Rania Abdulrazzaq Eng 1020 Music Analysis paper Due: 6/26/2012 Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – Lady Gaga came into performance after her first album “The Fame” was released in 2008. It included the hit “Bad Romance” and that album sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Gaga is also recognized for her unique sense of fashion‚ Performance‚ and music videos. She was included in Times annual list of the most influential people in the world. Forbes also placed her in number seven in their annual’s list
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Rihanna - ‘We Found Love’ music video This music video does follow a narrative which is realist as it shows scenes from the story of the couple’s life. All shots in this video do not show continuity they go from one scene to another completely randomly which makes it hard to find a narrative; much like any film that shows formalism. Surrealist art cinema tends to subject itself to visions of sexual desire‚ violence and bizarre humour. Rihanna’s music video shows a lot of sexual desire between
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Florence + The Machine’s music video Never Let Me Go is a story of death and leaving love behind. This is represented countless times throughout the video in various ways‚ both visually and lyrically. The theme of having to let go and leave someone/something you love behind runs continually throughout the video‚ clearly evident with the subject’s reluctance to let the darkness consume her. However‚ the shadow of death hangs over her during the film‚ threatening to take her at any given moment. The
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Journal #2 – Music Videos I watched my hour long of videos on daily motion. I watched music videos by August Alsina and Beyonce’s self-titled album Beyonce. August Alsina is a 21year old singer born and bred from the streets of New Orleans‚ Louisiana enters into the music industry two years ago. For those who don’t know who Beyonce is she is an American recording artist and actress. Born and raised in Houston‚ Texas. She performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child‚ and rose
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together a short music video. I decided to make a music video because I felt is was significant to a problem in todays society. Today‚ popular culture‚ such as today’s hits music‚ has a negative impact on women and young girls. For example‚ in a lot of songs with a male artist‚ the male will degrade women. With that said‚ one may turn on the radio‚ or television‚ and hear a song about how the male artist is so wealthy that he can sleep around with any girl that he would like. In the music video of the same
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the world. In Beyonce’s music video‚ “Pretty Hurts‚” femininity is shown through the struggles and pressures women go through to meet the unrealistic standards of beauty. Compared to the topic of femininity‚ the representation of masculinity is very limited in the music video. Also‚ the music video challenges the gender stereotypes and deals with third wave feminism. Women struggle daily in order to meet the unrealistic standards of beauty. In the beginning of the music video‚ Beyonce and the other
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Die Another Day: Madonna Music Video The product carries no institutional or other identification‚ but the music appearance of Madonna present it as a 3 1/2 minute music video promoting the single Die Another Day. This text is intrinsically inter-textual: it is the theme to the James Bond feature film of the same name. Movie audiences will see a completely different set of images set to the same music at the start of the film. Knowingly‚ the video presents Madonna in the role which Bond inhabits
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is recognized for his work as a rap artist who is able to connect with his audience through humor and rhythmically dicey lyrics. Eminem’s “My Name Is” music video is able signify whiteness and rearticulate race with the use intertextual editing techniques that parody common representations of whiteness. Eminem is using his “My Name Is” video as an approach to solidify his style of rapping and thus create new political and cultural authenticities that entice questions of race representation in
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Video games are notorious for having a number of negative effects on an individual and have built the reputation for being unhealthy‚ but Jane McGonigal hopes to break that stigma; Jane believes that video games can actually save the world. I appreciate her optimism and enthusiasm‚ but there are many flaws to what she is saying. For one‚ she states that we should increase the number of hours that we spend playing video games; she claims that video this will bring out the best in them. If so‚ why
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Music activities are doing everyday and doing very well even thought people are not musicians. Further‚ she thinks music education has beneficial to brain and she has some examples between musicians and people’s brain‚ the functions are differently. The neurologists have tasks about the brain and make a video‚ it approves music education is exercise for the brain including mitre visual and auditory cortices. Also‚ the scientists find that musicians have many different function in the brain‚ for example
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