Simon Cowell's Legacy

In what Sincerity Looks Like, an opinion piece, author David Brooks of The New York Times tears apart Chance the Rappers New Untitled Song released on The Late show with Stephen Colbert in order to highlight chances intended “displays of vulnerability, trust and humility.”Brooks in an candid tone, uses Literal detail and Inductive reasoning in order to analizes chance’s song to a modernized and socal yet disconnected audience of city dwellers Further he notes the similarities between Chance and Swift’s recent releases addressing the recurring themes of the “perils of stardom” and “coping with celebrity.”He uses these themes to speak to a disconnected audience hoping to achieve instant success stressing that it is not as great as they think.

David Lowery has experience in the music industry, he has the passion to evoke emotions, what

A couple of weeks ago founder of Bad Boy Records Puff Daddy posted a couple of videos of rappers such as Fabolous, Pusha T, Jadakiss, TIP, & more spitting some classic verses of his late friend & hip hop legend The Notorious B.I.G. on Instagram in memory of his passing on March 9th, 1997. Seeing those videos was just another reminder of why one of Brooklyn's finest finds his way into a plethora of Top 5 MC's list. Though the 20th anniversary of Biggie's death is not the only thing we remember about him this month. This Saturday on March 25th marks 20 years since the release of his second & final studio album "Life After Death," a hip hop classic that showed the growth in his artistry & would strengthen the legendary MC's legacy to last decades

“Oh, that was just the greatest entertainer of all time!” A very intelligent girl exclaimed. Michael Jackson is certainly the greatest entertainer that has ever lived. To begin, an article stated this, “The King of Pop's hits included Beat It, Billie Jean and Thriller and his 1982 album was the best-selling album of all time, with more than 26 million copies sold” (“Michael Jackson”). Since his album is the best selling album ever and that he has millions of fans that proves he actually is the greatest entertainer ever. Secondly, Jackson is referred as The King of Pop because Michael is a very skilled dancer, singer, and songwriter (Hill 249). This shows that he was very

In Chris Hedges’ “American Psychosis,” the author does an exceptional job of likening the “dying empire” of America to the vapid and decaying housewife who hinges her own life upon the overinflated and televised world of celebrities. Hedges suggests that, once an illustration of preeminence and success, American society is now more concerned with the illusion of such things, incapable as we are in the present day to recreate the brilliance of the past.

There were many steps Garth Brooks took in making it in the music industry. Music wasn’t always Garth’s main focus. While he attended Yukon High School he played on the school’s football, baseball, and track and field team. Garth wasn’t always the best on the team but played sports only to keep his interest in school. After high school, he attended Oklahoma State University with a partial scholarship and threw javelin on the track team. While being on the track team, Garth weighed 225 pounds and could bench press more than three hundred pounds. Garth threw javelin with his brother Kelly, who also attended Oklahoma State University. The two brothers roomed together in a dormitory at the college. Garth also worked hard towards a marketing degree while he was in college. When he was not studying or being apart of the

Motown was one of the most popular African American songwriting companies. Motown had some of the most famous singers and had some of the biggest hits. Motown was founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959 by Berry Gordy.(Take A Trip Through the 1960's). Smokey Robinson, Magic 5 and Michael Jackson were just some of the many famous songwriters in the history of Motown.

Racial Inequalities is a part of society that has been overlooked in the past when reflecting on an individual’s success. As a musician, all aspects of life influence an integral part to one’s career success. The daunting power of racial inequality is illustrated remarkably in comparison of how society remembers these Berry and Presley today. In regards to this inequality we will reflect upon unequal power, resources prestige and presumed worth. These two musicians, vary in privilege in comparison to one another greatly throughout the entire course of their life. Berry started out in a descent finial situation while Presley started in an in poverty.

Rough Draft For music to endure for centuries it has to have, in addition to wondrous sound, but an image of its composer that electrifies for generations. Rock N Roll has it all, yet to understand it deeply we must understand the fathers. Chuck Berry plunged his guitar into his amp and turned the hairs of his audience electric. Elvis Presley, the heartthrob of the south would give Rock N Roll its image for the next decade while America started to find out who it was and what their bleak future had in store for them.

