... all lyrics from popular songs in today's pop culture. These are just a few of the very many risqué lyrics to today's most popular songs amongst teenagers. Not only are the lyrics very suggestive, but also some of the videos for these songs are downright raunchy. Popular music videos portray women in a very negative way. Music videos fling messages to young women that ... in the video. The video contains many women, including Christina, acting out an assortment of freakish male fantasies. Christina Aguilera isn't the only pop princess who's all grown up, Britney Spears is also making he...

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Popular Radio These days you get into your car, flip on the radio, and what do you hear? A barrage of fake music. Lets name just a few to familiarize you with what I am speaking of: Back Street Boys, N" Sync, Brittany Spears, 98 Degrees, Christina Agulera, Jessica Simpson, the list goes on and on. Where did this surge of teenybopper music come from? Well, it has always been around, yet I don't think it has played such a role in popular music like it does today. Groups like New Kids on the Block and Minueto were some of the first "boy bands" and Paula Abdul and Madonna were among the first "fem...

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... Shakira are all beautiful young ladies that made it into the Top-10 of the world's music charts. On the other hand they trigger more and more controversies with their provocative Fashion-Trend and explicit song lyrics. Due to a Mass Media Presentation of those hip-shaking Pop Sirens through television and magazines our Teenage generation has been contaminated with idolizing a look and ... ...

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... that we hear, but we each hear it in different ways. In "The Voice-, a chapter from the book Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music, Frith discusses the voice as: a musical instrument, a body, a person, and a character. Frith discusses these ideas through the words "Gestures- and " ... is difficult to understand the meaning Frith places on the terms "gestures- and "utterances-. Though, he states both are ways of making meaning in music: what is the relationship between the voice as a carrier of sounds, the singing voice, making "gestures,"" and the voice as a carrier of ... wor...

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... course, the more provocative and revealing her on-stage wardrobe became, the less reasonable that claim seemed to be. At the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, the crowd went wild as the gorgeous blonde onstage strips off her tuxedo suit piece to reveal the nude body stocking underneath, all the ... 4 U,"" in which she sings about not being able to control herself around someone she meets at a club. Although Spears claims the song is about being a slave to music, critics have a hard time believing that. A few weeks ago, Kendel Ehrlich (Maryland's First Lady) said, "If I had an opportunity to s...

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... Not Yet a Girl, Not Quite 5 times Platinum With all the flury surrounding her deal with Pepsi, consumers stopped paying as much attention to her music. In fall 2001, she announced that her third album, the self-entitled Britney, would be released, and that her first single would be the gratuitously ... new song on MTV's VMA"S, because she apparently, "loved animals". Her song, "I"m a slave 4U", was apparently about being "a slave to the music" and had absolutely nothing to do with sex, even though the video had her faking orgasms and getting licked by numerous men. She did, however, ......

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... & roll. Rock rolled into the 80s where hip hop dance became popular. Now we've made it through the millennium, with the likes of Britney Spears and other pop royalty making more advances in dance. All of these different styles of dance were instigated by the youth of the times. There is an overlapping theme in these eras, ... men would willingly spend most of their weekly earnings at the dance halls for an hour of dancing. Rock & roll ultimately took the place of the dance hall music in the 50s, and was widespread by the 80s. For the while that rock & roll took over, minds were more on th...

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... she did, and mean each every word of every song on the CD. The lyrics of Aguilera's song meets the double standard that today's group of girls is faced with. Pop culture often promotes sex but still expects young women to act differently than their male peers, but Aguilera talks about the other side of the issue. Christina sings out in ... like "whore." It is not fair how girls get treated and the only way to better the situation is to confront it, as Aguilera and Lil" Kim do in their pop hit. Both Christina Aguilera and Lil" Kim have tried to change this double standard in other ways b...

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... mother, for all the love she gave/and every morning that I wake I look back on yesterday/and I"m OK." All the drama and fear is surprisingly how Christina became interested in music. She would go into her room and usually sing for her stuffed animals. "As a child, I ran up to my room when all the fighting was going on and everything was ... Night Live", and has graced the covers of many magazines including Teen People, and Entertainment Weekly. She has won many Grammies, including the Grammy for Best New Artist, and Best Pop Vocal Album. Christina Aguilera is a truly amazing person. Man...

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