How has the introduction of the internet impacted upon the representation of women in the music industry in texts such as Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball'?
Miley Cyrus's video for the song "Wrecking Ball" has been viewed on YouTube has been viewed over 130 million times, however sources reveal that perhaps the music is not good enough and it needs all this extra attention with her being naked. As well as the latest reports of her performing in Las Vegas on September 21st and getting emotional during a performance of "Wrecking Ball"
Miley Cryrus tells a media source that she would 'rather be naked then cry enough someone'
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https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus
Twitter is used by Miley Cyrus for many reasons: such as promoting her album and tour for her fans so they are persuaded to go and purchase tickets.
From one of the texts: E-media one of the social networking sites which Miley Cyrus has is Twitter. From this site the audience are able to identify her and view her as how she is representing herself on the twitter.
Miley Cyrus and Sinead O'Connor had a row which escalated all over the social networking sites. Sinead O'Connor the Irish singer warned her not be exploited by the music business. During the series of tweets, Miley Cyrus mocked O'Conner and compared her to US actress Amanda Bynes before alluding to O'Connor's mental health problems. O'Conner accused Miley Cyrus of "irresponsible behaviour" The conversation started after Miley, cited O'Connor's video Nothing Compares 2 U as an inspiration for her explicit Wrecking Ball Video. Cyrus found fame as a child, has been criticised in recent weeks for her performances in places such as MTV Music Awards in Brooklyn, and in reply to this O'Connor said she was "extremely concerned" that those around her to believe that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos. O'connor stated that she would take legal action against her if she did not remove the tweets, as Miley Cyrus have made really bad remarks about the singer with mental health issues.
Miley Cyrus and Sinead O'Connor had a row which escalated all over the social networking sites. Sinead O'Connor the Irish singer warned her not be exploited by the music business. During the series of tweets, Miley Cyrus mocked O'Conner and compared her to US actress Amanda Bynes before alluding to O'Connor's mental health problems. O'Conner accused Miley Cyrus of "irresponsible behaviour" The conversation started after Miley, cited O'Connor's video Nothing Compares 2 U as an inspiration for her explicit Wrecking Ball Video. Cyrus found fame as a child, has been criticised in recent weeks for her performances in places such as MTV Music Awards in Brooklyn, and in reply to this O'Connor said she was "extremely concerned" that those around her to believe that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos. O'connor stated that she would take legal action against her if she did not remove the tweets, as Miley Cyrus have made really bad remarks about the singer with mental health issues.
Miley Cryrus tells a media source that she would 'rather be naked then cry enough someone'
"For me, nudity has never been something that I’ve ever tripped about. I don’t really see it the way everyone else sees it, ” she told VEVO. “I’d rather be naked than cry in front of people, because I don’t like showing weakness and that’s a lot of vulnerabilities.” http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/10/29/miley-cyrus-naked-crying-in-public-interview/Even though Miley was fully naked on a gigantic grey ball while she sings wrecking ball. She states "It was so natural and organic".VEVO presented her with the award of most views on record, scoring over a 100 million views for each video: “Party In The USA,” “We Can’t Be Tamed,” “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball.” Congratulations, Miley!
As Miley Cyrus has become an older person and is growing quickly, she wants the world to notice that. But as she has had her heart broken she wants to show the world that she is a very strong person that's why her statement is that instead of showing signs of weakness she'd rather show herself of to the public naked. She likes being 'natural and organic' as shown in her wrecking ball music video.
Feminist theory: reference
Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes, the movement organised around this belief.
Joan Jacob Brumberg
One of the major influences on Brumbergs life is Margaret Mead's research in Somoa. She decided to trace female plight of self consciousness in American and European societies, where women have experienced a great deal of concern about their body image and physical changes that occur during the natural development. The mass media as an agent of culture has reinforced an ideal image that girls are too strive for an attain, therefore placing more emphasis on good looks than on good works.Women today enjoy greater freedom and more opportunities than their counterparts of the past, they are under more cultural pressure to look good.The gender differences are that girls begin to suffer bouts of clinical depression from the frustration that they experience when their bodies change. Beyond depression and the thoughts of suicide, girls are more vulnerable to eating disorders, substance abuse, and dropping out of school. Body is at heart of the crisis of confidence for adolescent girls.By the age thirteen, 53 percent of american girls are unhappy with their bodies; by the age of seventeen, 78% are dissatisfied. Societies influence: women found in their body image a sense of self definition and a way to announce who they are to the world. Today many young girls worry about the contours of the bodies especially shape, size and the muscle tone because they believe that the body is the ultimate expression of the self. Societies influence: fashion and the film industry are two huge influences on societal expectations that women display their bodies sexually. The sexual revolution liberated women from her Victorian of modesty but also demanded commitment to diet and beauty.Notes from print magazines:
Roles of technology: social networking
Notes were skilful to co-ordinate their actions by using Facebook, Blackberry and Twitter. 'technology fuelled Britain's first 21st century, using new smart-phones'.
