Summary Of Molly Lambert's Song Shake It Off

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.

Beyoncé Knowles’s Lemonade video album brings the words of Beyoncé into a visual media and shows the viewer a deeper meaning behind the album. After this video came out many articles came forward analyzing Lemonade. One article, in particular, that was intriguing is Bell Hooks “Moving Beyond Pain.” Hooks starts her article saying that the Lemonade video was created as a money-making, business strategy, but as the text continues the reader can conclude that “Moving Beyond Pain” is actually about African American women, and women in general, standing up for themselves.

Anytime someone takes a complicated emotion and simplifies it so I know it like I know the ABC’s, my heart wells with pride and admiration with an intensity that's slightly embarrassing. The album is uniquely defining for me mainly because it fits into so many aspects of life. Although it has a seemingly shallow message about her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles, I have always thought of it as slightly deeper. With lyrics like “This love is alive back from the dead” and “Take my hand and don’t ever drop it, my love” I relate it to daily life. One song describes a time when all you want to do is hide, but the next track describes something beautiful and lovely. Just like one day the storms are raging everywhere I go, but the next God has cleared the skies and created something lovely. The album taught me to not be ashamed of who I am or what I believe, so for that I owe Swift big time. Finally, I recently fell in love with writing songs and at 1989’s core it's just the result of great songwriting. Songwriting does for me what punching someone does for someone

Robin Thicke’s music video to his song “Blurred Lines” avidly contributes to the patriarchy, while portraying sexism, gender standards, and beauty standards. His music video can be analyzed from a feminist theory approach, as it’s evident that his song and video contribute to a patriarchal society and its inherently sexist and sexualized ideologies. The ideology behind the song and music video is purely sexual and about male dominance. The lyrics to the song and actions in the video exhibit extreme over sexualization and objectification of the women. Analyzing this piece of popular culture through a feminist approach opens up a provoking conversation about how popular culture functions in a patriarchal culture. Analyzing pop culture though a feminist theory can allow for a larger variety and more in-depth analysis about the social aspects and political agenda within popular culture.

Recently, 24- year old country singer/popstar Taylor Swift released a music video “Shake it Off” which was I sort of introduction to her newest album 1989. The video received some backlash for it was seen by many as offensive, and stereotypical to African American Culture. In the video Swift dresses in what some may consider Hip Hop attire, attempts to “twerk” and even has a section where she partially sings as well as raps. She even uses talks about

At first glance, it may seem like Kesha’s music does not have any political or social significance. With repetitive melodies, dance beats, and lyrics about sex, drugs, alcohol, and partying, it would be easy to assume that Kesha’s music is merely stock pop dance music. After attending her concert at TCF Bank Stadium on October 21, 2016, it became apparent to me that Kesha’s performances have deeper motives. This essay will prove that Kesha’s performances spread a message of tolerance, positive self-regard, and resilience.

Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off was released as the lead single from her record-topping album 1989 and became a smash hit across the world. Written with the help of Max Martin and Shellback, Shake It Off is an uptempo pop song that is in the key of G Major at a tempo of around 160 beats per minute. Vocally, Swift’s range in the song spans two octaves from G3 to G5. The rhythmic beats leave an impression on any music lover. The song begins with boisterous drums pertaining to the idiophone family that create a pop rhythm from the start. The drums are multi-timbral, syncopated, and upbeat with the bass drum being deep and resonant in the ears of any listener. The ride cymbal is prominent throughout creating a rhythm that never sways. The texture

The music video visual interprets the song. The visuals of a music video adds a lot of social context to the music itself. You see what the artist looks like, their age, race, class, how they dress, act, dance, and what kind of physical setting they are in. They are emotional and symbolic. In both the music video and the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s new song, “Blank Space,” we see all kinds of symbols that show gender, class, and relationship.

Another scene in the music video that demonstrates the blurred lines of consent and reinforces rape culture is when one of the models is laying on her stomach and a very small stop sign is displayed on her bottom (3:47). This symbolizes that her ability to say stop to Thicke’s implications and his desires is so small that it’s almost insignificant. This pushes the rape myth that women should accept rape as flattering and allow men to have sex with them (Hamlin, 2005) because she really wants it. These instances allow for the acceptance of rape culture and directly promotes sexism that subordinates women to men.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, my name is Vader-Ann Wegner and I am here this evening with Today Revealed to discuss with you Meghan Trainor’s so called body acceptance anthem. We are here today to raise awareness of youth about highly constructed nature of texts that society engages with on a daily basis. “All About That Bass” has notched more than 120 million views on YouTube, has been perched atop of the billboard charts and is nothing but a true earworm catchy tune that is being played religiously on the radios of millions of people, the youth being the largest sum of them. This parody music video has a very retro feel, but incorporates many modern musical elements to keep it contemporary. This hit gives a contradictory message to society and youth of today as it is highlights how full-figured women are perfect compared to the expectation of the modern, pencil- thin figure.

