A critical approach to Lily Allen's New song "Hard Out Here'

In light of the Sia incident, I here is Elton John, who identifies as gay, performing with Eminem at the Grammys. 

Sia is donating to LGBT programs after collaborating with Eminem, who is known for using harsh words towards the LGBT community

Today, Amanda Palmer, will.i.am, Zoe Keating, Imogen Heap, and Scooter Braun(creator of Justin Bieber) with addition to music platforms Spotify, Vevo, Songkick, will be debating if technology has killed the music industry. 

So someone decided to get an operation to look like the Biebs. It is interesting to see how far this person went to look like a celebrity. 

Today in class we discussed parodies and it reminded me of this Jon Lajoie ditty. He is arguing that all pop songs have the same song structure and are unoriginal. 

It is interesting how Emilie uses sex as a form of self embracing in her music video. Also, the very title 'Fight like a Girl' commonly used as an insult in sports, is used in a very inspiring and confident tone. 

An interesting take on the evolution of Miley Cyrus. 

"LOOK BOOBS! And even more tantalizing: LOOK HANNAH MONTANA BOOBS!" Amanda Palmer decides to write a open letter to Sinead after Sinead writes one to Miley. In it Palmer praises women to try as many fashion decisions as they would like because it is their choice. 

The quote Miley uses "People are going to talk, might as well make them talk for two weeks instead of two seconds" Is a really interesting take on why celebrities have overdramatize things. 

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. 

A very interesting take on the Rated version of Blurred lines from a group of different teenagers. Some quotes I found interesting was: "If a guy watches it, they think its completely ok to do that to women and its not ok" "Its a song, not like its this whole movement saying 'women's suck'"