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Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyoncé (Official Music Video) ft. Beyoncé

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Named as one of the best music videos of all time by Rolling Stone.

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Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Official Music Video)

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Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Official Music Video)

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Lady Gaga is known for her visuals just as much as her music and voice, I will do research into this

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Visuals within music often include dance, music videos, album art, logos and costume.

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Released 10 years ago, "Born This Way" made unity sound defiant.

Updated at 5:45 p.m. on February 11, 2021.
The social-media celebrity JoJo Siwa has built an empire by dressing in sparkly rainbow outfits while chattering about individuality and self-acceptance. But when she wanted the world to know that she was queer, she let Lady Gaga do the talking. In a TikTok last month, the 17-year-old Siwa filmed herself grinning and lip-synching to Gaga's 2011 hit "Born This Way." In the comments section, fans immediately began congratulating Siwa for coming out. "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track, baby," Gaga sings-and Siwa, her later posts confirmed, was announcing herself as being somewhere on that list outside of "straight."

How many other pop songs could do a job like this? How many songs let listeners make a statement, understandable to just about everyone, by simply singing along? A fritzing and fidgeting masterpiece of disco didacticism, "Born This Way" seems to have fulfilled the outrageous ambitions Gaga signaled when she released it 10 years ago this month. She promoted the debut single off her second album by wearing prosthetic cheekbones and hatching from an egg at the Grammys. A seven-minute music video packed with ab-flashing extraterrestrial dancers began with the recitation of " The Manifesto of Mother Monster," which touts "the beginning of the new race ... a race which bears no prejudice." The song itself salutes not just the LGBTQ community, but also people of various skin colors, nationalities, and abilities, plus "subway kid[s]" and "the insecure."
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"Born This Way" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011, stayed in that spot for six weeks, and then never really left the cultural consciousness. It became the title of Gaga's best-selling second album and the name of her mental-health nonprofit, which is still active today. It rang out at unlikely venues: Alice Cooper shows, country-music performances, and the 2017 Super Bowl, with Mike Pence in attendance. Today, the single still loops in grocery stores and at socially distanced drag shows. "I want to be remembered for the message behind 'Born This Way,'" Gaga said in a 2018 Vogue interview when asked about her desired legacy. "I would like to be remembered for believing that people are equal." Incidents such as Siwa's coming out-not to mention Gaga's invitation to sing at Joe Biden's inclusion-themed inauguration-would seem to suggest that legacy is secure.

Yet at the time of the song's release, the staying power of "Born This Way" wouldn't have been taken for granted: Controversy and dismissal swarmed from the start. Gaga's lyrics about gay acceptance of course invited homophobic outrage, but outside of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church and censors in Malaysia, the loudest knocks on the song didn't come from conservatives. Rather, the left-leaning pop culture that Gaga had thrived in began to roil. Madonna mocked "Born This Way" for sounding like her song "Express Yourself," which in turn invited conversation about how many other classic songs "Born This Way" borrowed from. Asian American and Latino commenters understandably took issue with Gaga's lyrical use of the words Orient and chola. Many queer pundits generally found the song too presumptuous, too pandering, and too simplistic. "The Lady Gaga Backlash Begins," said the headline to a 2011 Guardian piece that noted "the heavy-handed way that the song assumed stewardship of an entire portion of humanity." It was one of many similarly titled articles reporting grumbles from onetime Gaga devotees.

The song survived such criticism, but the skepticism didn't quite end. Rather, the skirmishes around "Born This Way" set the table for a decade of arguing about representation, empowerment, and identity across American culture. After "Born This Way," queerness became more visible than ever, but its mass ambassadors-whether RuPaul's Drag Race, Pete Buttigieg's presidential run, or Taylor Swift's Pride anthem -faced potent criticism about the limits of visibility as a goal in itself.

With all the subtlety of a confetti cannon, Gaga had attacked the notion that pushing a social agenda prevents having a mass audience. But the coalition she sang about proved to be fragile-if it ever really existed at all.

