The Monster Ball Tour

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 this paper was to shed light on how Lady Gaga affects her fans, not only through her music, but through social media and being personal with them. They use a passionate tone in their paper to convey to the audience that this is something important to them, and to get people interested also. The paper begins with an introduction to Lady Gaga’s career, which took off in 2008, goes on to talk about her music and achievements, and then her relationship with her fans via social media. It speaks of their extremely close-knit community and how Lady Gaga has changed many of their lives. Following, there is an analysis of fan identifications, what the true definition of…

performed Bad Romance and Born This Way from her new 2016 album titled Joanne. During her performance, she didn't disappoint her fans, whom she called her "little monsters," by performing authentic fan hits like A Million Reasons, Just Dance, Telephone, and Poker Face. In addition, she patriotically sang excerpts from God Bless America, This Land Is Your Land and reciting part of the Pledge of Allegiance. The lyrics she chose from her songs for the fifteen minute performance reached out to her…

described in “Memory, Monsters, and Lady Gaga” by Victor P. Corona. He notes that Gaga has become the “first recording artist in history to have at least four number one hits from a debut album” (725). Corona also mentions that Lady Gaga was “followed by over seven million people on Twitter and was 2010’s second most “googled” celebrity in the U.S” (725). While Corona acknowledges her instant stardom, Michael A. Peters in “One the Edge of Theory: Lady Gaga, Performance and Cultural Theory”…

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…

Crack! The sound of the baseball hitting the bat and the sound of fans cheering the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball are wonderful sounds at a ball game. The smell of Popcorn and Cracker Jacks fills the air of Fenway Park. This is all great at any baseball game, but it’s most enjoyed when you're with a person you love. This all happened when I went on a trip to Boston, Massachusetts with my dad for his birthday. This experience started in Spotsylvania,Virginia where we were giving my dad…

the other soldiers up, ever. They would tell us to be there at three in the morning and then end up not being there until six or eight that night. But we would always be there on time because we knew we had to. The car ride onto Bragg was always slow and quiet with the sound of soft cries that I could never figure whether they were coming from my Mom, my sister or myself. My sister and I would always fight for the seat behind Daddy just so we could be closer to him for just a little bit longer…

at #5 on Pop radio and crowning the list of dance singles. It was one of Prince’s most enduring hits ever, a classic in the library of ‘80s pop. Sheila E. became a major star, and her success was another cornerstone in Prince’s burgeoning empire. With all these channels of output—Sheila E., the Time, Apollonia, his movie soundtrack and the B-sides—Prince still had leftover outtakes that made their way into the hands of other artists. One such beneficiary was Sheena Easton. Using the pseudonym…

Why I am raising my kids as gamer kids, not sports players On the surface, we seem like a fairly typical American family, by modern standards: I have a college degree and a full-time job in the insurance industry, and my husband stays at home to take care of our three kids (and will do the same for our fourth, who’s due in early August). We live in funky a 70’s house in the suburbs of Houston and drive a minivan. People who meet us often express surprise when they ask what we do “for fun” and…

The year 2001 was a big year for films, especially animated and book adaptations. With the critically acclaimed animated films like Shrek and Monsters Inc., that each made over $250 million worldwide (IMDb, 2001). Along with animated movies, the two top grossing films in 2001 were based off two separate, and very popular, book series, that already had huge following before they had even gone into production. The second highest grossing movie in 2001 was the first of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic…

experience that remotely influenced my writing because I aimed to prove that I could enjoy and excel in writing. I can still remember the first writing assignment I had for my 10th grade literature class because it was the only A I ever received in her class. The assignment was for us to write about a struggle we faced growing up. I remember wanting to chose something sad and relatable so I wrote about bullying. I felt it was something everyone has gone through and something that would grab my…