Ever since the extremist musician Marilyn Manson showed his face for the first, he have been criticized for being a bad influence on listeners of his music. Blame it on the boogie! Can music have influence on it's listeners? Can music change you? When two boys decide to shoot their classmates from Columbine, is it inspiration that drives them? Some say that, heavy and extreme rock is to blame, that the music almost brainwashed and completely changed the two boys way of thinking and acting. But does music have the ability to do this? Is it possible for a musician to create music, that can change people in such a drastic way? And if possible, would the musician be interested in doing so? In a world where everybody wants to achieve fame and fortune, isn't the extreme simply a necessity? Do you get peoples attention, by looking and talking just like everybody else? After the shootings on Columbine, people started wondering what it was that drove the two boys to commit the horrible actions. In the debate Marilyn Manson was mentioned. It was said that the two boys both spent a lot of their time idolizing Marilyn, and so people accused the shootings to be only another form of idolization that went too far. It is no secret that music can have effect on the listener, music might make you happy, music might make you sad. But can the music change you? Marilyn Manson is not the only musician to be blamed for tragedies, rap- singer Eminem was blamed for the suicide of a fan. “When I was a kid, music was my escape. When you put on a record it will not yell at you for dressing the way you do, it will make you feel better about it” Marilyn Manson said this in an interview for the movie Bowling for Columbine. He also said “I understand why people blame me, it's always easy to put my face on TV and compare me to something horrible” In the interview Marilyn Mansons seemed no longer upset that he was given the blame, he had accepted it. Marilyn Manson told that his intentions with his music, was exactly the opposite of what he was thought to do. With the music Manson tries to give less lucky kids someone to relate to, someone who might understand them, and their problems. “I am only an entertainer, an entertainer with a tough crowd” Marilyn Manson lives under constant criticism from all angles, but yet he continues his career, as a musician, as an entertainer and as an idol.
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Ever since the extremist musician Marilyn Manson showed his face for the first, he have been criticized for being a bad influence on listeners of his music.
Blame it on the boogie!Can music have influence on it's listeners? Can music change you? When two boys decide to shoot their classmates from Columbine, is it inspiration that drives them?
Some say that, heavy and extreme rock is to blame, that the music almost brainwashed and completely changed the two boys way of thinking and acting. But does music have the ability to do this? Is it possible for a musician to create music, that can change people in such a drastic way? And if possible, would the musician be interested in doing so? In a world where everybody wants to achieve fame and fortune, isn't the extreme simply a necessity? Do you get peoples attention, by looking and talking just like everybody else?
After the shootings on Columbine, people started wondering what it was that drove the two boys to commit the horrible actions. In the debate Marilyn Manson was mentioned. It was said that the two boys both spent a lot of their time
idolizing Marilyn, and so people accused the shootings to be only another form of idolization that went too far. It is no secret that music can have effect on the listener, music might make you happy, music might make you sad. But can the music change you? Marilyn Manson is not the only musician to be blamed for tragedies, rap-singer Eminem was blamed for the suicide of a fan.
“When I was a kid, music was my escape. When you put on a record it will not yell at you for dressing the way you do, it will make you feel better about it” Marilyn Manson said this in an interview for the movie Bowling for Columbine. He also said “I understand why people blame me, it's always easy to put my face on TV and compare me to something horrible” In the interview Marilyn Mansons seemed no longer upset that he was given the blame, he had accepted it. Marilyn Manson told that his intentions with his music, was exactly the opposite of what he was thought to do. With the music Manson tries to give less lucky kids someone to relate to, someone who might understand them, and their problems. “I am only an entertainer, an entertainer with a tough crowd”
Marilyn Manson lives under constant criticism from all angles, but yet he continues his career, as a musician, as an entertainer and as an idol.
The picture shows Britney shaving her head completely bald. In the pic-‐ture she looks happy, but a lot of per-‐sonal struggles, is going through her life.