When the 20-year-old NYU dropout Stefani Germanotta took on the name Lady Gaga around 2007, some of the early, pivotal gigs she booked were at gay clubs. This move was, among other things, smart. As a student of pop culture-she had taken a highlighter to books of Andy Warhol's writings-Gaga knew that, historically, the most devoted audience for female-led party pop has been found on queer dance floors. The reasons for that are numerous. Divas such as Cher, Donna Summer, and Madonna show how you don't need to play by traditional gender roles to attain dominance in a male-dominated world. They sing songs of independence, survival, and forbidden love. Their ecstatic melodies and rhythms liven up spaces where someone might go to pursue stigmatized desires. By showing up at Fire Island with a light-up prop she called her "disco stick" and singing about "Boys, Boys, Boys," Gaga positioned herself in this tradition from the start.

Unlike many of her predecessors, though, Gaga spoke to the LGBTQ community as one of its members. She told interviewers that her 2008 hit "Poker Face" was about masking her own same-sex desire, and in a 2009 Rolling Stone cover story she identified as bisexual. In clear ways, she set out to destabilize gender too. While other divas shellacked themselves into paragons of feminine glamour, Gaga's grotesque fashions seemed to satirize the idea of the socialite, the model, and the doll. A rumor took hold online alleging that Gaga was actually a man in drag, or maybe a woman with a penis. Rather than seem offended by the plainly transphobic and obnoxious speculation, Gaga made sport of it. "I do have a really big donkey dick," she told an interviewer when asked about the matter. Her bracing 2010 speech calling for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell demonstrated Gaga pairing her aesthetics with activism.

Gaga's 2009 EP The Fame Monster added leather-goth angst to her sparkly brew, resulting in smashes such as "Bad Romance" and "Alejandro." But she still needed to tackle the much-feared test of longevity facing new stars: the sophomore full-length album. For this, she would go lighter, brighter, and make all her subtext into text. To record the song "Born This Way," Gaga turned to producers-Fernando Garibay, Jeppe Laursen, DJ White Shadow-who were conversant in both disco history and the new EDM sound that was trending at the time. Lyrically, she sought to make as clear a statement as possible. "I want to write my this-is-who-the-fuck-I-am anthem, but I don't want it to be hidden in poetic wizardry and metaphors," she told Billboard. "I want it to be an attack, an assault on the issue, because I think, especially in today's music, everything gets kind of washy sometimes and the message gets hidden in the lyrical play."

Indeed, outside of Chistina Aguilera's "Beautiful," scattered Black Eyed Peas tracks, and Kanye West's provocations, the 21st century's first decade was not a banner time for social conscientiousness in pop music. But as the always online, famously idealistic Millennial generation came of age, the tides began to change. Barack Obama's first years in office saw Beyoncé, Kesha, Katy Perry, and other peers of Gaga's make feminist messages a de rigueur subject on Top 40 radio. The emergence of Kendrick Lamar-who spoke to the grievances underlying the nascent Black Lives Matter movement-marked a renewed period of forthright political engagement in commercial hip-hop. MTV created a new award, Best Video With a Message, in 2011, and "Born This Way" won it.

Really, though, Gaga's song reached back in time as much as it looked forward. The track drew from the 1970s Motown song "I Was Born This Way," which was popularized by the openly gay singer Carl Bean. Its first lines go: "I'm walking through life in nature's disguise / You laugh at me and you criticize 'cause I'm happy, carefree and gay / Yes, I'm gay." Talk about a this-is-who-the-fuck-I-am anthem, right? In a 2016 Vice interview, Bean explained how his openness was-maybe counterintuitively, given how much gay rights have progressed since then-of its era:

At the time, what the disc jockeys coined as "message music" was pretty big, and that's what I wanted to do. Message music came out in the late '60s, and it caught on with the young folk at the time. We were in the middle of the civil-rights movement, women were staging sit-ins, and there was a huge dislike for the war in Vietnam. You started to hear, little by little, messages that spoke to what people were dealing with everyday-what people were feeling ... Whether you're in the club or wherever, you were hearing about the times.

Message music never fully died out; Gaga was also inspired by the early-'90s period of TLC and En Vogue singing of empowerment and safe sex. What's notable is how these obvious predecessors for "Born This Way" were created by Black people speaking clearly from their own individual experiences.

