Sophie Ellis-Bextor

On April 24, 2016, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter released her sixth studio album, Lemonade. This album had no prior advertisement, yet still topped Billboard’s top 100 chart, making it a promotional wonder. Titled after the proverbial-saying, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” Lemonade was released as a “visual album” in which each song was portrayed in a music video, and then later, collectively create a larger storyline. Beyoncé explores themes of betrayal, anger, forgiveness, redemption, and

‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ is a 2006 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne; this is his fourth novel, and the first he has written for children. My classmates and I have read the book and watched the trailer of its newly releasing movie. And I have to say, this novel is really remarkable. The novel truly engages the reader completely into the book and it’s difficult to put down. “Believe me”!!.......the trailer is all the more brilliant, with a high standard quality and exceptionally mind capturing

Falsettos, a musical written by William Finn in the 1980’s, is the story an unorthodox and highly dysfunctional Jewish family living in New York at the end of the 1970’s. At the center of the show is a confused middle aged man named Marvin, who introduced us to his ex-wife Trina and current lover Whizzer along with his precocious 10-year-old son Jason. Throughout the course of the show many different issues plague the family like the new family format, gay rights and the AIDS crisis that when the

Have you ever felt a relationship you had just did not work out? Adele, a Grammy award-winning artist, is known for her popular love songs that express heartbreak, admiration, and many more topics related to love. So far, she has released two albums, “19” and “21” that showcases her many famous songs such as, “Someone Like You” and “Hello”. One of the most popular that is showcased is “Rolling in the Deep” in which she released on November 29th, 2016. Different from Adele’s genre of music is a band

protecting the rights of animals (PETA UK, 2017) ‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur’ is an activist campaign, trying to change the social attitudes towards wearing fur. The discourse in place for PETA lets the campaign create shock. The image of Sophie Ellis Bextor holding a skinned fox with the caption ‘Here’s the rest of your fur coat’ (PETA 2002), demonstrates the response this campaign is trying to draw from the audience through the use of discourse horror at animal deaths. The PETA shock discourse