More than two centuries have passed since American icon, Alexander Hamilton, famously engaged his political rival, Aaron Burr, in the fateful duel that ultimately cost him his life. Although the 12th day of July 1804 robbed Hamilton of his last breath, it, more importantly, commenced an era of remembrance and representation of his legacy in American popular culture that continues today. Most interesting is the current heightened period of popularity Hamilton’s legacy is experiencing now, 213 years after his violent death. From a massively popular Broadway musical (See Figure 1), adapted from an equally renown historical biography (See Figure 2), as well as an HBO miniseries (See Figure 3), the personification of America’s “ten-dollar father” has erupted onto the American popular culture landscape over the last fifteen years.

    People worldwide are praising a man who doesn’t deserve it. Despite being considered one of America’s most influential founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton’s character could never compete with his political status. Alexander Hamilton has been made into an inspiration that he doesn’t deserve to be, being portrayed as the exact opposite of what he stood for in a recent resurgence of praise for him sparked in particular by the world-renowned musical Hamilton. Although he may be receiving this praise, his character is undeniably horrid due to many flaws in his character including the encouragement of anti-immigration laws and his desire for powerful landowners to get complete power in government over the

The 56th annual Grammys award show was an event in 2014 that recognized the achievements made by a plethora of musical artists from a plethora of genres. However, that year a lot of controversy came along. Most of the controversy came along, when the award for ‘Hip Hop Album of the Year’ went to rapper, Macklemore, who is white, as opposed to Kendrick Lamar, an African American from Compton, California. The matter being brought to higher attention after this was that Hip Hop is African American culture, and for a white man from Seattle to not only rob the culture, but succeed immensely from it is wrong. Throughout time, the style of popular music has changed drastically; what hasn’t changed is the fact that most of it was actually stolen

Who would have known that the girl who wore potato sacks due to extreme poverty would now be worth $3 billion as a media mogul? (“Oprah Winfrey” Forbes). The only black woman in Forbes' list of 400 Richest People in America, Oprah Winfrey has climbed up the ladder of wealth and power in the media industry, once controlled and dominated by white male owners and executives (Elkins). Apart from her award-winning TV show, Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey has established her own media empire and shaped the media industry’s print, film, and Internet sectors through her religious, empowering vision. Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul who transformed daytime talk shows from gossipy-trashy to intimate, transformative, and empowering, broke down the traditional barriers of journalism, transformed the book-publishing industry, and influenced the mass audience to celebrate differences

Throughout history, the biggest reforms in government, philosophy, and behavior have been made by freethinking and outspoken people. People such as Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela changed the world with their actions and words. While others, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Walt Disney implement their talents to business to change the world. All are spoken highly of and are highly regarded. One name that is wrongly not considered for this list is Kanye West. Kanye West is an intelligent person whose actions and outbursts, despite the media’s attempts to make them look incoherent and uncivilized, actually come from a place of goodwill and promote a platform of free thinking.

Bo Burnham, a tall, awkward, American comic, likes to take a different approach at society’s issues and making dark jokes out of it. First, in Burnham’s Netflix special, he uses a dark and twisted humor. To add to his stage persona, Bo pokes fun at common issues that his audience and normal people deal with in their day-to-day life. To be more specific, in his song, “Kill Yourself”, he says, “…If you’re depressed, then you need to book a therapy session, talk about your depression, and let a professional hear it. But if you search for moral wisdom in Katy Perry’s lyrics then you should kill yourself.” After listening, one realizes that Bo ridicules those who think that life’s problems can be solved by simple lyrics in a song. Getting his audience to participate, he frequently asks them questions with a reaction in mind. Before performing, “Lower Your Expectations”, Bo asks, “How many single ladies out there looking for love tonight? *Single Women Cheer* Yeah, woo that sadness out.” Naturally, love is searched for by practically everybody. So, Bo gives them a dark dose of probable reality by simply stating that they won’t find love tonight. Throughout his shows, he takes dark unexpected turns to speak about today’s society. More so, a discomfort encompasses the audience when he asks, “Why is it that when a woman wears revealing clothing, she is labeled a slut? Yet if I were to wear her skin as a jacket, I’m a murderer.” As a result of this, Bo shows a concern for a standard in our society and follows it up with a sarcastic, dark twist. While these are real issues and questions that Bo poses, he makes his audiences laugh hysterically using sarcastic delivery with his unrealistic thoughts of today’s people.