Monday 28 May 2012

Playlist

Do you love me - the contours
Between the cheats - Amy Winehouse
All alone - T Rex
Shakin' all over - Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
Be Brave - The Strange Boys
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Gang Of Four - Natural's not in it
Alarm Clock - The Rumble Strips
How Soon is Now - The Smiths
Laser Love - T Rex
If You Wanna - The Vaccines
Suffer for Fashion - Of Montreal
Once and Never Again - The Long Blondes
R U Mine? - Arctic Monkeys
Aphrodisiac - Soixie & The Banshees
Twist and Shout - The Beatles
Valerie (68' version) - Amy Winehouse
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles

Tuesday 15 May 2012

How is Lady Gaga a Postmoder Artist?


Saturday 21 April 2012

Cedar laser postmodern music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_J9MR6uyns&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWJBWyyyCak&feature=youtube_gdata_player

After watching britains got talent this weekend, I researched one of he contestants who claimed to write his own songs. After researching, his songs seemed I have a David Bowie 1980's electronic Europop sound and by taking all these influences and mixing eras, this could make 'cesar laser' a postmodern artist. He is a 17 year old boy which shows that postmodern texts can be created by anyone and not just famous 'statement' directors like Tarentino.

Wednesday 18 April 2012

The Specials, Vampire Weekend.


An example of Postmodern Media Artists could be the indie band Vampire Weekend. I feel that when listening to them, they seem to have a slight 1970's ska sound about them which reminds me of the band 'The Specials'. This song sung by lead singer Terry Hall 'Too Much Too Young', I feel resembles the Vamp Weekend song 'Holiday' quite abit.

Thursday 15 March 2012

Applying Johnathan Kramer's theory points 4 and 15 to real life examples.

  • 4.challenges barriers between 'high' and 'low' styles - This relates to using an unusual cultural 'blur' that you would not expect to hear together or see together, for example, mixing classical music with pop music.
  • - An example of this is within an avant-garde track from Lady Gaga's current album 'Born This Way' entitled 'Government Hooker'. She explained that the track was 'exploring the mix of techno rock with classical overtones'. You can hear the operatic and dramatic vocals at the start and as the more techno dance beat comes in, they overlap to create a 'postmodern' sound.

  • 15. Presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities - This means involving references to todays society that are temporary, for example, a link to a political leader in a rap song that may not be relevant in five years time and also involving references and different intercontextual links.
  • - An example of this would be Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' feat.Beyonce. This intercontextual link is that in return for featuring in Lady Gaga's video, Beyonce asked Gaga if she would also feature on her track entitled 'Videophone'. So in theory, they did a 'phone swap'. The link to society is also that they are both strong female icons in the music industry today and the collaboration might not be so relevant in the future. Another intercontextual link in 'Telephone' is that it was a direct link from Lady Gaga's music video to 'Paparazzi', carrying on the storyline. I have posted all three videos below.

Monday 12 March 2012

How is Lady Gaga a Postmodern Artist?

I decided to produce both a detailed prezi presentation for this task as well as an animoto presentation for beforehand.