In the music industry, they usually form the typical music group or boy band that can sing, dance, and are exceptional looking that appeal to teenage girls. In this case it was no exception. Nevertheless, that didn’t matter, as millions of girls would line up the streets just to see a glimpse of them. The band that I’m talking about is One Direction. They are an English-Irish pop boy band originated from London, England. The band has gained millions upon millions of dedicated and loyal fans over their music careers. This profile will be centered on Directioners (Fan base nickname) who are viewed as crazy or a mob of hysteria teenage hormones. Furthermore, the effects of what causes these kind of emotions towards the band.
I first recognize One Direction when I saw a promo for their album on tv and decided to check it out. I was intrigued by them and told my younger sister about them, which turned out to be a mistake on my part, considering, she soon became their number one fan. She bought their album and started listening to them twenty four-seven, repeating the song “What make you beautiful” over and over again. Then she bought T-shirts, bracelets, and magazines just to get the posters that had the band on them. Pretty much anything that was their merchandise she would convince our parents to buy it for her. I have never seen her like this before and perceive that she became obsessed with them.
My sister would wake up early to watch them perform on a
Traveling is one of my family’s favorite things to do. The family has visited numerous places throughout the United States, however, none are as memorable as Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, there are many places to go and sights to see such as: Cola-cola factory, Cabbage Patch Kids Factory, Under Ground Mall, the Zoo, Atlanta Braves Stadium, Six Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain Park, and the Atlanta Aquarium, are all in or near the city of Atlanta. The three that we visit on every trip to Atlanta are Six Flags, Stone Mountain, and the Atlanta Aquarium.
Traveling is one of my family’s favorite things to do. The family has visited numerous places throughout the United States, however, none are as memorable as Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, there are many places to go and sights to see such as: Cola-cola factory, Cabbage Patch Kids Factory, Under Ground Mall, the Zoo, Atlanta Braves Stadium, Six Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain Park, and the Atlanta Aquarium, are all in or near the city of Atlanta. The three that we visit on every trip to Atlanta are Six Flags, Stone Mountain, and the Atlanta Aquarium.
this water to survive, and our loved ones at home worried sick wondering if we are even still alive. Then again the view a had while doing this wasn’t all that bad. Most likely a better view than what I would have originally had at the resort we were heading to.
It is true that children and teenagers constitute the biggest percentage of the followers of such music; hence, they are easily corrupted. From it, they can get a wrong idea of women, violence, sex and drugs and see that as a ‘cool’ lifestyle. Which kid wouldn’t want the kind of life they see in these music videos; hot girls in bikinis chilling in a pool, alcohol everywhere and a mansion with enough guns to start a museum?
And that, my friends, would go down in the family album as baby’s first rebellion. I won’t detail every nuance of my angry rejection of popular culture, but I will admit to committing near-unspeakable atrocities to many an innocent Limited Too catalogue. I felt as if the whole world - down to every last speck of body glitter clinging to the gyrating hips of that week’s teen pop starlet - hated me, so I hated it right back. And you thought you started your emo phase
In conclusion, messages/words in music, especially in rock/hip-hop rap music are sometimes dangerous to young people because they could lead to misogyny, violence, suicide, taking drugs, drinking alcohol, and other negative behavior. Contemporary music has as positive as negative effects on young people. The beneficial effects of music can express the fact that it helps many people cope with a bad mood, depression, sadness; however, negative changes in American culture, society, and music have led to increasingly dangerous musical lyrics that have created serious problems for some teenagers. Most of today's musical trends promoting free love, and sometimes even distorted its manifestations. Many bands advocate even drugs. They are singing
There are many teenagers and young kids that are overly obsessed with celebrities that it effects them in a negative way. The way it affects teenagers and kids negatively is that it can lead to depression or suicidal. Some of them even cry over the celebrity. In my experience, there were many teenage girls that went crazy when Zayn, from the band One Direction, left the group.
