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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.

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.

Amanda Palmer performing and speaking about Lady Gaga. Ends short, but I found it interesting hearing Amanda Palmer speaking about someone we are studying so heavily right now. 

Here is a youtube clip talking about a scientific study on how similar pop songs are to other pop songs. They talk about the similar beats and chord progressions and songs these days are all from the same cookie cutter outline. They are saying that essentially this is proof that pop music sucks and it lacks authenticity. Let me know what you think!