The Fame Ball Tour

star’s textual presence and its place in society one must look into “how stars operate as a financial and ideological system within the film and entertainment industries” (423). Therefore, understanding how celebrities construct and change their image to the public can help one understand the reason for Lady Gaga’s transformation. From music to acting, this became a gateway to reinvent her star text. Lady Gaga’s calculated transformation from pop-heavy “manufactured” celebrity persona to an accredited and conventional artist has helped her effectively reflect her true identity. To cultivate a loyal, supportive, and loving body of followers doesn’t come easy nowadays to most celebrities. And like many other pop sensations, Lady Gaga’s rise to fame did not come in two days. Gaga’s love for music started at an early age of four when “she learned to play songs on…

Rihanna scores number one in the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Digital Single Awards list with over 100 million units being streamed and downloaded, Billboard reported. On Wednesday, July 1, RIAA announced that the "FourFiveSeconds" singer is the first artist enlisted to have exceeded the recording association's 100 million albums threshold. With RIAA's counted download sales and high demand streams in U.S, the Chairman and CEO of the association, Cary Sherman, released a…

Chatting with Celebrities: A Rhetorical Analysis Revision “Making Monsters: Lady Gaga, Fan Identification, and Social Media,” by Melissa A. Click, Hyunji Lee and Holly Willson Holladay, is a work pertaining to how Lady Gaga’s social media presence makes her relationship with her fans more intimate and personal. Dr. Click is an assistant professor (“Melissa Click”), and Dr.’s Lee & Holladay are graduate teaching assistants (“Lee”)(“Holladay”), all at the University of Missouri. Their purpose in…

Lady Gaga and Her Magnificent Drone Army Sets the Super Bowl On Fire By Shreya Shah With millions of eyes watching, Lady Gaga threw a magnetic performance which pierced deep into the hearts of all Americans. With massive amounts of glitter and light, Lady Gaga mesmerized her audience and struck hard with her underlying political message. Framed by the drones, Gaga impressively soared down from the roof of the stadium drawing the audience's attention. The Half Time…

Miley Cyrus says "Hannah Montana" messed her up (-- removed HTML --) Miley Cyrus, 24, has grown up in the public eye and has recently come forward about how playing the title character in “Hannah Montana” messed with her head. Miley says the boundaries between her onscreen persona and her actual self became so intensely blurred that her "psyche was damaged." The reality of fame (-- removed HTML --) The singer sat down with CBS Sunday Morning and spoke candidly about how “being Hannah…

Josh Bahlmann 17 April 2018 Banzai Babe Ruth Review Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination is an extreme narrative that accounts for the events of an attempted goodwill tour of Japan by some of the United State’s Major League Baseball’s top talent ballplayers. The book covers much of the brainstorming and motivation behind the tour’s goals and ambitions as well as the events that occurred on the field while at the same time making connections of those event’s influences on…

Sims would dance on a board or a stage covered with sand. The sand created sounds of grit and produced very audible and distinct brushes. Sims improvised and was did not concern himself with steps because all that mattered was the sound. Sims never achieved the same level of fame as many of the other tappers on this list however; he tutored Gregory Hines and was the unofficial ambassador of tap dance for the U.S. State Department. With that title he was about to tour the world. f. Gregory Hines…

copyright value of his own songs was estimated to be $ 100 million. However, he made most of his money from other artist’s songs, particularly those from ‘The Beatles’. Michael started owning music rights in the early 80s when he bought the catalogues of ‘Sly and the Family Stone’. Thereafter, he purchased a series of classic singles, including ‘Shake Rattle and Roll’, ‘Runaround Sue’, ‘Great Balls of Fire’, and ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’’, among others. His greatest break came in November 1984…

when neither of them were even near the remote. “My husband is a total skeptic but even he wondered about that.” Tiffani states when recalling the remote incident.. While on the staircase of the Stanley on a nightly ghost tour, tourists John and Jessica Mausling took lots of pictures to commemorate their experience. When going back through all of these photos they caught what seems to be a girl in a white gown that looked like it belonged in the early 1900’s. Nobody on the tour happened to…

The Tour manager Richard Cole organized their first North American tour at the end of the year. Their debut album, Led Zeppelin, was released in the US during the tour on January 12th 1969 and peaked at number 10 on the Billboard chart. It was also released in the UK, where it peaked at number 6, on March 31st. In their first year, Led Zeppelin completed four US and four UK concert tours, and also released their second album, Led Zeppelin II. The album was mostly recorded on the road at…