Critical Approaches to Gender and 21st Century Pop Music

I found this article with a picture of Nicki Minaj in her halloween costume which is basically next to nothing. I think it would be interesting to compare her halloween costume to Miley's as "Lil Kim" and how the media portrays these two performers based on their reputation.

This was a really good read! I totally agree with the person who wrote this article, I feel like girls are pressured to look "sexy" or it's ok for them to look that way ONLY on halloween and they can get away with it. I'm going to go look up Miley's costume now!

a discussion on the merit of pop music and lana del rey

This website is called "Stuff white people like" it's a site that sarcastically lists things white people like and kind of plays with that idea. I read this a while back and thought it went well with our lesson on Thursday. This article talks about how a lot of music that is associated with "black" culture, such as jazz and rock have been adopted and owned by "white" people that when you think of those, you don't think of the black culture that started it. They also talk about how this is happening to pop music such as hiphop that is largely listened to a "whiter" audience, but they are actually listening to "commercial hiphop." I thought it was interesting how race plays a lot with music and which race has the ability to freely flow throughout any genre.

dubstep covers of pop songs is becoming increasingly more popular so I thought this one is a good one for people to listen too. Even if you dont think you'll like dubstep its pretty mellow and worth a listen

This short article shows how Christina Aguilera was criticized in the media for being "not Latina enough." It demonstrates how heritage is tied to ethnicity. It also shows how she responded to claims of her ethnicity being inauthentic. On a broader scale, the article reveals how ethnicity comes across through signs that audiences either accept or reject as authentic.

Following our conversion on the post-racial america, Bethenny Frankel and and Omarosa have had a dispute in regard to Bethenny supposedly having better opportunities because she has 'white privilege'.  It's sad to see that this type of prejudice is still apparent in today's society, 

One of my friends just posted this on Facebook. It talks about this new trend of younger girls posting videos on YouTube to get validation on being pretty or not. I didn't get thought the whole article because my laptop is going ot dye in like 3 minutes! But check it out, it's pretty interesting and the include some videos that the girls make. 

Sounds like Lady Gaga isn't too happy with the way things are going with her new album! Lady Gaga fired her manager just days before her album release, which isn't very common among pop stars [this close to such a major event]. It's a pretty big deal; I suggest you all check this out!

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

In the media, in the songs we're listening to, and in our everyday lives, there seems to be a war between Gays and Christians. It's whether you're on one side or the other. In the songs that we are to listen to for Thursday's class, there's an underlying topic about how all Christians are against Gay rights and they want to prosecute them. This article talks about Christians who are actually for Gay rights! Check it out!

I thought this video was pretty interesting! I believe it might be the principal who said they removed it for "safety" reasons, but I kind of don't believe that. At the end, a lot of students were around the area of the wrecking ball as if they were protesting it to come back or mocking its absence? haha I don't know! It was interesting!

I thought I would post this version as we were discussing it today in class. We were saying how this version is more emotional because it is about an individuals story unlike Macklemores's version 'Same Love' which generalizes to everyone in the gay and lesbian community.

Over the past few years, Electronic Dance Music a.k.a EDM has slowly crossover to the realm of pop culture. This article shows Lady Gaga music has been influenced by the EDM culture.

This may be relevant to your link. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/07/lady-gaga-artpop-review

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.

SNL does a parody of ' what the fox say' featuring Kerry Washington. I found it very entertaining.