In the age of entertainment that we live in, there is a constant paradox in both movies and in the music industry to continually be fresh and cutting edge on the market. This has been the driving factor of artists becoming famous or flops, in fact the unfortunate result is that being popular is often [...]
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In the door of Communication, Context is the key
The process of communication, whether it be direct or mediated, is an action which either passively or forced is constantly being molded in our means of conveyance and interpretation. We are currently witnessing in the United States a cultural struggle between what has commonly been referred to as the moral/political “Right” and “Left”. In the [...]
By music broadcasting you mean what?
Our view of music artist, whether it be through advertising promotion specifically aimed at boosting the hype of an artist, or by reporting exposure of an unbiased source has been evolving for as long as popular music has been spreading to the mass audience. When the music industry first began to spread film footage of [...]
Live and that’s half of it
The influence of YouTube has spread to several areas of expression. With its ability to spread words, images and film of everything from home movies to world events, our representation of reality and entertainment is increasingly becoming less attached to established industries of distribution. For example, the amount of people who would normally wait around [...]
Established artists using amateur fame for credibility or hype?
The song Live Your Life, by rapper T.I. features Rihanna just came out late last year. Rihanna does an accompanying vocal track produced by the beatmaker Just Blaze which consists of a sample of the tune Dragostea din tei, which has the “mai ai hee” harmony that many now cannot hear without an association to the internet phenomena [...]