On December 13th, 2013, Beyoncé Knowles dropped her self-titled visual album. It included 14 new songs and 17 music videos. No one was expecting it, as she had no prior press. Within the first 17 days of its release, the album had sold 1.3 million copies. Upon listening to her album, it is no doubt that Beyoncé is a visionary. The music videos were aesthetically pleasing and incredibly story-based. Her voice was on point. But that was all expected; Beyoncé has been entertaining audiences since the late 1990’s and has racked up 17 Grammy awards. However, this album was different. Of course it still had the same sledgehammering dance beats and spunky attitude that we all expect from Bey, but this album was different than her others. Beyoncé’s

Act 3 Scene 1 For this scene I chose the song “Shake It Out” by Florence and The Machine. I chose this song because it talks about having a battle with yourself and not telling anyone about it. It’s about having dilemmas of whether to tell people about whatever you’re having trouble with or to just not tell anybody and keep it to yourself. A quotation from the song that explains this is:”

She is charming, talented, and wealthy. She sings beautifully with her heart-touching songs; she dresses up aesthetically on stages as well as in her daily life; she has wonderful and supportive friends such as Ed Sheeran and Gigi Hadid, and she owns expensive estates. Taylor Swift is affluent, yet her early life was not as successful as her current life. Although Taylor has been gifted with her voices, she was not really popular at her school. During middle school, Taylor Swift did not have many female friends, though she was desperate in finding some, and she was excluded by her friends most of the time. Being an outsider is depressing, and having only a few friends is much worse. I empathize Taylor Swift, for I am also unpopular and, sometimes, lonely. Taylor Swift was lonely, yet she viewed it as a motivation to rise instead of surrender. Later on, Swift got a contract with Scott Brochetta’s Big Machine Records, and her first single, “Tim McGraw,” became top 10 hit on Country Songs chart. Her fame rose dramatically with her “Our Songs.” In 2010, Swift won a Grammy Award for Album of The Year. Taylor Swift had a tough childhood; her early friends did not like her, yet those people would have been jealous with Taylor now. Furthermore, Taylor Swift is also a notable example of perseverance. In spite of people knocking her down, she still obtain world

Many things have changed over the past few decades. Gay marriage is becoming more accepted as a legitimate relationship, men and women are no longer being held captive to their roles of masculinity and femininity, and sexuality is becoming an even more accepted topic of discussion. While all of these changes are moving in the right direction, and everyone should be treated equally even on account of their race, gender, or sexuality, the one thing that has not changed is very much evident in today’s music scene. Today, women are still being objectified as part of good publicity as well as to get more views on videos. In Laura Mulvey’s essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, that was originally published in 1975, Mulvey makes many claims that are still relevant to today’s media, and especially relevant to the music industry. Many of the claims that Mulvey makes are very heavily supported by the kinds of messages that a popular hip-hop song, “Get Low” by Lil’ Jon, makes. The messages that the song sends speak volumes, and as the song aligns with claims that Mulvey makes, the song becomes increasingly more objectifying.

For example, authors Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Lindsay Zoladz are both critical of popular artist Drake in their respective pieces. Shepard explains that her least favorite song of the year was Drake’s “Charged Up.” This song was an unexpected diss track towards rapper Meek Mill that gained traction because young people on the Internet enjoyed the drama associated with it. Unlike Shepard, Zoldaz is a fan of Drake, but still critiques his music and his attitude towards woman. In 2015, Drake’s most popular single was “Hotline Bling,” which gained even more success because of social media. After the music video for “Hotline Bling” was released, many people posted Internet jokes about Drake’s dance moves. However, in the midst of all this fun, Zaldaz found time to dissect the lyrics of the song. She argues that Drake’s attitude towards women has become “old-fashioned” and uses “Hotline Bling,” a song where Drake seems to be annoyed at a girl for going out, to prove her point. In addition to speaking about artists such as Drake on this blog, topics such as sexism and racism within and caused by the music industry are also covered. For example, authors discussed the difficulty black women face regarding gaining recognition in the industry in comparison to their white counterparts. Furthermore, they