Japanese pop culture

Female pop stars have been a force to reckon with within the modern music industry and have dominated music charts around the globe. Each female pop star creates her own unique sounds, lyrics and catchy music to entice a fan base to follow them. However, are female pop stars really that different? Jennifer Lena argues in "Chapter 2: Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass and Bebop Jazz" that "music histories are full of hints that there is a pattern to the evolution of communities of sound"…

50 Facts About Little Mix: Little Mix - Group of four small British girls with BIG voices stormed into musical world in December 2011 with their impressive debut singles “Cannonball” which topped in UK singles chart and gains huge popularity in Ireland. Apart from their featured appearance in ‘X Factor’, Little Mix discography has 2 Studio Albums, 10 singles and 13 Music Videos. This group of four singing girls joined together for the TV series X Factor in its eight series. They went on to…

“A rumor, is a specific (or topical) proposition for belief, passed along from person to person, usually by word of mouth, without secure standards of evidence being present” (Allport, Postman, 1965, p. ix).This quote is quite notable and important when relating it with the main theory to be discussed for the purpose of this paper, which is labeling theory. How? Both a rumor and a label require no scientific proof for them to be used. To clarify, a rumor as well as a label could be based off…

Two of the most unique and influential new art movements of the twentieth century were pop art and abstract expressionism. While they both emerged roughly ten years apart, in the 1950’s and the 1940’s respectively; on the surface they’re two vastly different though, in reality they are more alike than they may seem. Abstract expressionism is what most would think of when they hear the words “abstract art.” When you first look at a work of abstract expressionism there seems to be no…

A Mother In Mannville Narrative He has a mother. She left him. What kind of sick person would deprive a child from having a family. It probably wouldn't have been the best family, but it would've been his. While I was still trying to process what Jerry had told me, he spoke. "Did something happen? Are you okay?" His eyes focused on me. "Yes, sorry. I just lost my train of thought," I lied. I, not wanting to continue talking about his mother, quickly changed the subject. "Anyway, I want…

Claes Oldenburg Who is Claes Oldenburg? Claes Thure Oldenburg is an American sculptor, painter, and pop artist, known as the, “reigning king of Pop sculpture since the early 1960’s.” Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Gösta Oldenburg and Sigrid Elisabeth; due to his father being a member of the Swedish foreign service, Claes and his family moved quite often. Brother of Richard Oldenburg a well-known art historian whom of which was director of the Museum of…

Paul Rand: Graphic Design Paul Rand was a graphic designer, born as Peretz Rosenbaum in Brooklyn, New York. He showed artistic talent from the time he was just a child. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew and so he did not have the approval of his father with his art as drawing the human figure was looked down upon. He used newspaper cartoon strips as his early inspiration for his sketches. He decided he wanted to be a painter and studied art at Pratt Institute. He began to have doubts about…

Since Lady Gaga’s introduction in the mainstream music platform in 2008, she has remained a constant changing force in Pop. Moreover, her first single, Just Dance marked her as an upcoming pop star, and the second single Poker Face asserted her status in the mainstream society. As a result, with time, Gaga could influence the world of politics, fashion, pop art, fashion and pop music (Darmayasa 4). Even though she is blunt about her beliefs, Lady Gaga crafts her perceptions in her music videos…

The genre I have chosen is Rock. Common instruments used in Rock music are mostly amplified instruments, like the electric guitar and electric bass. Rock also uses strong baseline and driving rhythms. Rock music, which was developed from rock ‘n’ roll, originated from the late 1940’s in the United States. It was influenced by country and blues music that started making a new sound using electric guitars and a balanced drum beat, which was a faster beat and rhythm instead of a slow one. Rock…

Pierce the Veil is an emo;post hardcore band from San Diego, California. There are 4 members in the band including Vic Fuentes, Mike Fuentes, Jaime Preciado, and Tony Perry. Pierce The Veil is the best Emo band in today's generation. In 2007 they came out with their first album A flair for the dramatic and in 2010 their album Selfish Machines came out. Despite this, their biggest breakthrough was in 2012 with the release of their album Collide with The Sky. It had reached number one on the Top…