Critical Approaches to Gender and 21st Century Pop Music

This video is from Key and Peele's show. I think this video can be relevant to Thursday's class, when we talked about Macklemore and his song, Same Love.  It's obviously supposed to be funny, but just the fact that Key and Peele are both black makes for an interesting twist.

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

In this article, Joshua Clover discusses Taylor Swift's latest album 'Red'.

Miley Cyrus got her fourth tattoo! Rumor has it that it is supposed to be either a younger version of Dolly Parton (who is her godmother) or her grandmother. Personally, I like the tattoo a lot; probably because I love Kat Von D's work!

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."  

We talked briefly about this song in class so I thought I would post it for those who had not heard it or seen the video.As someone who is not really a fan of Bieber I do enjoy this particular song; a guilty pleasure like we discussed in class.

I found this hilarious parody of Taylor Swift and her song Trouble. This Parody focuses on Taylor Swift's love life and sees her ex-boyfriends speaking out against the fact she constantly writes about her break ups. I thought it was a fun way to show how Taylor Swift is represented in the media.

I found this article on buzz feed that compares Lady Gaga in her many bizarre outfits to random objects. You will be surprised at the the likeness of some such as the outdoor heater or the weight loss pill!!

I thought this was pretty funny! The Professor Trelawney one was pretty good! I just wonder how tiring it would be to always be dressing up like that! Or it could be fun as well!

I'm not sure if anyone has seen this website before but i though it was amazing with a capital 'A'!! Most of the posts are about the relationship between race and pop culture and the media. So if anyone was thinking of doing their final project with relations to race and pop culture then this is definitely a site to browse through.

This can relate to the class discussion on Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' music video and how there is this reversal of the black/white dynamic. This article continues to discuss how Gaga isn't oblivious to her own normativity and how she deliberately plays with her 'whiteness' but in actuality she is then oblivious to to white privilege. Thus the protagonist and in this case Gaga gets the attention while women of colour (beyonce) that are contributing to the redefinition of music and gender performances are marginalised.

She speaks about her performance in the UK.

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.

This is an image, since I couldn't find a video of this, but I think it works anyways.  When we were talking in class about how Same Love portrays gay people in the wrong light, it made me think of this scene in Modern Family.

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'"

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

We have heard the song, and heard parodies with opposite gender roles. What does everybody think about this cover with a female singing about a male. She does it in a much different way than we have seen with the actual song and the parodies we have looked at.

I found this Facebook page made especially to shoot down lady gaga and show all the ways in that she has 'supposedly' copied other artists images. At face value when looking though the collective photos that people have added to prove so, it is quite astonishing at the resemblances between lady gaga and other artists before her.

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.