In her music video “7/11,” Beyoncé appears as an indefatigable party-girl who explicitly expresses her passion and vitality: spinning crazily on the porch, dancing widely in the corridor, and acting hilariously in the center of a party room. This liveliness intensifies as the video approaches to its end in which the music accelerates, the background movements increases, and Beyoncé’s laugh expands. Underneath her endless energy lies the game 7/11, which incorporates alcohol to drive up the atmosphere in parties. Through the joint effect of rhythm and motions, the closing sequence indicates that 7/11 and its alcohol component assist Beyoncé in rocking the party, giving her the ultimate thrill as well as heating up the entire video.
Featuring her stillness, the beginning of this sequence frames the tranquility before Beyoncé entering 7/11. In the center of the scene, sitting in a yoga pose surrounded by smooth-floating, non-diegetic music, Beyoncé seems relaxed and still. This Lotus Position reflects her calmness as this cross-legged pose serves for relaxation in yoga. Time seems stopped as she remains motionless. In addition, the peaceful music with
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Sometimes right side up, sometimes upside down, Beyoncé turns a full circle in the shot. Such continuously accelerating movements create dizziness that the drunks experience, implying the beginning of the game. Together with Beyoncé’s crazed hand swings, expressive finger-pointing gesture, and expanding laughter, the rotations also signals the start of excitements. Nevertheless, in the meantime, the crescendo comes, further stressing the growing thrill. Clear beats, drum-like sounds, and fast rhythm mix together, simulating the raising heart beats and the arousing excitements. This passion originated from 7/11 keeps escalating, spreading out the happiness and
Ten minutes after lining up, I went inside the nightclub. From the door, I could hear the song and the beat of the bass so loud that my heart could feel it. Inside the nightclub, I saw people were dancing everywhere, on dancing floor, on their own seats, everywhere. They would dance and take a big gulp of their beer. Even the bartenders were dancing too, following the rhythm of the loud funky music. The rainbow rays of light moved through the club to make the mood even more exciting and funky.
It’s no question that Janet Jackson is one of the most iconic and influential artist of all time. She has sold over 100 million albums; her tours have had some the highest selling debuts of all time, not to mention the chart topping hits she has created over the past 30 years. Janet’s presence alone is iconic. She has left an unforgettable impression on the music industry as a whole. Her music has affected fans and music lovers all around the world. Her influence is simply not a question it is a salutation to a musical icon that has embedded her legacy into musical history.
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Raves are often thought of as a “religious experience” displaying the audience as a “dance tribe” causing these electronic dance music culture “as spiritualties of life” (St John 12). There is no denying that the rave consists of “cultures whose participants committed to an ethos most famously expressed as Peace, Love, Unity and Respect (PLUR)” (St John 3). These participants have reported life- changing experiences, transcendence, and even conveying anecdotes of “ascension and re- enchantment” (St John 3). According to Graham St. John, “ [the] rave exemplifies the cultural phenomenon of religion, particularly that which, Bastide regarded ‘instituant’ or ‘savage’ religion rather than the domesticated or ‘instituted’ forms associated with institutional religion,” (St. John 3). Essentially, the rave functions as a religious community but not in the traditional sense; the DJ is thought of as the shaman and the dance floor is the communita (St John 5). Additionally, both the “ecstatic” experiences and ritual framework of raves intensifies the sense of belonging and demonstrates communal characteristics. The ravers experience a reconnection endemic and is considered to be “tribal” by the participants (St. John 9-10). Furthermore, this tribal nature of the ravers allows them to experience a sense of connectedness and inner peace with themselves. When a raver described this feeling as stating, “The MDMA experience makes you perceive by a kind of intuition, the real essence of your being. It’s not something elaborated by your conscious or unconscious mind, it’s something you suddenly realize you know without any doubt. You know the truth because you have experienced it. Now that you know that you, me, everything is one, or God as you wi...
Superstar Beyonce Knowles was People magazine's 2012 World's Most Beautiful Woman. She is also a spokesperson for L'Oreal cosmetics. Beyonce is happily married to Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, one of the most successful entertainers in rap history. Although Jay-Z is a behemoth in the entertainment world, he accomplished this based on talent, not looks. He and Beyonce are a true American power couple.
The selection thesis: “Lorde’s eighth grade graduation was supposed to mark the end of her childhood. But it was her Fourth of July graduation-present trip to Washington, D.C. that enormously marked the end of her greenness, because there she was with confronted the abrasive reality of racism. “The picnic is seen to be Lorde’s mother’s idea which indicates how she takes care of her family as a whole, due to the fact that she provided two different kinds of pickles, covers the peaches individually so they don’t get discolor, and places them in a tin of rosewater for untidy hands. As a way of being a good mother is proven by Lorde’s mother like packing the items her family will need, such as “the marigolds from Cushman’s Bakery and rock-cakes from Newton’s” which is described in the paragraph 4.
In the music video, “Doses and Mimosas,” the Cherub successfully portrays that drugs and alcohol is the road to happiness. The Cherub shows the viewers that using drugs and alcohol will resolve all problems. Their video promotes joyous times will occur when your under the influence. In each scene, everyone is bored out of their minds. Once drugs or alcohol gets involved, everyone’s reaction changes. They become alive. They become excited. Their body languages and their moods change in an instant.
