Lana Del Rey is a pop icon for teenagers everywhere who relate to her emotional, romantic, nostalgia inducing songs. Her songs consist mostly of love, drugs, teenage struggles and loss. Her music is self described as being influenced by Elvis, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra, which nods to the classic
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K-pop — a rising music genre that utilizes sound and styles all over the world, incorporating not only auditory, but visual, cinematic, thematic, and literary elements into music heard by people all around the world. The main points of K-pop include unique lyrics with meanings that may reference previous
The 1971 album “What’s Going On” released by the Motown Record singer Marvin Gaye. A album that was almost not released by Motown due to its heavily political nature. As Motown at the time was all releasing feel good dance songs that could be heard in night clubs across the
Beyoncé’s latest sensational album, Lemonade, mainly focuses on infidelity and reconciliation. In the featured video of the song Hold Up, Beyoncé walks down the streets with a bat in her hand, damaging and smashing anything that gets in her way: cars windows, fire extinguishers. She speaks of how no other
Lady Gaga’s name in itself makes people immediately think of how weird she used to be for the media. But many people don’t know how much of an activist she is for women’s rights as well as the LGBT community. She released a video titled “Til It Happens To You”
M.I.A is an artist known for her controversial songs that address critiques of first world perspectives on the outside world. Most known for her 2007 mega hit “Paper Planes”, she recently put out a new song that focuses on the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis that is wracking the world. While