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In an interview this month with HungerTV, Cyrus stressed that she's in control of her image and the choices behind her music videos. She made an important point that she's probably more aware of what youth cultures want than corporate leaders are. But in order to make this point, she had to draw on stereotypes of a Jewish-controlled media, perhaps revealing anti-Semitism: "With magazines, with movies, it's always weird when things are targeted for young people yet they're driven by people that are like 40 years too old. It can't be like this 70 year old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear."

Here is an interview that questions whether there is gay artists in the music industry and more specifically the 'rap game' as the interviewed calls it. But can be considered as controversial is that he states that there is a 'gay mafia' and that they are controlling the hip hop scene. For instance he refers to Lady Gaga and how she is running with the gay community and she is winning!

Taylor Swift is renowned for her numerous short term relationships that lead to chart topping songs. Though in this interview she insists that she doesn't want be (isn't) the stereotypical girl who had a long chain of never ending boyfriends. In reality she of course contradicts herself by continuing to live up to this reputation of numerous boyfriends that she has made for herself.

A 2009 interview and cover shoot with Elle, which reflects on Gaga's art, her sexuality, and her relationship with her father.

An interview with Amanda Palmer, in which (towards the end) she responds to the New Yorker's article about her Kickstarter campaign.  

What was the point in bringing Adele into her body issues? I understand that the press are going to ask her about her weight, but i dont see why she should have to compare her body to that of someone elses to justify her weight gain.

What she says makes me angry, I think the reason no one comments on Adeles weight the same as Lady Gaga is because Adele doesn't pose in her underwear so people can see how thin she is and hope they chage their view of her. Adele always says she is who she is love it or hate it which I personally really admire. I saw an interview of Adele where she said her weight and the way she looked was irrelavant to her music and shes not interested in people liking her; its all about the music for Adele. Instead of comparing herself in terms of weight maybe Gaga could compare authenticity and talent which is surely more important.

I found this article really interesting because it gave an insight into Miley Cyrus herself and how she feels about her transformation rather than the hundreds of articles judging her without any context of Cyrus' intention. I liked the quote, where Cyrus stated that changing her hair effected everyone else more than her, I think it put the media fascination in an interesting light.

This an interview with one of the members of Ylvis who did the Fox song. This interview was used to ask Ylvis why they thought their video of the Fox was so popular

"Nothing else than being amused and laughing and having a good time." I really liked Vegard Ylvisaker's view on The Fox song. Since they started as a comedy group and have been doing this for years, he didn't set out for this to be superstardom but just wanted to make people laugh.

A posting about Beth Ditto.  After her interview with Hattersley, someone commented that she was promoting obesity.  Stewart writes about this comment.

A 2009 interview with Lady Gaga about feminism, sexuality, fame, etc.

An interview with Lady Gaga about her fashion and image

The Rolling Stone's interview with Miley Cyrus in which she attempts to explain her reasoning behind her VMA performance, the Wrecking Ball music video and ratchet culture.  

Ohhhhhhhhhhh snap. Robin literally blows all the blame on Miley with a small comment, and she sort of responds on the Ellen show

I couldn't find the entire interview with Ellen and Lady Gaga, but I did find the song she played.  I just wanted to see her outfit, from the Gray-Rosendale article we read.  

This YouTube video ties into the discussion about discrimination and post-racial america. By watching this video it gives an amazing insight from the point of view of the youth and how gay marriage is perceived today. It would have been great to find a similar interview with children of the same age from 30 years ago and compare the opinions, just to see how perspectives have changed over the past decades. But what i found most intriguing is that some of the kids reactions where of confusion but when they were asked why they thought gay marriage was weird or 'crazy' they didn't actually know why. Is this because they don't understand what is going on, or is it because they actually think it weird? 

Referencing a recent interview Lady Gaga had with Andy Cohen, this article discusses the validity of her proclaimed bisexuality, and whether it is simply made up for the sake of broadening her appeal to a wider audience

This is just brilliant, Miley Cyrus needs to take an African American studies class!!  The writer first conclusion is that Miley has a 'problematic view of what "black" is'. Well all her butt shaking, drug referencing and down right attitude seems to me like she obviously knows what shes doing. This article goes into depth via an interview with an African American Studies Professor and his opinion of Miley Cyrus and how her video 'We Can't Stop', appropriates black culture.

In class today, we talked about Beliebers and how Justin was such a big thing.  This is just an interview Justin has with Zach Galifianakis on his show "Between Two Ferns."  

A youtube news show about what the song "We Can't Stop" is really about. Has quotes from Miley in it from interviews

She talks about twerking with Ryan Seacrest. She says that she can do one thing and she can twerk. Also is doing song with Snoop Dogg. She may be appealing to Ratchet culture like in previous discussions