We are in the era of user generated content (UGC) Development of the new technologies, the growth of the internet. Video cameras have been more common, camera and footage can be uploaded and distributed within the internet with seconds. Social media was built through UGC: Bebo, Myspace and YouTube.
Only a very small proportion of users are generating original content, most are 'consuming it'. "For an example, even when ordinary people become celebrities through their own creative efforts, there is a necessary transfer of media power.
For an example, the internet are used as people to publically argue and that shines through the mass media. As stated earlier this is evident through Miley Cyrus and Orel's fight as this was held on a very popular social networking site 'Twitter'. Which was widely let known to the public as they were directing messages directly towards each other.
https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus
Twitter is used by Miley Cyrus for many reasons: such as promoting her album and tour for her fans so they are persuaded to go and purchase tickets.
#bangerztour check out http://mileycyrus.com for datttttezzzzz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk0lNrgtbm0&app=desktop …"
Before Amanda Bynes.... There was.... pic.twitter.com/6JZPVnunPc
Miley Cyrus's twerking routine was cultural appropriation at its worst
Cyrus's act was less a homage to hip-hop and more a minstrel show. For cultural cross-pollination, give me the Notting Hill carnival any day
MILEY CYRUS'S TWERKING ROUTINE WAS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION AT IT'S WORST. cyrus's act was less a homage to hip-hop and more a minstrel show. For cultural crosspollination, give me the notting hill carnival any.
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Cyrus is hardly the first female celebrity to try to prove her maturity through sexuality and, to be fair to her, she probably felt that she needed more than a pixie haircut to compensate for the Billy Ray Cyrus factor. Whether that had to involve sticking her tongue out repeatedly as if Gene Simmons never happened is something only cultural historians will be able to chart later. Plenty of male singers grab their crotches while performing, but it seems to be only female singers these days who feel the need to strip down to their underwear and simulate sex acts on stage. As nice as it would be to imagine a world in which young women weren't taught to equate hypersexuality with maturity and independence, that remains as unrealised a dream as much of King's speech.
Cyrus, though, twerked the formula as well as her body by adding in a racial element while she copied the dance moves of strippers and bellowed her love of drugs. (Billy Ray's heart must be pretty achy breaky these days.) On stage as well as in her video she used the tedious trope of having black women as her backing singers, there only to be fondled by her and to admire her wiggling derriere. Cyrus is explicitly imitating crunk music videos and the sort of hip-hop she finds so edgy – she has said, bless her, that she feels she is Lil' Kim inside and she loves "hood music" – and the effect was not of a homage but of a minstrel show, with a young wealthy woman from the south doing a garish imitation of black music and reducing black dancers to background fodder and black women to exaggerated sex objects.
Cyrus's approach to cultural appropriation is as sophisticated as Robin Thicke's view of female sexuality, making it delightfully apt that they, inevitably, ended up duetting together. In a brilliant blogpost on the song,writer Wallace Wylie points out that while Thicke's song, Blurred Lines, doesn't endorse rape, as some have alleged, it does present the most tediously reductive view of sex and women with the idea of "a good girl" just needing to be liberated by alcohol and a penis to become "an animal". It's an idea that was satirised six years ago in SuperBad by teenagers and yet remains as credible in pop songs today as it does in porn. It's one of life's ironies that pop music is supposedly a progressive and young person's art form, yet the messages it sends are generally as retrograde as the gruntings of an embarrassing middle-aged uncle at Christmas dinner. It's downright bizarre that a carnival that celebrates its 50th anniversary next year should look so much more modern than anything in the pop world.
So like King, I too have a dream: I have a dream that female celebrities will one day feel that they don't need to imitate porn actors on magazine covers and in their stage acts. I have a dream that the predominantly white music world will stop reducing black music to grills and bitches and twerking. And I have a dream that stupid songs about seducing "good girls" will be laughed at instead of sent to No 1. And most of all, I dream that I never, ever have to see Miley Cyrus gyrating against Robin Thicke's crotch again. We won't be free then, but it will be a start.
