Introduction
Miley Ray Cyrus was born on November 23, 1992 in Franklin, Tennessee. Her birth name was originally Destiny Hope Cyrus because her parents thought she would bring destiny and hope to the world. She legally changed her name to Miley Ray in 2008 when she was 15. Her mother is Tish Cyrus and her father is actor and country music star Billy Ray Cyrus (Shea). Well known for his song, “Achy Breaky Heart”. She began her career in 2001 at nine years old with small tv shows. However, her career skyrocketed in 2006 when she landed the role in the Disney channel show Hannah Montana. She played the character Miley Stewart who had another life as popstar Hannah Montana. The show had four seasons which lasted until 2011 (Shea). While doing the show she also focused on some other acting roles and also her music career. Also before the showed ended in 2011 she
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From being Hannah Montana during her pre-adolesent years to being on tv and movies screens in her young adult years. She has always been exposed and very open about herself. In a Billboard interview she talked openly about her life including her stance on drugs, politics and her everyday life. She stated, ““I love talking to people, and I approach them in a normal, ‘Don’t treat me different, ’cause I’m not’ way. That’s what started this evolution for me, getting out of my Dead Petz phase,” she says, referring to her 2015 album, the tour for which featured her in a unicorn outfit with a strap-on phallus. “People stare at me anyway, but people stare at me a lot when I’m dressed as a [freaking] cat”” (Norris, 2017). While sharing herself with the world Miley is exhibiting Jung's theory of extraversion. Jung theorized that, “exteraversion is an attitude in which the psyche is oriented outward to the objective world” (Engler, 2014, p 73). Miley is more comfortable with her outside and exposed life. She has a very strong attitude and way of speaking that
Selena Quintanilla Perez was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena grew up understanding Spanish, but English was her first language. At the age of five Selena saw her brother learning to play the guitar and became jealous of the attention he was getting. She picked up a songbook and began to sing. Her family quickly turned their attention to her strong and beautiful voice. In the first grade Selena excelled at a game called Jump the Brook, in which two ropes are placed side by side and each kid takes a turn jumping across.1 In middle school Selena was in honors classes and made A’s and B’s. Selena used her allowance to put clothes on layaway. As a teenager, Selena hung all of her awards on the wall next to the staircase in her family’s house. As an adult, Selena was very involved with kids. She was a spokeswoman for the D.A.R.E. Program.
Biological: Lady Gaga’s distinguishable outfits catch everyone’s eye whenever she goes to a Hollywood event. She chooses these outfits to receive more attention than those that are dressed normally. This may suggest that she has histrionic personality disorder where she finds herself needing to be the center of attention.
Whitney Houston was born in August 9th, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. Whitney came from a long line of illustrious singers, for her mother, Cissy Houston, was an American gospel singer. Her mother was the Choir minister at “New Hope Baptist Church”. As well, her cousin Dionne Warwick was also an American singer and TV-host, her best songs include “Walk on By” and “Heartbreaker”. Finally, her godmother, Aretha Franklin, was an accomplished American singer and musician. Her father, John Russell Houston, was also an artist in a sense through his work as a professional theatrical manager, although he didn’t have a career in singing.
Taylor continues to maintain her clean appearance by making wise attire decisions. Her consciousness of being a role model and inspiring young girls is a decision that she chooses to permanently tattoo into her mind. On a special for 60 Minutes, she tells Leslie Stahl that when she gets dressed in the morning, she thinks of the opinions of the millions of fans that have confided in her (Swift). She is aware that something as simple as a wardrobe choice is something that makes young women look up to her. A single provocative piece of clothing she chooses to wear has the ability to alter the dressing styles for girls, but she does not try to experiment with risqué choices. Taylor knows that her clothing choices are being monitored from such a young audience, and she does not find this a challenging task. In an older interview for Glamour Magazine she states that it is easy for her to keep her clothes on and refuses to take them off (Swift). Swift expresses no intent to exposes flesh because she wants to ...