To conceptualize the meanings and effects in her music, films, concerts, and public relations stunts requires that her artifacts be interpreted within the context of their production and reception, which involves discussion of MTV, the music industry, concerts, marketing, and the production of images (see Kellner 1995). Understanding Madonna's popularity also requires focus on audiences, not just as individuals, but as members of specific groups, such as teen-age girls, who were empowered in their struggles for individual identity by Madonna, or gays, who were also empowered by her incorporation of alternative images of sexuality within popular mainstream cultural artifacts. Yet appraising the politics and effects of Madonna also requires analysis of how her work might merely reproduce a consumer culture that defines identity in terms of images and consumption. It would make an interesting project to examine how former Madonna fans view the evolution and recent incarnations of the superstar, such as her marriage and 2001 Drowned World tour, as well as to examine how contemporary fans view Madonna in an age that embraces younger teen pop singers like Britney Spears or Mariah
Halsted Street, a very familiar name to me. My high school is located nearby the Halsted street in the South Union Ave, so I hear a lot of things about it. But never got a chance to visit it. It is the opposite directions to my home, so I have never been there during all my high school year. When I got there and start my own tour, it just brings me a really different feeling, like you really familiar it but actually you haven’t been there for once.
Wind back to 1994, the band Green Day were topping the charts with their catchy punk rock tunes. Leading the way for Punk Rock culture, they were youths and 20 somethings’ outlet for expressing their frustration and angst with puberty, adolescence and the beginning of adulthood. Each day society would see another kid ending up as a victim of a broken or abusive home, leaving the number of youths raising themselves, ever on the rise. At the time of Green Day’s rise to fame the generation of youth strongly identified with the Punk Rock scene and culture that was home to bands like Green Day. Their lyrics and musical style portrayed feeling of being alone in their pain, of struggling with being different, and of speaking against society issues. It’s no wonder that Green Day became a huge influence to this TV and Media raised generation. ‘“My education wasn’t school,” says Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong. “My education was punk rock – what the Dead Kennedy’s said, what Operation Ivy said”’ (SPIN, 11/04).
Teenagers are using celebrities such as Kylie Jenner, as idols, trying to copy them in all that they do. Most of the time it seems celebrities are not the greatest of role models for impressionable girls and boys, but whether Jenner is responsible for her negative influences on young people is debatable. She is famous and obviously sets standards in today’s society, but she is also a teenager herself, with little experience when it comes to obsessive fans.
With many popular hit in the early 2000’s, Good Charlotte has made a name for itself in the hearts of many teenagers of that era. With song that speak of the many adolescent struggles of teen’s day to day life, Good Charlotte made a deep connection with their targeted teen audience. With songs like Lifestyle of The Rich and The Famous, This band connects with the less economically sound demographic and shares a familiar story of social and class issues. With their outreach to the less fortunate and anarchy punk sound, Good Charlotte creates a sense of energy and passion that cannot be found in a mere pop band. While Good Charlotte does appeal to a large audience, to classify them as a pop band without following it by punk would be an injustice to the band’s music, lyrics, and overall message.
The fatal contagion of sexting gadgets, twerking pop stars, and gilded trophies has poisoned the minds and corrupted the morals of a promising youth. Their plastic minds have subconsciously appropriated the lessening sense for discipline, the haste to know, the mad rush for wealth, and the reckless fashion set by the media outlet. It’s an old axiom that the kids these days are worse than ever — dumb, entitled, and out-of-control.
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times people have given me judgemental expressions when they found out that I like the band One Direction. Being in a fandom which is dominated by younger female fans does bring a lot of judgement upon oneself. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, One Direction fans have been deemed by society ‘desperate hormonal teenage girls without a good taste in music’.
Have you ever found yourself in awe at the videos of the three-year-old singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"? It doesn 't help either, that the little kid is so cute and chubby you just want to pinch his or her cheeks and talk to him or her in Barney mode. Well, today with one of the biggest boy bands, their career is essentially the identical way. The band One Direction, is a combination of five talented, handsome, young men who use their favorable looks to their advantage; basically the same way the pretentious and self-gratifying parent does when they put their child 's video up on YouTube. The boys themselves; Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and Zayn Malik are anything but ordinary personality wise. However,