Some could say dance events are just as fun sober as they are on something. Some could say substances enhance an individual’s festival experience. Either of these opinions could be right, but what remains a fact is that substances are indeed, in one way or another, deeply involved with music. It is not because of the music itself, however influential it may seem, but rather the choice of fans that has caused this. Everyone wants to have a great experience at a music festival. If they are offered a greater experience, then of course they will be open-minded. Although substances may be an experience for some, they may be the divider between life and death for others. From alcohol poisoning at Toby Keith shows and meth use at Metallica concerts, substance abuse has proven to be something widespread and dangerous throughout music festivals (Baca, par. 8). Society can make substances a taboo, say ...
The novel 1984, written by George Orwell in 1949, details the life of a one Winston Smith and his constant, life long battle to defeat Big Brother. This dystopian vision of the future serves as a reminder to the reader that anything can happen, but it is up to humanity to shape what kind of future is wanted in the end. Although Orwell’s novel is rather convincing to the people of this time, it serves only as a warning to one of many outcomes that the world could face. This book was Orwell’s idea of how life could have ended up; had people not realized that there is always a way to change what we do not like in life. Through the author’s many literary techniques, he was able to weave in meaning and importance to simple everyday objects
Hundreds of feet pound against the floor, sending it to its near death as it concaves with every step. Sweat rolls down my neck as the music reaches nearly 100 decibels. My hands, aching from the death grip of the boy next to me, are dragged forward to keep up with the swift kolo line that moves through the maze of the slick, sweat-filled dance floor like it is an art form. As the song approaches its twentieth straight minute, I become conscious of the energy surrounding me and realize that these people, this dance, and this culture define me, the people’s favor. The gracious and dear girl, also known as the people’s favor, is the definition of Milena, or Mila for short, and that is me.
The animation starts with a stoic shot of the original painting, then the camera begins to zoom in on the woman sitting at the table. In the background of the scene, the audience can hear the sound of diners eating, drinking, and conversing along with the sound of silverware colliding with plates. Then in a swift and sudden movement, the woman eyes start to partially close, and she begins to gaze at a glass of Absinthe and an empty bottle before snapping her eyes back to the table in front of her. A high pitched ambient sound then starts to play signifying that something is off, such as the woman's perception of reality. The woman repeats this action many different times until the objects and table in front of her begin to move and warp in
In an interview with Vice, co-director Warren Fu stated that Julian Casablancas was “a little cryptic and hard to understand” because his vision for the music video was so abstract. However, the characters’ powerful performances in the video truly help to tell the story in a way that would be otherwise hard to convey effectively. Fu noted that Alex Carapetis, the band member who plays the man at the bar, was “definitely channeling some inner demons” while shooting the emotional drunken scene. This was clear upon watching the video – the performance was passionate and seemed too real to come from a person with no background in acting – and thus made Carapetis’ struggles resonate with the viewer. We never learn of the specific struggles any of these characters endure, which, according to Fu, was intentional. Fu stated that, “Julian just preferred to leave them vague and for them to be…feelings,” in reference to Casablancas’ desire to evoke a personal reaction with the abstract and distant storytelling in the video. The scenes of chaos spread intermittently throughout can likely be attributed to, as Fu notes, Casablancas desire to convey “a general end of the world” and to “keep it vague and not be one particular thing, just that everything is going to shit.” As one would expect, Fu eventually stated in his interview that the “Human Sadness” music video was the most challenging
In the beginning, the dancers start on the ground and in the motions of the music and essentially “slipping” through the past there was this rise and sink motion that was fluid. Both dancers arced, spoked and carved. Renee made lots of lines with her entire body as he held her straight (horizontally) in his arms and she also arced as she put her arms around him to hang on to him and as she let go of him she continued to make circle with her feet. In addition, in the beginning of the video, they created an infinity symbol with their legs and feet to an extent signify the past as always being a part of your life even after you slip through and let go.
We have more or less gender stereotype and create our own set of standards how men and women are supposed to behave. The music video delivers a weird impression that something is wrong with the story because the characters in the video are acting opposite from society’s expectations of gender stereotype. The video portrays a couple’s normal daily life, which may have been seen everywhere, and it’s nothing special except that the perspectives of males and females are opposite from what we would expect. The main cast includes Beyoncé as a wife who is a police officer and Eddie Goines as her supportive husband who works at an office. In the video, the storyline is slightly twisted because Beyoncé
The music video “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry portrays an Egyptian Queen searching for her love. The video takes place in a modernized version of Memphis, Egypt a crazy long time ago. It successfully combines Hip-Hop culture and Ancient Egyptian culture. Kings from a variety of places across the world come confidently to make the Queen their “one and only” true love. A far-reaching line of men bearing gifts await their judgement whether they are truly hers or not and meet their doom. In “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry the video takes the perspective of the mate less Queen, uses descriptive diction from the lyrics of the song, and symbolic imagery to convey the message that men are to beware of a powerful woman.