Set in an all-female jungle paradise, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” music video features dancing, rapping, fruit, skimpy outfits, and endless bum-shaking. According to Billboard, music videos quickly became an integral part of pop culture after their debut on television in the early 1980s. In her article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey explains how “cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking” (17) by focusing “attention on the human form” (17). Nicki Minaj’s…
The first-ever Nickelodeon’s HALO Hall of Fame Awards will be given to none other than, Justin Bieber! The recognition honours celebrity who helps and leads others by making the world a better place. The 21-year-old star will be recognized for his works at Make-A-Wish foundation to grant the wishes of children with serious conditions. Also, the all out support he’s giving to Pencils of Promise, an organization that works to build schools in the developing world. According to Variety, Nick…
Fun To Eat Ice Cream, Face Suri Cruise So Covered Her age was already 10 years old, but Suri Cruise remains the child of celebrities are cute and adorable. Like any appearance, the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise is always a success being the center of attention of people who are in the vicinity. Long reportedly inaudible, this time one of the paparazzi's camera captured the moment of togetherness of the Queen and her mother. Reported by the Daily Mail, this pretty girl turns out to be…
Grace Kelly: An Iconic Actress Acting her way through her success, Grace Kelly, an American actress, caught her audience’s attention with her direct symbol of excitement in the film The Country Girl (Gevinson 659). She was known for all the shows she was in. Kelly changed the acting communities by her various performances and created the iconic characters that she was known for. After retiring her profession, she continued to help America through her fame. Grace Kelly, a talented American…
For this reading strategy, I am supposed to choose an actor/actress for the characters of the book, as long as choose a theme song as if it was going to be made into a movie. I read “This Is What Happy Looks Like” by Jennifer E. Smith. I chose five important characters from the book, to select actors for. The main character of the book was named Ellie O’Neill. Ellie is a practical seventeen year old who lives with her mom, and works at a local ice cream shop. She, along with most of the other…
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…
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…
When Shakira shimmied her way onto MTV in 2001 with a steamy video for a slick, cookie-cutter dance-pop song, some people associated the Colombian singer with her American pop-music contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. But the stylistic breadth of Shakira's music — elements of folk, Middle Eastern and traditional Latin styles over a foundation of rock and pop — gave her a degree of credibility the American teen queens lacked. What's more, when Shakira broke through in the United…
Lady Gaga covered John Lennon's 1971 classic "Imagine" at Azerbaijan's Baku Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremonies of the 2015 European Games. Gaga brought the massive crowd to a reverent silence with her rendition. The Mother Monster was sat comfortably behind a floral piano cascaded in a foliage of pink and purple pastel flowers. She took the giant stage by wowing the crowd with an impressive performance and gave audience a chill-inducing heights on the third verse, when her voice became…
It may be hard to believe, but it’s been a decade since Megan Fox was introduced to the world as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf in the first of a series of big-budget, increasingly tedious films about transforming cars that come from outer space. This role, though fairly straightforward, launched Fox into superstardom. In fact, there was a period of time when she was absolutely everywhere. She was in movies, on television, in magazines, on billboards. It seemed that you couldn’t go anywhere…