Double Standards: Don’t Look at Me Don’t look at me is the first line of Christina Aguilera’s song "Beautiful." This instant whisper from the voice of Aguilera creates an ashamed vibe for the song. It is spoken quietly and without any musical instrumentation. As the music softly and brilliantly builds up to the first verse listener’s already have a misinterpretation of the lyrics. The audience presumes that the song will be about depression or shame and disgrace because one would associate not wanting
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Mr. Pescatore Christina Aguilera Christina Marie Aguilera was born on Decemebr 18th‚ 1980 in Staten Island‚ New York. Her father‚ Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera‚ was Ecuadorian. Her mother‚ Shelly Loraine Filder‚ was Irish American. Her father was a sargeant in the U.S Army which required her family to move around a lot. Her childhood was also filled with a lot of physical and emotional abuse from her father. Christina started singing and performing to deal with things
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portrayed. Some music video’s use socio-cultural codes to construct the visual narrative and structure of their work. For example the music video of Christina Aguilera’s song ‘Beautiful’‚ ‘packed with a message of holding one’s self up against criticism from the outside.’¹‚ shows the insecurities people have with what society portrays to be beautiful. Such as showing characters throughout the video struggling with body image‚ sexual preference and bullying. The characters develop throughout the video
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Song and Selection Analysis: The Songbirds of Pain by Garry Kilworth and Reflection by Christina Aguilera shares the same theme of “finding one’s self (identity)”‚ the subject of both the selection and the song has been expected to act in ways which are opposite or afar from their true personalities. The Songbirds of Pain is about a woman who has her identity created for her‚ while Reflection is about a girl who was hiding who she was in order to reach the expectations of the people surrounding
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"Thin is Beautiful" How many times have you looked in a magazine and envied the models pictured? Have you ever watched a TV show or a movie and wished you looked like one of the stars? Many teenage girls are often targeted by magazines‚ movies‚ and TV and are made to believe that "thin is beautiful". The media has negatively affected teenage girls’ self-image. From sit-coms to magazines‚ thin‚ beautiful girls can be spotted‚ and this can cause a girl to feel that she is not thin enough to be
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The most beautiful place (Alex) The most beautiful place for me is Spain. When I was eleven years old‚ my mother and I first went abroad. Mom and I both love to travel. Before that we visited several neighboring countries that were part of the USSR‚ because we do not need a visa to travel there. Those countries are almost the same as my Kazakhstan‚ everywhere people understand the Russian language‚ architecture and lifestyle in them the same. But I knew that in Spain‚ everything will
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For my topic my contemporary rhetoric research paper on the song “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera. I chose to write about this song because this is a classic pop song that everyone knows that we can still relate to‚ or for others around us. I’ve noticed that everyone is so quick to jump in love and no one love their self-first. As I listened to this song‚ I was able to find many examples of pathos. The audience that I would like to connect to is our generation that is suffering from everyday struggles
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change their identity in relation to fame. Latinas‚ being an essential part of the film industry‚ change their identity throughout their career; hence‚ I would like to observe the transformation that occurred in the careers of Jennifer Lopez‚ Christina Aguilera‚ and Jessica Alba since it is evident that Hollywood influenced their identity and how they carried themselves in order to make a presence in Hollywood and become who they are now. Hollywood is a racial space and it affects the creation of
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the singers look‚ what they wear‚ all about their appearance and even their performance on stage cannot influence the coaches. On this show‚ it takes more than a beautiful face. The crux factor is vocal. Secondly‚ the 4 coaches of the voice is definitely 4 superstars. They are Blake Shelton‚ Adam Levine‚ Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera. It is absolutely no dout that they are 4 of the most influential and biggest names in all of music. In this show‚ they are not judges‚ but coaches and on a mission
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Sigismondi is an Italian photographer & director‚ who has played a major role in many productions of photographs such as “Self Portrait with Cat”‚ and the directing of music videos working with major artists such as Katy Perry‚ Marilyn Manson‚ Christina Aguilera‚ David Bowie and Muse‚ but is best known for the writing and directing of a 2010 release movie known as the runaways which brought a box office income of $4‚678‚222. Floria went to the Ontario Collage of Art in 1987‚ where she studied painting
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