Women Portrayed Through Media and The Effects

Women Portrayed Threw Media and the Effects

Back in the 1970’s Female singers had increase to be the largest amount. The cause of the increase of the big amount was because of the inspiration that they had from the 1920 where the female singers such as Patti Smith, Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett and Chrissie Hynde would “showed that women could not only be important musicians and band leaders but had the personal vision and distinctive voice to deliver compelling messages of their own.” (Fred 1) The 1970’s, what most female singers had in common was that they would outspoken there true self threw there lyrics. While in the 1990’s was when the media decided to make a big switch and there was many censorship. Now a day, the new imagery of the female singers is displaying sex roles behaviors and affects the adolescent. From the year 2000 and 2013, there has been a dramatic change. The question still remains, is there any positive role model for the youth to follow? This leads to teenagers and even with the difference of every female singer, they conclude with the similarity of imagery. The media presents performances like those of Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé that targets teens and young girls and create negative role models for girls and teenagers to rebel and misbehave.

As everyone must know the talented Miley Cyrus started off by being part of the Hanna Montana show were Miley Cyrus herself was the protagonist. Miley was at the age of 11at that time. The role that Miley Cyrus has in the Hanna Montana show was that Miley was trying to act and live as a normal girl due to the fact that in the show Hanna Montana/Miley Cyrus was a super star, which was quite the whole purpose of creating the show. Many of the teenager...

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...nce, negative role models. Parents have to be on the look out to be cautious of their children activities and cyber world. Media can also change and limit what the children should be able to see. As a result The media presents performances like those of Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé that targets teens and young girls and create negative role models for girls and teenagers to rebel and misbehave.

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