I chose my top on Britney Spears and her music because I thought that she has been in the media constantly. She always has some new type of drama whether is has to deal with her custody with her kids or her trying to make a come back, it's always something new.
I am going to use Ideological criticism. Using this method I am going to analyze her work through her music video's, her live performances and her progression of music.
Hard times- when she shaved her head, and her performance at the 2007 MTV awards.( She looked horrible and did a terrible job)
Progression- Each CD she has come out with she has shown that she is growing up. Example her freshmen album to sophomore she sings "Not yet a women."
Exotic- She continually is trying new things. The infamous three way kiss during the MTV awards and dance moves in her music videos.
Music Video's- Talk about the genre of them. For example talking about her Cirrus tour how she is in the middle of the ring and the spotlight is on her.
Live performances- In 2007 when she performed at the MTV awards she was supposed to be making a come back. Unfortunately she looked horrible she was wearing unflattering clothing, overweight and she really did not dance just walked around the stage even though it was a fast paced song.
Progression of music- Going from her freshmen album were she is portrayed as being very innocent she jumped to being portrayed as a sex symbol. Her next album had words that had the lyric "I'm not that innocent," and she was wearing red and portrayed as the devil and wearing red leather.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Flim Festival Assignment
For the week of the film festival I went and saw "Field of Dreams." This movie was about a man that owned a farm and had voices that told him to build a baseball field on it. Throughout the movie he went through many struggles to actually making this dream become a reality.
A type of criticism that would be good to use was fantasy. You could use his dreams about wanting to watch all the great baseball players play with when he actually got to see the ghost play. You could also use it because he was seeing the great baseball players ghost's playing on his in the process of being built baseball field on his farm. It shows one dream is coming true about watching the ghosts play and that his dream for the baseball field being built on his farm was almost complete and gave him more motivation.
A type of criticism that would be good to use was fantasy. You could use his dreams about wanting to watch all the great baseball players play with when he actually got to see the ghost play. You could also use it because he was seeing the great baseball players ghost's playing on his in the process of being built baseball field on his farm. It shows one dream is coming true about watching the ghosts play and that his dream for the baseball field being built on his farm was almost complete and gave him more motivation.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Fantasy-Theme Criticism
Britney Spears
She is a pop singer and a major icon. You can see a lot of the ways she expressed these through her lyrics and her performances on stage and in her music videos.
One example is on her second record the single "Oops!...I did it again." When her first CD had come out she was viewed by the public as an innocent and wholesome teenager. With this song in the music video for the first time she wears sexually suggestive clothing with was out character. In the lyrics she ends the song with "I'm not that innocent," and she was dressed in red with flames in the background. This image was to portray the "devilish" side of her and that she was a changed person not what she used to be.
Another example is in her hit single "Slave 4-U." She is talking about how she felt like a slave to the media and public. In the music video it shows her dressed as a slave and being pulled by people in different directions.
Lastly her most recent tour, and single "Cirrus." This whole album was her come back from all of the horrible things that had happened to her in the past two years. Yet again just like the "Slave 4-U," single takes about her struggle with the media. The music video shows her being the center of a cirrus that is going on. This portrays how she has constantly been put in the spotlight and everything that she does is being watched and judged. It also shows that her life may seem glamours but it's not all the time because she is constantly being watched and told what to do with her life.
The progression of her career has been shown through her albums and it shows how much as a person she was changed and grown from her first image as a wholesome small town girl. She relates her music to what is going on in her life and you can see that through her lyrics and performances.
She is a pop singer and a major icon. You can see a lot of the ways she expressed these through her lyrics and her performances on stage and in her music videos.
One example is on her second record the single "Oops!...I did it again." When her first CD had come out she was viewed by the public as an innocent and wholesome teenager. With this song in the music video for the first time she wears sexually suggestive clothing with was out character. In the lyrics she ends the song with "I'm not that innocent," and she was dressed in red with flames in the background. This image was to portray the "devilish" side of her and that she was a changed person not what she used to be.
Another example is in her hit single "Slave 4-U." She is talking about how she felt like a slave to the media and public. In the music video it shows her dressed as a slave and being pulled by people in different directions.
Lastly her most recent tour, and single "Cirrus." This whole album was her come back from all of the horrible things that had happened to her in the past two years. Yet again just like the "Slave 4-U," single takes about her struggle with the media. The music video shows her being the center of a cirrus that is going on. This portrays how she has constantly been put in the spotlight and everything that she does is being watched and judged. It also shows that her life may seem glamours but it's not all the time because she is constantly being watched and told what to do with her life.
The progression of her career has been shown through her albums and it shows how much as a person she was changed and grown from her first image as a wholesome small town girl. She relates her music to what is going on in her life and you can see that through her lyrics and performances.
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