Madonna Successfully Incorporating Sexuality Into Music...

Madonna Madonna has been a very influential female popstar over the last 20 years: to sell her music she has publicised herself through the media, and through this media she has stuck to the concept that sex does sell. Madonna was born on the 16th of August 1958 as Louise Veronica Ciccone, in Bay City, Michigan. She began her journey into the most influential industry and medium by moving to New York to become a ballerina. From this young age she was very aware of the human body and the way it is perceived. She knew that the body needed to be sold in some way, to make it in these types of industries. At this stage of her life she became anorexic in an attempt to become the†¦show more content†¦By using and exploiting her sexuality, with the use of pictures, music, lyrics, and books, her image is almost always associated with the word sex. Through Madonnas music we see that sexuality plays a large role in many aspects: the context, the names of albums and the lyrics. Examples of these are from her second album like a Virgin which was less poppier than the first but sultrier and sexier, focussing on sexual issues. Her fourth album Erotica seemed to continue with this theme, which was one of her most sex-orientated albums. So how has Madonna used her sexual powers to influence the music industry? Her first book Sex She is symbolic for women in our generation, as she is the first female pop star to have such an enormous following, and she broke the conventions of the usual 80s popstar. Madonna seemed to give pop a new dimension, and made the genre and the industry more female orientated. In the 1990s Madonna was the highest paying female artist in the pop music industry, which was highly dominated by men in the 1980s, such as Prince and George Michael. With each album she seems to reinvent herself, and every second album seems to be sexually orientated, like she is somewhat taking a break in selling sex. Examples of this trend are within her first few albums. She firstly released Madonna, a very fun and youthful dance/pop album,Show MoreRelatedTeaching Notes Robert Grant - Strategy 4th Edition51665 Words   |  207 PagesContents Introduction 3 1 Madonna 21 2 Laura Ashley Holdings plc: The Battle for Survival 26 3 The US Airline Industry in 2002 33 4 DaimlerChrysler and the World Automobile Industry 41 5 Wal-Mart Stores Inc., May 2002 49 6 Eastman Kodak: Meeting the Digital Challenge 62 7 Organizational Restructuring within the Royal Dutch/Shell Group 70 8 Harley-Davidson, Inc., January 2001 77 9 Online Broking Strategies: Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab and E*Trade 83 10 11 12 Emi and the CT ScannerRead MoreGlee Essay9324 Words   |  38 Pagesbut can bring the show away from its narrative engagement and this mix of sincerity and cynicism that musical numbers have often been harnessed in service of. â€Å"Dream On† brought back this dynamic and foregrounded it in contrast to some of the more music-themed recent episodes. Neil Patrick Harris is the king of bitter(sweet) cynicism, and his performance as Bryan Ryan maintained the comedy in what otherwise was in danger of becoming a maudlin episode. Rachel and Artie’s storylines gave both charactersRead MoreHow Does Media Affect Children11485 Words   |  46 Pagesstations, including ITV, schedule programmes with the intention of attracting particular audience groups so that advertisers will buy slots within them. However, other countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Sweden successfully operate a range of restrictions on advertising around children’s programming or advertisements directed at children (Dibb, 1996). Influencing behaviour and attitudes We asked parents and carers in the survey whether they believed that what theyRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesdid occur. Or, suppose you take an author to be arguing when in fact she is explaining. If you complain to yourself about the quality of her argument and dismiss her passage as unconvincing, you will have failed to get the explanation that is successfully communicated to other readers of the same passage. An argument and an explanation are different because speakers present them with different intentions. Arguments are intended to establish their conclusion. Explanations arent. They are intended