Britney Spears, the girl we know as a beautiful pop star, got caught shav-ing her hair completely bald. Brit-ney has had a tough childhood with pressure and many problems. In 2006 paparazzi’s caught Britney Spears driving with her young son, Sean. The problem was that Britney was driving with him on her lab, in-‐stead of a child seat. Britney claimed that the situation happened because of a frightening encounter with a papa-‐razzi. 3 months later Britney Spears posed nude in front of the magazine Harper’s Bazaar. The picture of Brit-‐ney, nude, created a lot of problems for Britney. In November 2006, Brit-‐ney signed the divorce papers with Kevin Federlein, after a bit over 2 years of marriage. Spears and Feder-‐lein had two kids together. The press made a lot of problems, and created drama for all the states! Later in the month, Britney Spears, went partying without underwear. A paparazzi took a photo of Britney, without her panties on, and the picture went all over the
world. The big thing that happened to Britney was when she cut her hair, just in front of a photographer.
Britney was caught with a shaver, in her hand, going through her hair. The reason for Britney to cut her hair was
that her ant died of cancer. But that wasn’t the only excuse Britney used. Britney also said that she had lice, and she had to cut all her hair off. The per-‐sonal struggles that Britney has been through, could be the reason that Spears gone so far. Maybe a shout for help. That help came later on, ap-‐proximately 4 days after, when she got the offer to start on a rehabilitation center. People thought that it was over, when she came out, but in 2008 Federlein was given sole psychical and legal custody of the children. Since all of this, Britney came back on the road and started to perform again. Her sixth album “Circus” came out in December 2008, and became no. 1 al-‐bum in Canada, Czech Republic and the United States.
Written by: Jonas Reil, Oliver Winfield & Anton Valentiner
Is Britney going nuts?
Today, it´s exactly 5 years ago that we
were introduced to the phenomenon
YouTube. Since then it has been elected to
the fastest growing website in Internet
history. In May 2008 over 60 mio. people
had visited YouTube a total of 279 mio.
times and was now one of the biggest and
most visited video-sharing websites.
Once upon a time. Every fairy tale starts with that sentence. The
music world is one big fairy tale, you just need
some imagination and everything can be possible.
Once there was a lot that appreciated the music
values. Some might assemble on plates, all their
lives and make it to a hobby. Because each record
was valuable. If you heard a good song on the
radio you recorded it on a tape, or went out and
bought it on CD, for a fortune. You listened to the
same CD every day, until the day that it couldn´t
play back anymore. When you got old you could
watch you record collection through and each
record or tape will up bring a memory.
But that was once upon a time and that
time is over
5 years ago 3 young students Chad Hurley, Steve Chen,
and Jawed Karim studied computer science together at the
University of Illinois. They got a bright idea, and brought
it to life. Like many technology startups, YouTube was
started as an angel-funded enterprise from a makeshift
office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm
Sequoia Capital, CFO and Artis Capital Management put
a lot money in to this new project. And that gave the
company a very good foundation. On short time the
video-sharing website was one of the most famous
websites on the internet, and they started a new time, in
the music history and industry. Online video definitely
existed before YouTube came into vogue. However,
uploading videos, sharing and watching them was quite
cumbersome. But with YouTube!
Every coin has two sides. People started to listen to music online, and the CD, vinyl
record, DVD and VHS end up in the dustbin. In 2006
YouTube was being purchased by Google, and change to
a powerful example of the development of the network,
called Web 2.0. Here it´s the users themselves, who create
the content. But it also has a downside. YouTube has had
several problems with copyright conflicts, because in
addition to users' own-produced video also presented
popular music and film clips on the Internet site. That cost
the Media companies their customers and in that way also
money. During the last 5 years a lot of Media companies
went broke.
The future. What is going to happened in the future. Mark Cuban, the
outspoken dot-com billionaire says, that copyright issues
will eventually ruin YouTube just as they did with
Napster. So what are we going to do. You know how it is
with technology – once something becomes so ubiquitous
and so universally used, it is simply impossible to
imagine life without it. For instance, just how did we
organize our lives without mobile telephones and emails?
Did we really rely on landlines without answer phones
and writing letters to one another? It wasn't that long ago,
and yet somehow we struggle to believe that we did!
