Pop music

Auto-Tune In the reading “Seduced by ‘Perfect’ pitch: How Auto- Tune Conquered Pop Music” the reading had many main points for example does society like auto-tune, for some they don’t mind artists using auto-tune but some of the older generations do because they listened to music before there was such a thing called Auto- Tune they can pick it more then todays generation can. Auto- Tune was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand who is a classically trained flautist, who spend most of his younger days…

Outline Research Question: Music plays a big role in today's society. There are many different forms of music and it is often categorized into genres. The most generic and arguably the most popular would be pop music (hence the name). Pop music has evolved over the decades but there seems to be a growth in the sexual content in this type of music. As pop music is incredibly popular, what are the affects of this sexualization on teenagers and young adults? If the main source of music young adults…

According to Arnold and Leavis, conservative theorists with elitist conceptions of culture, low (popular) culture is dull entertainment to be enjoyed by uneducated and uncritical “low-brow” hoards. For the past three decades pop music has been a part of a large cultural resistance to feminism, as there are certain songs that are in sync with feminist goals and objectives. As Jones suggests, “some talented artists, such as Beyoncé, break through this onslaught of problematic tunes by producing…

Sir Mix-A-Lot graced the music scene in 1992 with his heartfelt tune ‘Baby Got Back’. He captured the hearts of millions with lines such as, ‘Cause you notice that butt was stuffed deep in the jeans she’s wearing. I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring. Oh baby, I wanna get with ya and take your picture. My homeboys tried to warn me, but that butt you got makes me so horny. Since then, he has been an infamous part of an ever-growing pop music trend- using misogyny to sell singles to the teenage…

My love for K-Pop began years before Psy ever erupted onto the American pop music scene with his ever so popular song “Gangnam Style”. To be exact, I have been a long time fan of the genre for roughly seven years now and am still to this very day an avid listener and fan of K-Pop. As a young fourteen-year-old at the time, I remember wanting to search for new music to listen to and had discovered K-Pop music videos largely by accident by simply clicking on recommended videos on YouTube. One of…

Throughout its years of prevalence in the popular music industry, the disco genre has always polarised opinions. The subject of some quite literally explosive protests, many have hated disco for its supposed vapidity and homogeneity, and few have defended it. I will assert that the “disco sucks” movement was a populist declaration of difference and supposedly superior taste, musical purism built on racist, homophobic and hyper-masculine ideologies. My essay will be based on ideas from Richard…

have decided to analyze is Formation, by Beyonce. Beyonce is a worldwide sensation in the pop music industry as well as in feminist culture. Beyonce originally started out in a singing group called Destiny’s Child, where she first became well known; once the group split, Beyonce started her own musical career and has not looked back since. In 2008, eleven years after dating, Beyonce and rapper and music producer Jay-Z married. Three years later, Beyonce became pregnant with their daughter,…

written and produced by The Chainsmokers, and has been #1 on US’ Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard) and #5 on US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard). I have chosen to specifically study the music video of this piece, which was released on February 16, 2017. The lyrics to this song and the characters of the music video imply a relationship between two individuals who are presumably lovers. In the piece, the male in this relationship sings to the female who is struggling to uphold certain…

But the cinema of the body implies also a social gest. We see this in how people react to the monk: sometimes with indifference, but other times they stare, try to interact with him, see him as a performer. We are not the only seers in the film, the people in it are voyeurs of something they do and see everyday (walking), but the fact that the monk’s walking is at a different temporality breaks the sensory motor link and affects us: makes us think the unthought. The ceremonialization of the body…

normal or expected of females and males, one of which is through POP music. I have been guilty of listening too and enjoying the four songs I have picked. Since pop music is so upbeat and well “popular” I listen to it quite often it was not until asked to write this essay that I have ever really thought about the lyrics and message in these songs. They mostly talk about men being obsessed with the female body and sex. Most popular music portrays that men only want women for sex and don’t look at…