Gender Stereotypes In Music Essay
Introduction
The music scene now is a booming industry, raking in millions of profit monthly for both the artist and their producers. From the fans’ standpoint, music increasingly seems to be more of a business than an art as we can see from the addition of mainstream music. The producers do not necessarily make music or music videos that benefit its audience, but instead those that will attract a lot of views and thus revenue. There are a few ways for the producers to do this, most notably with sexual content, excessive nudity or with a unique twist. With the first two being self-explanatory and apparent in almost all music videos nowadays (generic), we will look in depth regarding the issue of a unique style. Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel, Annie Lenox and Michael …show more content…
This is a valid point, and one that needs to be overturned in order for this argument to be even more convincing. In this essay, we covered two types of success, commercial and popularity. It is true that there are many stars, for example Katy Perry, Taylor Swift that follow the same mold of female artists and are tremendously successful in both of the categories. The one point that they lack behind artist like Annie Lennox and Michael Jackson though, is their place in history. We will forever remember Annie Lennox as the female artist that so convincingly dressed up as a male, and with so many different characters that mesmerized us. Michael Jackson on the other hand will be remembered as the ultimate “freak”, where he is the model of uniqueness and how he displayed it to the world and won over millions of fans. They revolutionized the music industry and hold a special place in the history of music. Mainstream artists though might not be individually recognized, but categorized together in the tier lower than those that helped to bring about a new dimension in
The music scene now is a booming industry, raking in millions of profit monthly for both the artist and their producers. From the fans’ standpoint, music increasingly seems to be more of a business than an art as we can see from the addition of mainstream music. The producers do not necessarily make music or music videos that benefit its audience, but instead those that will attract a lot of views and thus revenue. There are a few ways for the producers to do this, most notably with sexual content, excessive nudity or with a unique twist. With the first two being self-explanatory and apparent in almost all music videos nowadays (generic), we will look in depth regarding the issue of a unique style. Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel, Annie Lenox and Michael …show more content…
This is a valid point, and one that needs to be overturned in order for this argument to be even more convincing. In this essay, we covered two types of success, commercial and popularity. It is true that there are many stars, for example Katy Perry, Taylor Swift that follow the same mold of female artists and are tremendously successful in both of the categories. The one point that they lack behind artist like Annie Lennox and Michael Jackson though, is their place in history. We will forever remember Annie Lennox as the female artist that so convincingly dressed up as a male, and with so many different characters that mesmerized us. Michael Jackson on the other hand will be remembered as the ultimate “freak”, where he is the model of uniqueness and how he displayed it to the world and won over millions of fans. They revolutionized the music industry and hold a special place in the history of music. Mainstream artists though might not be individually recognized, but categorized together in the tier lower than those that helped to bring about a new dimension in