When artists go through an emotional down fall in there career’s you see some stars fall and other’s reflect to back when it all started to better themselves. As Katy Perry stated in her interview with U.S.A Today Prism is “less over-the-top and more “me””. I have come to realize that when artist put out an album, it isn’t just to see how many copies they can sell but it’s about making music with feelings, getting into there inner self and reaching out to those who admire them, the social text of the music is the heart of every song and the album altogether. A lot of the time artist will write about their emotions but never really behind the sense of what occurred. Here I will take two artists and break down there trails and show how they made them into triumphs through the context of there music. I will describe how these artist were able to create pieces of music that took over a particular emotion and were able to get it’s point across to the listener. These artists will be Katy Perry, and Britney Spears. Lets take a look at what music with emotional context is first, before I go on about these artists. When you think of music you also think of emotion but what is that really? What is an emotion? What causes an emotion? Why do we feel an emotion when we listen to the words of these artists? As started in the article “Theories of Emotion By Kendra Cherry” she stated that psychologist Cannon Bard describes emotion as a message “the thalamus sends a message to the brain in response to a stimulus, resulting in a physiological reaction.” This meaning that the message send by the artists to this listeners triggers our brains emotions therefore we are able to understand what the artist is feeling at the time. If an artist is feeling ... ... middle of paper ... ...re trying to portray. How is it that artists are able to do this? Well a lot of the time the artist themselves are feeling or go through the emotion themselves like I spoke above about Katy Perry and how she took on the emotion of sadness through her devoice and made her audience feel her pain. Britney Spears is another artist who we all saw thrive from this musical context of expression. Unlike Katy Perry Britney didn’t go up in a home of strict Christian parents her life was much rather normal. She also became a pop star and had an emotional divorce but she did not take the route of sadness Katy took in for her album. Britney instead went though a rough more nasty public divorce that caused her to have the emotion of rage. This rage is what triggered her to her album Circus. What the album Circus portrays is what I believe is an emotional rollercoaster of rarge,
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A North Carolina rapper named Jermaine Lamar Cole released his first mixtape called The Come up in May of 2007. The mixtape included a song that had a deep and thoughtful meaning, that song was called "Can 't Cry". In the song J Cole tells us about his life and how he goes through some tough times. He describes what is important to him now he is a grown man and what his goals are which he plans to achieve but gets sidetracked by the world we live in. In this essay I will first explain my definition of what the audiences are and then another sources and finally J Coles own definition from the song. J Cole effectively engages his audiences-men, black men and people who struggle with issues in life by revealing the stereotype that society has
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It is well known that art can express the feelings and emotions of the creator; however, a
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...el. It’s difficult to describe because it’s not something you can analyze; to get near what it’s about you have to play it. And when you’ve caught it, when you’ve got the audience hooked, you always know because it’s like electricity hanging in the air” (Nathan, Ward & Seidel, 2013). She was a remarkable woman with many shown talents and a major influence in the overall world of music.
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