The Fame

When Shakira shimmied her way onto MTV in 2001 with a steamy video for a slick, cookie-cutter dance-pop song, some people associated the Colombian singer with her American pop-music contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. But the stylistic breadth of Shakira's music — elements of folk, Middle Eastern and traditional Latin styles over a foundation of rock and pop — gave her a degree of credibility the American teen queens lacked. What's more, when Shakira broke through in the United…

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 covered John Lennon's 1971 classic "Imagine" at Azerbaijan's Baku Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremonies of the 2015 European Games. Gaga brought the massive crowd to a reverent silence with her rendition. The Mother Monster was sat comfortably behind a floral piano cascaded in a foliage of pink and purple pastel flowers. She took the giant stage by wowing the crowd with an impressive performance and gave audience a chill-inducing heights on the third verse, when her voice became…

Singer and actress Lady Gaga is speaking out and revealing that she battles with depression and anxiety every single day, but somehow she finds a way to push through these hard times. US Magazine shared that while speaking out to Billboard Lady Gaga shared that this is something she deals with all the time and actually went on to say that the way people are obsessed with cell phones doesn’t help it. Lady Gaga is actually talking because she hopes that sharing will help her fans out. She doesn’t…

Lady Gaga shocked the nation when she presented herself at the MTV Music Awards wearing a dress made out of flank steak. The dress has a popular label “the meat dress.” The meat dress took people by storm many outraged, and interpretations were farfetched from what Gaga intended. I will be exploring a relationship between Gaga’s iconic meat dress photograph and a larger public culture. By emphasizing on the iconic aspects of this photo, significance, purpose, and various impacts it had to the…

Before Cosell’s Fame: While Howard Cosell was a true success for the future, there were other sports broadcasters who were very successful before Cosell’s time. Both radio and on-site sports broadcasting have come a long way from what it was during Cosell’s time, but his time wasn’t where broadcasting originality. Cosell was mainly known for his interviews with the late great Mohammed Ali, but he wasn’t the first broadcaster to focus on prize fighters. Although Mohammed Ali was one of the…

The Struggle for Fame Does one’s desire for greatness and fame sometimes override one’s decisions? The desire for recognition for one’s achievements lives in everyone; whether it is learning to ride a bike or getting accepted into college, everyone wants to be noticed for their hard work. Sometimes, the longing for attention obscures one’s objectivity, pushing them to make detrimental decisions. Odysseus, the hero in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey,displays an egotistical, boastful personality…

Induction into the Hall of Fame is the highest individual achievement in baseball. Each player strives to have his career recognized as one of the best of his era. Unfortunately, the sport of baseball has had many players who are willing to cheat the game in order to achieve this prestigious honor. Recently, the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs have distorted both the records and individual statistics of the game. This era, known as the Steroid Era, has come to an end with recent improvements…

Beowulf’s quest for fame relates to his culture's importance of having a well-known identity. The Anglo-Saxon society respected characteristics such as kinship, courage, and strength. Beowulf exhibits these characteristics and uses them as a means of becoming the story’s epic hero. He battles the monster Grendel and his mother, as well as the dragon, in order to prove his greatness and courage to his people. He even goes as far as to use only his bare hands in order to defeat Grendel because it…

In this collage, as you can see there are many moments that led to Kim Kardashian's fame. In the year 2014, Kim Kardashian was nominated for one of the one hundred most influential woman. Beforehand, Kim K. worked with several different celebrities as their assistant. Which is pictured above as a example where Paris Hilton says “Have you cleaned out my closet yet?” and Kim responds “Not yet, I will in five minutes.” Pictured above are a few of Kim’s marriages that she has been through,…