Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

Besides , her first debut album also released in October. The album has achieved its success as selling 39,000 copies in its first week and had sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. It was rising to no.5 on billboard 200. More popular songs were followed such as “Our Song”, “Teardrops On My Guitar”,"Should've Said No" and "Picture to Burn". These songs have been highly recommended on Billboard Hot Country Song Charts. Girls are loving with her music and she has promoted her album in the USA…

impact Taylor Swift has had on the music industry. Her music, songwriting, and attitude toward it all deserve a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From her critically acclaimed lyrics to the sold-out-in-minutes World Tours, this young singer/ song-writer is making leaps and bounds in music. So far she has five studio albums that have been released every two years. The media may swarm her for her personal life but she is an artist that is all about the music and positively influencing her…

Paramore is an alternative rock band. I mainly chose this band due to the fact that it was the first band I had ever listened to. Whenever I hear their songs, it brings nostalgic memories of how I used their music to express the antsy feelings I felt back in middle school. It allowed me to express the depression and suicidal thoughts I felt without harming myself. The songs that affected me the most and helped me get through tough times were “Playing God “, “Feeling Sorry” and “Ignorance “. The…

Chapter 15- Rock Traditions and the Business of Change The music industry itself developed and introduced a new idea in selling albums. Starting from the 1970s, with the DIY revolution, to the 1990s, featuring digital recording, prices and accessibility to digital music became cheaper and easier to use. Thus, electronic distribution was the first to revolutionize. Internet sales thrived as compact disks became less of a desire for people to travel to buy; the sales of physical CDs declined…

hip-hop is a name that was bestowed unto mainstream music, between the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s. This time period was shaped by popular figures such as Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, NWA (Niggas with Attitude), Rakim, Slick Rick and MC Hammer. This era revolutionized “gangsta rap”, changing it from sub-conscience music to pro-violence music; however political issues and criticism of the African-American community was still prevalent in their music. Between the 1980’s and 1990’s, the most…

As the 1980s dawned, pop-influenced country music was the dominant style, through such acts as Kenny Rogers, Eddie Rabbitt, and Crystal Gayle. Crystal Gayle best known for her 1977 country-pop crossover hit, the jazz-flavored ballad, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Kenny Rogers’s crossover success was important; his lush, easy listening productions and smooth croons showed that country stars could conquer the pop audience, if produced and marketed correctly. By the beginning of the '80s,…

Illustrated ("Shel Silverstein Bio.com"). During his career at Playboy, he began creating his own cartoon books, such as “Take Ten” and” Grab Your Socks”. Silverstein soon branched out into music, creating his first album “Hairy Jazz” in 1959("Shel Silverstein Biography"). Although Shel was immersed in his music career, in 1963, he met book editor Ursula Nordstrom, who convinced him to begin writing children’s books ("Shel Silverstein Bio.com"). In the same year, Silverstein published his first…

Jordan Lee MUS 1006 History of Rock and Roll Final Paper Pop, a popular music genre that has originated from the Western World that has continued its relevance in the 21st century. It began to be a softer alternative to rock and roll in the 1950s and eventually became one of the most popular genre by the youth; which is where it got its name ‘pop’ from. Pop music is somewhat a contrast to rock and roll. Rock identifies with a particular subculture while pop tends to cut across audiences…

Alternative Rappers? Another way that Outkast challenged notions of authenticity was through their defiance towards conceptions of performative blackness within Hip Hop. Here, I will use E. Patrick Johnson’s framework, as well as how authenticity is constructed based on sound, look and feel in tandem, to illustrate how OutKast resisted this limited view of Hip Hop legitimacy (Grazian). Perceptions of performative blackness connected to sound, look and feel stem from urban inner-city ghetto life…

is Mine” was nominated for three Grammys, and “in 2008, Billboard ranked 'The Boy Is Mine’ 54th on its All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs chart” (“The Boy Is Mine (song)”). Lastly, Shania Twain wrote and recorded another top charter “You’re Still the One” which was the third greatest hit of 1998. “You’re Still the One” was from Twain’s album Come on Over which sold 40 million copies worldwide (Erlewine). While my mom watched most of these shows and listened to their music, my dad was more tuned into…