MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video

Seven time Grammy winner Taylor Swift has dominated the music industry the past few years. 2014 was even dubbed 'The year of Taylor Swift ' because of all she did. Swift came from being bullied in high school to now playing sold out arenas and stadiums. She has done things in music that have never been done before. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. She spent her early years in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania on her family 's Christmas tree farm. Her first…

known for making pop music “weird.” Five albums and eight years later, Lady Gaga continues to rock the entertainment industry not only with her excellence in music but most recently in her debut acting career, therefore, ultimately rewriting her star text. The body of work, authorized and calculated image construction, publicity, and audience participation one sees in Lady Gaga can be defined as her star text (Jackson). A star text can include a celebrity 's albums, movies, music videos,…

Controversy Both Taylor Swift and Kanye West have had a bumpy relationship together over the past couple years which led to this controversy. On September 13th, 2009, Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift acceptance award during the MTV Video Music Awards. A year later in the 2010 MTV VMA Awards, Taylor Swift performs a forgiving song in tribute the incident called Innocent. Although Kanye West has been inconsistent with his apologies to Taylor Swift over…

Kanye West has mastered this approach. Before the 2009 VMAs incident, where Kanye ran on stage to tell Taylor Swift that Beyoncé deserved the award for Best Female Video, he had already achieved both phenomenal critical and commercial success. Kanye also had already practiced changing styles from album to album, most notably with his 2008 release of the introspective, melancholic, and auto-tune-heavy 808s…

December 12, 1980, from a young age Aguilera knew she wanted to become a singer. Aguilera memorized all of the lyrics to the Sound of Music at age five, she also appeared on Star Search when she was nine years old. From the ages of twelve to fourteen she did the show The New Mickey Mouse Club that was Aguilera big break in her career musically, the executive of a music producer heard her sing on the show and gave her a huge record deal. During the negotiations Aguilera record deal she decided to…

In the starting years of MTV, the majority of bands that used the new medium were British. British bands had already been experimenting with the style and fashion, “experimenting with the emergent medium for some time and arrived with stylish videos in hand” (Cateforis 54). Unlike American bands, these British bands had already adapted to a style suitable for television. After punk music, British bands kept the electronic instruments and “distinctions between automated and human performance were…

3 Reasons Why Beyonce is Overlooked at the Grammy’s At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards held last February 2017, there were a number of categories where Beyonce and Adele went head to head. Both artists were nominated for song of the year, best solo pop performance, record of the year, and album of the year. However, out of four categories Adele took home the Grammy. Although Adele’s voice and talent is undeniably great, Beyonce’s Lemonade is certainly one of the most artistic albums of all time.…

influenced the music industry and popular culture through her artistry, especially in songwriting, and entrepreneurship. She is an advocate of artists' rights and women's empowerment. Swift began professional songwriting at age 14. She signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and achieved prominence as a country pop singer with the albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008). Their singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" were crossover successes on country and…

Her music can be described to be a mixture of R&B, funk, dance, hip-hop and pop. It is hard to classify her as just one genre when she is a mixture of all of them at once. It is said, that Mariah Carey is one of her music influences (Arian Grande Facts), which explains how she usually creates lyrics with such wide vocal ranges like Mariah Carey. Ariana is also known…

Michael Jackson I have never seen that podium with the words “KING OF POP” Yes, I am talking about the man who is in the heart of thousands of people, The Michael Jackson. There are so many artist is the world, they are performing, making their own music, they have lots of creativeness but no one can be like him and no one called with this name “KING OF POP”. In India people always says that “You cannot make an artist, it comes by born”. And you just need to find the artist behind it. And every…