Teen pop

When we think about a summer anthem that makes us want to dance and sing all at the same time “one dance” is very likely to pop up in the head of most people. Everywhere you turn you can hear this sexy, provocative song playing, and as hard as you try it hard to not sing along. “One dance” has received many awards this summer, and Billboard, a popular charting company has even named it the song of the summer. It has been number one on the chart for a consecutive 14 weeks. It keeps at No. 2 on…

As the applause began to thunder, they stood up hand-in-hand and took a bow. Becca’s smile was soon radiating throughout the audience. Caleb was the first person on his feet clapping with such fervor that he inspired the entire audience into a standing ovation. Becca was half blind from the bright lights shining in her face, but from where Caleb stood she could see him clearly. Her heart was so full in that moment; she could have stayed right there and been completely happy for the rest of her…

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…

Female pop stars have been a force to reckon with within the modern music industry and have dominated music charts around the globe. Each female pop star creates her own unique sounds, lyrics and catchy music to entice a fan base to follow them. However, are female pop stars really that different? Jennifer Lena argues in "Chapter 2: Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass and Bebop Jazz" that "music histories are full of hints that there is a pattern to the evolution of communities of sound"…

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…

PAPER 1 TITLE – ‘INTERVENTION OF POP CULTURE IN INDIAN CULTURE’ INTRODUCTION This paper mainly deals with westernisation or the spread of a particular culture or among the individuals in the society. Pop culture is nothing but what you listen to, what you read , what you wear and how you speak. Some examples are gangnam style, whatsapp , Facebook , selfie and so on. Indian culture is very different from other foreign cultures. It is rich with its own values and traditions. But nowadays more of…

“A rumor, is a specific (or topical) proposition for belief, passed along from person to person, usually by word of mouth, without secure standards of evidence being present” (Allport, Postman, 1965, p. ix).This quote is quite notable and important when relating it with the main theory to be discussed for the purpose of this paper, which is labeling theory. How? Both a rumor and a label require no scientific proof for them to be used. To clarify, a rumor as well as a label could be based off…

Two of the most unique and influential new art movements of the twentieth century were pop art and abstract expressionism. While they both emerged roughly ten years apart, in the 1950’s and the 1940’s respectively; on the surface they’re two vastly different though, in reality they are more alike than they may seem. Abstract expressionism is what most would think of when they hear the words “abstract art.” When you first look at a work of abstract expressionism there seems to be no…

A Mother In Mannville Narrative He has a mother. She left him. What kind of sick person would deprive a child from having a family. It probably wouldn't have been the best family, but it would've been his. While I was still trying to process what Jerry had told me, he spoke. "Did something happen? Are you okay?" His eyes focused on me. "Yes, sorry. I just lost my train of thought," I lied. I, not wanting to continue talking about his mother, quickly changed the subject. "Anyway, I want…

in the minds and hearts of 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…