Gaga's approach was not so autobiographical. Though she often said that her self-love lyrics were a response to her being bullied in high school, she generally worked to keep her personal identity obscured in the public eye. So while her single opens with a first-person vignette-"My mama told me when I was young / We are all born superstars"-it soon spirals out to the über-generic. A litany of identity groups-not only the L's, G's, B's, and T's, but also the "black, white, beige," the "outcast, bullied, or teased," the "broke or evergreen"-all get the same advice: "Rejoice and love yourself today." Gaga, whipping between R&B-inflected exuberance and Beat-poet deadpan, embraces the comedy inherent in the song's encyclopedic nature. One passage is in Italian; another directs, "Don't be a drag, just be a queen."

When the album Born This Way arrived in May 2011, it continued her work of asserting common cause between every conceivable type of marginalized person. With shivers of Latin guitar, "Americano" relays the story of a bilingual lesbian marriage threatened by American immigration policy. The rave sirens of "Scheiße" rally "blond high-heel feminists" to defy the male gaze. "Hair," a glorious hybrid of Abba and Bruce Springsteen, rages against coiffure-related persecution. In linking the tackiest genres of all time-spandex metal, German techno, gospel pop-for one dizzying, anthemic journey, Born This Way's sound reflects the wacky sprawl of its subject matter. On highlights such as " Judas," the seams between genres aren't hidden, but rather celebrated: You get a tingle whenever one mode of bombast switches to another. This sense of can-do possibility, fortified by the solidity of Gaga's voice and the hammering of her beats, still gives Born This Way a claim to being the best pop album of the 2010s.

Even so, Gaga's fanatical devotion to her own cause led to overreach. "Dear monsters, let your identity be your religion," she wrote to her fans in a newspaper editorial, and if this was to be the birth of a new faith, it's clear who would be treated as a god, or at least as a prophet. Did Gaga have a right to speak for all of mankind's misfits? Was it not a bit dicey for a white woman to position herself as a messiah who could stitch all of human difference into one class? Her blithe use of terms such as Orient, chola, and transgendered ( rather than transgender) certainly demonstrated the dangers of doing so. When an interviewer asked her about "Born This Way" allegedly ripping off Madonna, Gaga used another slur to describe her critics: retarded. She quickly apologized, but the gaffe still felt telling. Evidence was piling up of how easily a fearless belief in self, especially when held by the powerful and privileged, could bleed into insensitivity.

The past decade has provided plenty more examples of that dynamic. The language of oppression, self-acceptance, and individuality has been misused time and again, whether you look to Rachel Dolezal or wellness bloggers embracing QAnon. Progressive culture's internal tiffs have largely centered on the fear of such hijackings. Intersectionality-a framework showing how different forms of oppression overlap and accumulate-has pushed back against supposedly color-blind liberalism. Heightened scrutiny of cultural appropriation would ding Gaga today for the Mariachi cosplay of "Americano." The emboldened left would question Gaga's portrayal of marginalization as a mindset rather than a material condition.

You can look to other instances of white divas singing would-be savior songs in recent years for signs of how times have changed. Taylor Swift's 2019 queer-pride anthem, "You Need to Calm Down," still feels tinged with awkwardness for the way it equates virulent homophobes with the mere haters of Swift's music. Katy Perry drew more skepticism than applause from queer audiences for employing drag queens in the promotion for her 2017 album, Witness. Madonna's 2019 track " Killers Who Are Partying " presents the Queen of Pop as relevant to the plights of gay people, Africans, Muslims, Israelis, Native Americans, and rape victims. She's lucky the song wasn't catchy enough to spark controversy.
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Message music still abounds, but what's changed in the past 10 years is a swerve back from generalized sloganeering to personal testifying. Lizzo's inspirational performances explicitly channel her experiences as a Black fat woman who plays the flute. Troye Sivan is a gay man singing about gay love. One disciple of Gaga's, the up-and-coming singer Rina Sawayama, makes bombastic pop that's grounded in her experiences as a Japanese immigrant to the United Kingdom. Gaga, too, has stepped back from the gauzy and universal to write more specifically about her own place in society. Her 2016 album, Joanne, centers on family history. Last year's addictively fun Chromatica nods toward Born This Way's themes by portraying a sci-fi dimension of love and harmony-but the album's main lyrical preoccupations are Gaga's own struggles with trauma and pain. (She still identifies as bisexual and has also described herself as an LGBTQ "ally.")*

Yet as Siwa's "Born This Way" video demonstrates, plenty of people still find use in messianic acceptance-pop delivered with preposterous zeal. For another example, you might even look to Gaga's wonderfully hammy rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at Biden's inauguration (best theater-kid moment: Gaga squints and looks around for "the ramparts we watched"). Amid a pageant of ROYGBIV fashions, Gaga helped fete a leader who won the White House with shopworn rainbow-coalition messaging about unity, unity, unity. Ever since the hopey-changey era of Born This Way, right- and left-wing voices alike have become more persuasive at questioning the dogma of togetherness -especially when that dogma is preached by famous people interested in accumulating power. But it would be a dreary day if we couldn't still take some joy from Gaga's central argument that we are all born superstars.
* This article has been updated to clarify that Lady Gaga still identifies as bisexual.

