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Lady Gaga on the cover of V Magazine and featured images

Madonna's recent essay in Harper magazine about her experiences as an aspiring artist in New York City, in particular how she was raped at knife point

This article lists examples of how Cosmo magazine is becoming more feminist in its content and whether or not this is intentional or "accidental".

The article discusses the impact of hyper-sexualisation in music videos and magazines and the negative effect they have on teen girls confidence, education and employment. The article also refers to 'video-vixens' such as Miley Cyrus and Rihanna who can be seen as 'toxic role models' according to writer Liz Jones.

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."

This article in xxl magazine discusses rapper Childish Gambino's recent Instagram pictures, handwritten notes explaining his fears, "I'm afraid of the future" for example, and how this "real" moment affects the potential of his forth coming album, and whether it makes him seem more genuine or not

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 is an article from the British magazine "Look", Its dicussing how Adele turned down an 12 million pound deal to replace Cheryl Cole as the face of Loreal. Adele says no because she doesn't want to be associated with a brand for fear of 'selling out'. I though this went well with our discussions of authenticity; unlike other artists Adele money comes 100% from the sale of her music which I think is both impressive and admirable.

I thought this was interesting because by adressing the idea of "selling out," Adele demonstrates what she considers "fake" about other pop artists. It gives insight into how we see authenticity as opposing commercialism and supporting brand names in the music industry. It also shows another dimension of why the public considers Adele an authentic artist.

'Miley Cyrus Vogue Cover Won't Twerk for Anna Wintour' Because of her atrocious display at the VMAS, The Editor-in-Chief of Vogue. Anna Wintour has decided to cut Miley's chance to appear on the cover of the most prestigious fashion magazine. This article explains more and how this once in a life time opportunity could have helped her career escalate, instead, it might just help ruin it.

Rolling Stone Miley Cyrus for the racy cover of the Oct. 10 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Miley also talks about her VMA's performances and how that now people expect her to twerk with her tongue lashing out and interestingly she said she would never do it again.