Pop music

of all time. Nobody in history of music was as popular as the Beatles. Everyone knows the Beatles. You don 't have to love them, but you do have to respect them. Michael Stipe from REM once said “The Beatles are elevator music.” To which Ringo Starr responded “If it weren 't for the Beatles, REM would still be taking the stairs.” The Beatles are one of the most iconic cultural legacies of the 20th Century and their influence shows itself in contemporary music and culture, which could not…

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 increasingly blurred” (Goodwin 32). At concerts, British bands played their already recorded electronic music, “integrating the ‘recorded’ and ‘live’ moments” (ibid). Therefore, concerts became more about the live performance, instead of the…

In a sex-dominated society like present day America, the content is prevalent in all media, specifically music. Music has always been sexual, it is just that as sex became less taboo, people were more free to express themselves, but there were still restrictions set in place, which made people more inclined to break them. This is shown in music for all audiences from adults to children, but there is one main difference in the way that the content is expressed, and that is cultural. White and…

“Hard Out Here”, Lily Allen addresses and forwards the issues of misogyny and sexism in the music industry through her lyrics used in the song, the ironic use of black dancers to make a statement, and imagery in her…

Meghan Trainor is a recent American pop star defined by her sense of empowerment as she urges listeners to reject body shaming. Encouraging positive body image is becoming a societal norm in the U.S. and the Nashville singer 2014 debut single, “All About That Bass,” help persuade her audience that bigger bodies are better. The objectification of larger bodies contribute towards a feeling that there is a criteria for beauty. Similarly, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” is part of a tradition of hip hop…

students, leaving them without a moral compass, and creating a void that can easily be filled with demagoguery. Along the way, Bloom staunchly defends elitism and ethnocentrism, attacks feminism, and lays out a critic of pop music that attacks not the just the immorality of the music itself, but also the industry that pushes the drug of rock. Each of these points is crafted largely through what Bloom considers a close reading of the western canon, the classical texts of the ancients which…

#75 in U.S. and #2 in Britain. This song was good in style, but still brought issue in politics and contemporary life which our parent never liked. At Woodstock, Pete Townshend called “My Generation” millions of parents thought it is simply a bad music. This song started with an artless pounding of two chords, and it ended with loud and chaotic banging of guitar and drums. People thought lyrics was more worse because of how he sing that song like “c-c-c-cold’ and “f-f-f-f-fade away”. Sometime…

sixth grade, I was prepared and excited to learn. I was prepared because before sixth grade, I learned how to play the flute, recorder, and the piano. Which created an advantage for me when I learned to the violin, since I already knew how to read music. Therefore I had minimal difficulties learning a new instrument, in contrast with my peers who never played an instrument before. While I did have minimal difficulties playing the violin, it was still baffling at times, but not as much as it…

single “Cruise” was released in 2012, Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line have been busy proving themselves to the music industry with their incredible fusion of country, rock, hip-hop, and pop. The duo has earned several awards-including three consecutive Vocal Duo of the Year titles from both Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music. Their third studio album, Dig Your Roots, was just recently released in August 2016 including songs like “Grow Old”. “Grow Old”…

Pop music has been around for a longtime, and it has become a very popular genre around the world. In 1958, in the city of Bay City, Michigan, a girl was born, who grew up to be a Pop sensation, and become a legend in the genre. She was a straight A student in high school, and was part of the cheerleading squad. She then was offered a full scholarship to the University of Michigan to the dance program because of the outstanding job she did in high school. While going to Michigan, Madonna was…