My Favorite Singer

Slipknot Band Iowa is best known as The middle of nowhere. Iowa has never had a singular voice to put it on the musical map since the dawning of rock’ n’ roll in the early 50’s. However, nine young men from Des Moines, wearing industrial coveralls and surrealistic home made masks. They started their own…

Eminem Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, has had many achievements in his life, but life wasn’t always good. Growing up in a poor trailer park in Warren Mich. He failed out of ninth grade, which led to him dropping out of high school. He tried to go back but couldn’t do it, he just…

In 1979, Michael Jackson released his fifth album Off the Wall, and it was a successful record, selling over 20 million copies worldwide. Between the years of Off the Wall and Thriller, Michael Jackson was in a transitional period. During that time, he became unhappy, and he said, “Even at home, I’m lonely. I sit…

Marilyn Manson is a name that one hears everywhere they go. Today’s media is constantly reporting on Marilyn Manson’s controversial looks, shows, and religious beliefs. Manson’s controversial nature has gained him much infamousy in the media world today. Many people believe that Marilyn Manson is strange, considering he wears various women’s clothing, heavy makeup, and…

I’ve chosen “God Bless The Child” a Jazz/Blues song composed by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog. God Bless The Child was a single, released May 9th, 1941 by Okeh recording label. This song was sung by Billie Holiday and backed up by Eddie Heywood and his orchestra. Billie Holiday, whose birth name is Eleanora Fagan…

Music has been around for thousands of years. Music appeals to everyone. When was the last time you have heard someone say, “I hate all music.”? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teen’s minds. Rap is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in cities all over America and heavy metal is…

Elvis Aaron Presley Elvis Aaron Presley was born January 8, 1938 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis sang in the Assembly of God choir. At age ten, Elvis won a school singing contest and he taught himself the principles of the guitar. Elvis’ family is very interesting. His parents are Gladys and Vernon. Jesse Garon, Elvis’ twin…

Breakdancing Breakdancing Breakdancing a form of African American dance that emerged from the hip hop culture of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid-1970s. Drawing upon several African American dance forms, break dancing coalesced in the 1970s and reached its peak in popularity during the 1980s. Breakdancing developed out of the Bronx, New York,…

Although their songwriting styles were increasingly contrasting, there were still striking similarities, as both songs were about the Liverpool of their childhood. Lennon’s lyrics to ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, however, dramatized a far more complex inner dialogue, characterized by stumbling qualifications (‘That is, I think, I disagree’). Musically, the songs were similarly intriguing, with ‘Penny Lane’…

This is an essay of the rap song ‘Stan’ by Eminem. I will, by way of analysing it’s lyrics, show the consequences of idol-worshiping and how the feeling of affinity could drive a fan to delusion. As the song begins, the chorus sets us in a rather gloomy mood. We perceive Stan as melancholic and…