Disco

Ariana Grande is a twenty three year old television actress better known as a pop music singing sensation. Ms. Grande began singing and acting at a young age, which landed her a role in a Broadway play before she hit sixteen. In 2010, she landed her big break. Starring in the Nickelodeon series, Victorious, as Cat Valentine, she played as a “goofy aspiring singer.” (biography.com) Ariana Grande dropped her single “The Way” which went triple platinum in 2013. After her single, she went on to…

in order to get other people to like me. Allow me to set the scene; it's eighth grade, and two of my closest friends have entered what you might call an "emo phase." They've discovered the joys of tumblr, SuperWhoLock, and Hot Topic. Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, My Chemical Romance- these bands all become staples, favorites, and suddenly they're going to concerts left and right. At first, I tried to ignore it, but as my best friend began to slip into it as well, I was terrified…

styles within rock. The unifying factor between music of the late Sixties and Seventies rock is the hippie aesthetic, not only in terms of the perspective of the audience but also the artists themselves. It goes on to show how styles like punk and disco challenged hippie aesthetic rock at the end of the Seventies, and helps us understand why musicians and fans rebelled against these new styles that negated certain essential parts of the hippie aesthetic. Progressive rock is…

Are you looking for the easiest decades to dress up as best Halloween costumes? Halloween is just around the corner and yet, look at you, panicking over your costume. Keep calm and let us do the rest of the worries about your party costume. We hate to break it to you but dressing up as a little sexy pumpkin or a seductive nurse is so overrated. If you don't want eyes rolling at you, why not consider the costumes of the decades instead? It can be any of the fashion trends through 20's, 30's,…

The song “I Got the Juice” by Dream Junkies in formatted by tricky wordplay and incredible use of these fire spitting rappers to convey a certain message. A message of hope and inspiration. One showing how these men who were lost have now found their own way and are running with it. Their way doesn’t exactly line up with what the culture today says about them but it shows how they have raised above the challenge of stereotypes and limits due to their race and social class and are now setting the…

found interesting is the “condom code” originated from the AIDS epidemic, which this code is still posted in a majority if not all gay inspired venues such as gay spas and gay bathhouses (Kurtz and Inciardi 290). I will never forget the “four Ds: disco, drugs, ‘dish’ and ‘dick’” (Kurtz and Inciardi…

The years of the 1970’s is famous for the groovy bell-bottoms, the rise of disco and how could anyone forget, the invention of video games. However, it wasn’t all fun and games. It was an era of economic struggle and cultural change. Many American groups fought for social and political rights, one being a combat for women rights. Women are being objectified by men and politics. They did not have the right to vote, to hold public office, to have reproductive rights, to work or to have fair wages,…

Flashback again to some of the most memorable moments from primary school. Do you remember going to someone's birthday party at the bowling alley after school and getting “absolutely mortal on mixed Slush Puppies”? Or buying 50 Pixy Sticks at the school disco and “being absolutely off your face all night”? Buzzfeed certainly does. With over a million views - and the count still rapidly rising, this one site is perpetuating and the passing off this myth as the truth. Leeching off human…

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a tattoo is defined as “an indelible mark or figure fixed upon the body by insertion of pigment under the skin or by production of scars.” Tattooing and body modification has been practice dating back to Eurasian Neolithic farmers in 4000 BC, thought to be a healing remedy based on the particular placement on the arms, legs and throughout the body consisting of various dots and lines. In today’s culture, the idea of getting a tattoo has shifted from…

influence of psychedelic drugs by artist that explained the impairment of reality because of the use of such drugs. Psychedelic rock in the 60’s created a counterculture as it reflected those ideals of the American youth. The 70’s were popular for the Disco genre. This was after things in the American society went downhill, as crime rates, and unemployment went up along with other economic problems. It created a very dull environment for those who lived in it which made it necessary for a coping…