The record industry and movie industry are even more so now becoming increasingly intertwined, but yet have an almost ideological bias that is beginning to be truly noticiable. In light of the two massively broadcast award shows having been broadcast within the past month, a certian level of examination seemed appropriate in order to have [...]
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WMG vs YouTube with amateur producers caught in the middle
Here is the midterm video project, embedded as a video in this blog entry. As stated in the info box on the video’s YouTube page, its purpose is to analyze the reasoning of the action of user-generated videos that have content from artists signed to Warner Music Group being muted and removed from YouTube and the impact on amateur [...]
Desire to be regarded, but audiences enjoy watching narcissists.
Fred, why do we love him? Now, Fred’s Channel on Youtube is the number one subscribed channel. But at the time of this videos making, the creator Lucas Cruikshank was an unknown adolescent with a web cam and the idea of speeding up the footage to appear more like a 5 year old. The series is intended as a parody [...]
Identification with artists through experience, and idealization.
In the media today, the sensationalism of the tabloids are often filled with the misadventures and interactions of stars. To what extent this is true is often a point of debate in media analysis. I need not discuss the myriad of example of this, most of which involve emotionally unstable women struggling with a demanding [...]
Using the song structure or breaking grounds?
The structure of a song has often been the very grounds for the formation of genres. Whether it be the differentiation of Pop, metal or classical. In many ways, the largest groups of popular music have become eminent because of their remolding of the typical song structure. Johnny Cash’s sound was one of the most genre shaking [...]
A reality of us, but made or shown by whom?
The actions and communication of individuals is often a matter of interest in the building of culture. With the availability of the internet, and the occurrences of online diaries, we have in many ways become a confessional society. Whether the images that we show to the world, live or planned, redefine us, is a question [...]
Visualization of sound, or lack of imagination.
The visualization of music, whether by music videos, or personalization by identifying personal experience through hearing the lyrics and sound is a concept that theorist often attempt to understand, and refer to it as synaesthesia. In a possible analysis of the medium of the music video, there are several different levels of [...]
