Homage – does your chosen artist use other people’s music in a respectful way? Are they bringing a potentially overlooked or forgotten style to a new audience?
- Sampled La Di Da Di by Doug E. Fresh in We Can't Stop
- We Can't Stop we sampled in two songs - We Can't stop by Mike Stud and United State of Pop 2013 (Living the Fantasy) by DJ Earworm
- We Can't Stop was covered in 13 songs.
- Miley has made several covers including Jolene by Dolly Parton. (below)
- Hannah Montana's The best of both worlds was covered in 2 songs - Le Meilleur Des Deux by Sarah and Best of Both Worlds by Eliza Lacerda and Mannu
Pastiche – does you chose artist use other peoples music in order to mock it and its fans? Are they attempting to damage the ‘authority’ of a style of music?
Bricolage – does your chosen artist use music from different time periods or genres? Does this change the ‘meaning’ of the original song?
She uses a mix of hip hop and country on her newest album 'bangerz.' shows the contrast between different influences and the range she has vocally.
Intertextual References – does your artist reference other songs (lyrically, melodically, stylistically, visually) in their work?
Wrecking Ball -
Simulacrum – Is your artist ‘real’ or merely playing a ‘character’? For many ‘mainstream’ artists, their image is just as important as their sound (if not more so), postmodern artists play with ideas of image in the way they re represent themselves.
Miley Cyrus plays both Miley Stuart and Hannah Montana so we don't actually know who the real Miley Cyrus is or whether she is just playing a character. In recent years Miley has changed her image from 'Disney sweetheart' to someone who is more controversial. Hannah Montana was a TV programme on Disney where Miley Cyrus played a teenager called Miley Stewart who was secretly a pop artist which is postmodern because Miley Cyrus is a pop star in real life, so is she playing herself? We don't know.
Miley's approximated Net worth is over 150 million dollars - is that all we see her as? an object?
Consumption – how does your chosen artist wish their music to be consumed? Is there an artefact (object) that accompanies their music?
She has worked with people like Terry Richardson who directed the stripped down Wrecking Ball video where Miley appears naked and distressed.
Miley Cyrus has released several album including her newest release 'Bangerz.'
Her music is also avaible to download via iTunes or over the internet through bittorrent and similar sites.
Hannah Montana had a film made and had action figures and the like made for the children Miley (or Hannah) was targeting.
Creation – how does your artist create their music, are they a musician, a songwriter, a composer,
"Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her father is country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. She held minor roles in the television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood. In 2006, Cyrus rose to prominence as a teen idol after being cast in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana, in which she portrayed the starring character Miley Stewart. After signing a recording contract with Hollywood Records in 2007, Cyrus released her debut studio album Meet Miley Cyrus. It was certified quadruple-platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for exceeding four million shipments, and produced the hit single "See You Again"."
Performance – does your artist play ‘live’? Is there a ‘show’ to accompany? Is there a ‘style’ to their videos? What if any interaction is there with their audience?
Miley's recent 'change' in style and character is the 'good girl gone bad' type of image. The following clip shows a raunchy performance with what some would call 'risky' costuming. Also within her Wrecking Ball video she is seen to be naked, this is both linking to the male gaze and to the idea that she is breaking the mould and the stereotype 'good girl' label she's lived under since her Disney career.
Influence – Has your artist influenced the wider world of music (are other artists keen to collaborate, have mainstream artists appropriated their sound)?
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