Pop

Rising pop singer Becky G. is about to showcase her talent in acting, as she now becomes a part of Fox's second season of Empire. Latino Post reported that she will play the role of Valentina. Becky G. graced an interview with Entertainment Weekly where she spilled some information about her role and it is related to the character of Cookie (Taraji P. Henson). She said, "Well, I play Valentina, and let's just put it this way: they were calling me baby Cookie on set. I'm feisty. Like, the Becky…

accustomed to lies is an audacious move that requires stern commitment. I have wondered time and time again that how did we get to the point where manipulation has become the norm; sincerity and irony have almost become synonymous. On the part of the pop artistes, I see a conundrum of insincerity that is necessitated by an audience that has developed “itchy ears” for anything authentic. The artistes have now become seeker-friendly; movies, music and other works of art are presented to align with…

Transcendentalism In Today's Pop Culture “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great transcendentalist who shared many of his beliefs in his writings. Transcendentalism is the philosophy that promotes the understanding that there is goodness in nature and in people, and it is supported in…

Pop art is one of the defining art movements of the twentieth century; now being promptly recognisable and generally understood, it is much a part of popular culture as art history. Pop Art had a great number of artists who explored their work through this movement. One artist being David Hockney, who is an English Pop/Modernist Artist, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer born in 1937 Bradford, UK. During the Pop Art movement, Hockney painted his most recognisable and…

It seems there would be some specific elements which have inspired Sum41 in some ways. 1. The First appearance of Emotional Rock. In 2000, when Sum41 released EP, ‘Half hour of power’, it was a period in which meaning of music changed. Lots of pop musicians, such as Britney spears and Backstreet Boys, whose songs were recorded with full of virtual instruments and addictive melodies caught people’s attention while previous generation of music was based on real instruments, and melody was…

The AGO exhibition for the Super Real: Pop Art from the AGO collection presented a variety of artwork from large silkscreen image to a cardboard burger sculpture sitting in the middle of the space. The exhibition has a small collection but has iconic pieces that are central to the story of the pop art movement of the 1960s. The works that stood out the most is the Andy Warhol’s 1963 Elvis I and II silkscreen painting. It showed 2 Elvis’ on one side with colour, then another 2 Elvis’ on one side…

Trevor Dunn said that “Pop culture is not about depth. It is about marketing, supply and demand, and consumerism.” This is a well put statement because when something falls into the category of popular culture, it is mass produced in efforts to make the most profit possible. Popular culture is rarely produced from moral intentions. When a rapper mentions black rights in his music, is it because he legitimately cares about the issue? Or did his manager encourage the lyrics because there was a…

Modern Art and Modern Fame Pop art, the product of fame and modern art, was created by Andy Warhol. Warhol’s early explorations in art was a result of catching chorea, making him bedridden for extended periods of time. His mother, another artist, taught him how to draw. His career was filled with ups and down, but this gave way to the birth of pop art. Influenced by the lesser known British artist who invented the start of pop art, Warhol made an Americanized version of pop art. Warhol used art…

progression that makes a pop song a pop song. In a chapter in the textbook The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis, it talks about the popular music chord progression. The textbook says the chord progression is I V VI IV (Clendinning). This progression makes the popular music stand out and catchy to some. The textbook says that these chords are the base for the song and that all a musician has to do it repeat them in any way they would like and the song would sound like a pop song. Since…

movement emerged under the title of pop art. To create pop art the artists would combine many images from popular culture. This included things such as advertisements or images from comic books and even things as simple as soup cans.. This material would sometimes be isolated and combined with other images that would have no visible correlations to each other. Pop art was widespread reaching countries from the United States to Japan. This rising culture of pop art gave way to two of the greatest…