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No Strings Attached by Jo Rob on Pandora
Alexander Peters - live at the FsWs Acoustic Roadshow Vol3
Alexander Peters, singer song writer based out of Annapolis Maryland, was on hand with his quintessential old time country stylings. Here he performs "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Johnny Appleseed" for the crowd. Enjoy...
ANACOSTIA SEASON 4 IS BACK!!!
#NewMusicMonday: Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu - EPA
Event Recap: Tru Skool's 15th Anniversary
Hip hop is not dead: Mary Nichols at TEDxOrlando
Goodbye Hannah Montana: Hello Miley Cyrus
At the 2013 MTV VMAs, Miley Cyrus’ performance left many parents of Hannah Montana fans dismayed, angry, and disappointed! In the onslaught of media coverage of her performance on the VMAs, I find myself asking this question: Why do we care so much about this pop artist’s performance? Before we point the finger at Miley Cyrus, we should point the finger at ourselves. Our society in general has honed the fine art of creating and feeding beasts like Miley Cyrus, Madonna, and Lady GaGa. We do this through our willingness to watch them for hours on end on whatever media that is out there for us to use. Once we have had our fill of the current spectacle, we get tired of the beast that we have created. Then after a while, a new shocking act comes along that captures our attention, and the cycle repeats itself! The author of Ecclesiastic captured this best when he wrote: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”. This observation is true, for Miley Cyrus is not the first young woman to do a sexually charged performance on the VMAs (that award goes to Madonna and her performance of “Like a Virgin”), and she won’t be the last either! I think as a society we need to ask ourselves whether we are angry with her performance, which was the same caliber as Lady GaGa, or are punishing her, because parents feel that their children have lost their role model that first showed them how teens were supposed to act. Perhaps we also expected her to show them how a young woman with fame and fortune should act in public.
If parents are angry with Miley Cyrus for any of these reasons, then let me be the first to say
shame on them! First of all a child should have the following three as their role models: 1) God, 2) Mother, and 3) Father and in that order. Parents who want mentors for their children, they should pick people who share their beliefs and outlooks on life and not celebrities. For when parents pick celebrities to be their children’s role models, they run the risk of the celebrities slipping up. As they tend to do so often, this will in the end leave you the parent with a heartbroken child. Bottom-line when it comes to shaping their child’s perception of how they should act as adults or how the real world is, they the parents have the most influence in that arena, and not Miley Cyrus. In essence, I think that we need to let Miley Cyrus live her life. Remember she is a young woman still trying to find herself in the world. So give her the room she needs to make mistakes and learn from them. Who knows maybe ten or twenty years from now she might look back and say: “Damn, did I really do that” , “No wonder everyone was so mad at me”, or maybe she will be proud of her performance! For all of those parents out there who are mad at how she made the transition from childhood star to adult actress/singer...I hear ya. Yes, I think that this could have been done in a better way without drawing so much attention to sex, but that is the world we live in today. I hope that in the future Miley Cyrus learns to market herself as an intelligent, graceful woman who is not ashamed of her sexuality and charm, but at the same does not demean herself for the mere amusement of a hungry a crowd or investors!
- Reported by Nadia Johnson
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT: Caribgem interviews Indie actress & producer, Vanessa Bailey!
Caribgem talks to Indie actress & director, Vanessa Bailey about her role as in the upcoming film, Three Days. This film is about a romance between "Sophie" a woman in her 40s & "James" a young man in his 20s (Richard Perryman). Daren Cook directed this film.
Follow on Twitter: @vbaileyactor | @threedaysfilm1 | @thecaribgem | @wowuradio
25 Social Media Resources For Musicians
Social Media Resources For Musicians - At this point in time our society at large must have the “news” the instant it happens. With the evolution of social media this instant gratification is not only possible but prevalent. There are several forums available to the consumer at large the choice is all based on your wants, needs and who you are trying to reach.
You may be looking to use a particular type of medium to get your story across or perhaps you’d rather not be limited to 140 characters to say what you have to say. The social media phenomenon has had a profound effect on how businesses run. This change is most noticeable in the music industry where the record label role has drastically changed. They are no longer the middle man between the artists and their fans because the creation of music related social media sites enabled them to communicate directly.
Sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace bring people together, where sites like Spotify, LastFM and 8 tracks allow you to listen to your favorite band or artist free of charge.
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