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A study of visits to online news stories found that Americans were 12 times as likely to visit an article about Miley Cyrus than Syria. This trend is despite news venues publishing 2.4 articles about Syria for every article about Cyrus.

Article about Gaga's performance of her new song along with a video of her performing it at the YouTube Music Awards. I found Gaga's promotion of her new album very interesting as every stage seems to have been carefully constructed and planned as to get the most amount of exposure.

Holy cow, Lady Gaga is a wreck in this video. Don't get me wrong; I love Gaga, and I think she's insanely talented. Her emotions are completely reflected in her voice, though, and it was totally affecting her pitch. I wonder what that was all about.

The style of this song and the way she sung it reminded me a lot of Lana Del Ray's style! Very interesting and quite beautiful.

Miley Cyrus's new video, "Wrecking Ball," is the most viewed video on Vimeo within its first 24 hours.

A satirical critique on the news coverage of Miley Cyrus's performance.  It's more about using pop culture as revenue than the actual performance.

Miley Cyrus is featured in Mike WiLL Made-It's new music video for "23." Caught my attention because someone posted this on Facebook, saying the following: "Miley Cyrus... No one wants to 'get like you.' Sorry sweetheart."

Ha! I love how much I agree with that person. I watched this video the other day and found it just awful. She says how she wants to shock people and I think with every video that comes out, she does shock that little bit more. But the shock isn't a positive thing. People are starting to get irritated with her more than anything, I know I am and eventually, the shock and irritation will make people lose interest in her. It is likely that people would have got bored of her had she stayed her usual Hannah Montana self, but at least she wouldn't have been irritating. No matter how hard she tries, she's always going to have a part of her Disney past to her name, similarly, no matter what she does, these publicity stunts she keeps pulling are going to be with her for even longer. The person she is now, she isn't going to want to be her forever and one day she will wake up and realise what an idiot she's made of herself. She'll also realise that this 'reckless persona' that she's made is going to be MUCH harder to shake off. Sorry, that turned into a little bit of a rant. I just have a lot to say on Miley Cyrus!

I agree with you Gina, but i think what the problem is, is that despite people becoming bored and irritated by her people want to see what see does next. Is it going to be more outlandish or shocking than the next? And that is what i think Miley herself counts on. Like she said in her new documentary trailer, she'd rather be talked about for two week than two seconds. So in turn i think that she see's any publicity, even if it's bad publicity, is better than no publicity at all.

I guess Miley has some new photos out that are pretty risque.  This post just writes about how Miley is all about the controversy and getting people to talk about her.

I agree with the post, i guess is easy to say that Miley is always fame hungry and wants people to talk about her. But surely if people keep talking about her won't they just get bored.

Katy Perry recently sign to be the new face for CoverGirl Cosmetics. In this article, Katy Perry claims that beside music, make up is an avenue of self expression. She continues to motivate others with her personality and values.

Here is an article that includes a recording of a new song by Taylor Swift: "Sweeter Than Fiction." According to the author, the song will be included in an upcoming British movie called "One Chance," (which I found comical, since it's like One Direction and, well, you know) and was released on iTunes at midnight. Obviously, it was made for the film; it doesn't sound like a typical Swift song (although the lyrics contradict this claim, I'm focusing on the overall sound). Take a listen!

This is the BBC news article from 2009 which goes into more detail about how Rage against the machine beat Xfactor for the UK christmas number one spot, in case anyone was interested in knowing more about it.

I found this article on E! News online and I thought it was interesting to see how Miley is transforming not only as a person but also her website to match her new identity with half naked photos, foam fingers, and more.

An argument that Miley Cryus's VMA performance was (though unintentionally) a minstrel show that echoes the minstrelsy of the 19th century, especially performances of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This is a heritage that we carry with us from theatre, and plays out in hollywood, such as "Orange Is the New Black" character Crazy Eyes.

I found this lyric video for Childish Gambino's (aka Donald Glover) new single 3005 extremely interesting because instead of your typical lyric video affair, it is set up as a online chat, with Gambino's lyrics being posted as the messages he's sending to the girl in the chat, who occasionally posts responses, and dances around to the music. It is an interesting and clever use of the lyric video

Lily Allen's response to accusations that her new video is racist

An interesting article on Britney Spears tabloid fame and new her new Las Vegas residency.

This article focuses on the mumblecore genre of film and discusses how it portrays youth culture and "privileged white slackers." It expands upon Halberstam's discussion of the films and gives new insight into it.

Miley Cyrus's new video for "23"

But... but I already posted this... :(

You did! And your post was much better than mine!

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

Miley Cyrus' new photo shoot with Terry Richardson that shows Cyrus pushing the boundaries yet again.

I thought this was an interesting article in relation to pop culture and how authentic things have become, especially with the introduction of new technologies such as auto-tune and music sampling and editing. The article goes deeper into these. Thus those who want to make a imprint on the industry as the article states is going to be increasingly difficult because ''even the most sincere expressions of self will have to be multiple and complicated''.