Both girls have reported to be “in Christian faith”. Miley is an avid supporter of gay rights and is extremely vocal in this topic; even having a tattoo of an equal sign on her right ring finger. Sadie and her family recently had a big controversy from her grandfather stating “homosexuality is a sin.” Sadie
1). After graduating from Dartmouth College, Kaling began her impressive career working as a writer and actress in the hit television series, The Office (Mead 1). From there, Kaling garnered America’s attention with her very own television series appropriately titled, The Mindy Project (1). With her newfound popularity, Kaling allows her fans a peek into her life and her innermost thoughts through her two autobiographies: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? written in 2011 and Why Not Me? written in 2015. The second and most recent book is the focus of my paper as it “delves deeper into Mindy’s inner thoughts”, according to the highest rated customer review (Ashley
A couple of years after she got out of rehab, MTV filmed a short documentary of Lovato’s mental health issues called “Demi Lovato: Stay Strong”. Throughout the film, Lovato describes her life as a daily battle to stay healthy. Soon after rehab, she resumed her singing career and was extremely nervous about performing again. However at a meet and greet before Lovato performed, a young girl praised Lovato for her bravery and courage and said that Lovato had encouraged her to not wear her wig that night. Demi Lovato is a prime example of an encouraging role model because she has turned her life with bipolar II disorder into a positive message for her
Alicia Keys was born in 1981, in New York. From the young age of 7 years old, she began piano lessons. After graduating from the Professional Performance Arts School, she signed a deal with Clive Davis, the head of Arista Records. Davis left Arista to start J Records and Alicia Keys followed. Her album Songs in A Minor released in 2001, and went platinum five times over and earned her five Grammys. She followed up with hit albums such as The Diary of Alicia Keys released in 2003, As I Am in 2007 and Girl on Fire in 2009, all of which won the her Grammys.
The attitudes and morals expressed in Hannah Montana often reflected those of her real life as Miley Cyrus. During several episodes of Hannah Montana, Montana was placed in situations that caused her to have to make a decision based on her the things her parents had taught her. After much thought, Montana typically made the decision to do what was morally and socially acceptable. This type of attitude and leadership made Hannah Montana a role model for many young girls around the country. After the ending of the long-lived Hannah Montana series, the suppressed identity of Miley Cyrus emerged.
Continuing, she did a photoshoot for the cover of Vanity Fair, which resulted in controversy because parents did not want their daughters to imitate Miley. This was a precursor to Miley 's now reconstructed star text because she understood that controversy brought in a lot of attention, and she embraced it whether it was good or bad. That 's why she no longer wanted to be the stereotypical-looking woman, so she cut her hair short, got tattoos all over her body, and started dressing provocatively and doing nude photoshoots. She started to change up her songs from strictly pop and country music to doing R&B, rap, and unclassifiable genres. This led her to working with many people from all over the entertainment industry, predominantly with African Americans. Since changing genres, she started singing and rapping about partying and smoking marijuana, which she would be spotted doing with some of the rappers she rapped with. She made twerking, sticking one 's tongue out to the side, and foam fingers cool, which is apart of her controversial and outlandish brand. Overall, Miley Cyrus reconstructed her star text in order to stay relevant in today 's ever-changing
Britney Spears was born on December 2, 1981. She lived in Kentwood, Louisiana and was constantly performing in front of people and always wanted to be on 'Star Search'. Britney tried out for the New Mickey Mouse Club at age 8 and then again at 11 and made it. Then she went solo because her talent was evident and she wanted more (A & E Television Networks, 2011).
“Fitting in” is a concept that is seen a lot in adolescence. Teenagers will do pretty much anything at times to have friends or appear to be “cool.” That is exactly what happens to Tracy in this film. As the film begins, Tracy is a good, simple girl, and her pureness all changes when she befriends the most popular girl in school, Evie Zamora. Evie is very rebellious. She does not have a strong authority figure in her life (Levy-Hinte, London, & Hardwicke, 2003). The sweet, innocent young Tracy is soon to be completely transformed. Evie is vividly a bad influence on Tracy from the beginning, as seen when she influences Tracy to steal something the first time they hang out together (Levy-Hinte, et al., 2003). Stealing is illegal and considered a minor crime and turns Tracy into a delinquent (Berk, 2011). Tracy’s identity development is heavily influenced by her new friendship with Evie from that moment on. Evie is so popular, but she makes very poor choices and Tracy follows her lead because she wants ...
In squeaky’s interior thinking we can see that she believes “you should be trying to be yourself” which is also shown in an important line from the song believer which is
...s herself and her true identity. She realizes that she isn't always going to be the girl that everyone wants her to be but as long as she is true to herself that all that really matters (MTV, 2011).
Taylor Swift was born Taylor Alison Swift (Rawson). She was born on December 13, 1989 (Higgins). She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania (http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Swift__Taylor.html). “ She grew up in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania”(Rawson). Her mom’s name is Andrea Swift . She is a successful businesswoman. Her dad’s name is Scott Swift. He is a stockbroker. They named her Taylor because her parents did not want discriminated by her gender before anybody met her (Spencer). “ She grew up on a Christmas-tree farm” (http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Swift__Taylor.html). On the farm, there were” several cats and 7 horses” (Spencer). She rode horses competitively (Spencer). She has a brother, Austin, who is 2 years younger than her (Schartwtz ). Her grandmother was an opera singer (Spencer). That is where Taylor got her talent (Spencer).