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The Lady Gaga Anthem That Previewed a Decade of Culture Wars

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Released 10 years ago, "Born This Way" made unity sound defiant. Updated at 5:45 p.m. on February 11, 2021. The social-media celebrity JoJo Siwa has built an empire by dressing in sparkly rainbow outfits while chattering about individuality and self-acceptance. But when she wanted the world to know that she was queer, she let Lady Gaga do the talking.

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Why Is Lady Gaga So Famous?

Lady Gaga is one of the most recognizable singers in the American music scene. A few years ago, I tried to understand why so many were fascinated by her and I did not really think that her music was that great. But now, since I have given her music a chance, I think I still prefer to listen to Lady Gaga over Britney Spears or Miley Cyrus.

Lady Gaga is also very important to American popular culture in more ways than just her musical contributions (discussed below). The one thing that can and should be stated is that Lady Gaga is one of the better American musical artists. Her songs are very catchy, creating an up-tempo feel that is sure to please fans with diverse tastes.

If Boa Kwon is South Korea's best musical artist and Noriko Sakai is one of Japan's best, then Lady Gaga should be considered one of the best in the US.

"Just Dance" Is the Song That Got Me Into Lady Gaga & Her Music

Lady Gaga is extremely popular around the world but why are people so fascinated by her? I will admit that the song "Just Dance" is a great pop song and it makes you feel really good. It has a nice rhythm. When I first wrote about Lady Gaga, I did not really care very much about her music. But now since I have expanded my musical tastes and given her music a chance, I seem to enjoy it more. "Just Dance" is the first song that I ever heard from her.

Lady Gaga's Early Life and Career: A Timeline

Her name at birth was Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. She was born on March 28, 1986, in New York City.

Gaga has a mix of many different ancestries. Her father is of Italian descent while her mother is half Italian and half French Canadian along with English, German, and Scottish heritage. This is an example of the diverse nature of ancestries in the United States that makes the country what it is.

Gaga would encounter some adversity early in her life. She was bullied for her appearance when she attended the Covent of the Sacred Heart at 11 years old.

By the time she was 14, Gaga was dancing in bars. She would do this until her music career took off.

At the age of 17, she was able to gain early admission to New York University's famous Tisch School of the Arts! She began to sharpen her songwriting skills and even wrote essays on various subjects. Some of these subjects that she wrote about are art, religion, social issues, and politics.

However, by the time she was 19 years old, she decided to take her life in a different direction. She dropped out of university, moved out of her parents' home, and started a career in music.

A band that she started shortly thereafter began to get attention locally. It was her partnership with talent scout Rob Fusari which resulted in the creation of her stage name.

She would be signed to DEF JAM Records in 2006. She would be dropped from the label in just three months. She would return home being devastated.

Gaga began to experiment with go-go dancing at bars. She would start to dress in a bikini and experiment with drugs.

In 2007, she was signed to Streamline Records. Gaga would sign a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV.

Her career took off, even more, when she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls.

2008-2011: Lady Gaga Becomes a Superstar Singer (a Timeline)

In 2008, Gaga would release her debut album called The Fame. She would tour in Europe and in gay clubs in the US to promote the album.

In 2009, when Gaga's first major hit song "Just Dance" was released, her career got into superstar status. This first album also has the song called "Poker Face."

While she was on tour, Gaga wrote the EP called The Darker Side. This EP examines the darker side to her fame and contains the songs "Bad Romance," "Telephone," and "Alejandro."

Gaga would go on her second tour as a solo artist called The Monster Ball. The tour was one of the longest in Gaga's career and it would last 1.5 years. The tour grossed $227.4 million dollars. It became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time and it was the highest-grossing concert tour for a debut artist like Lady Gaga.

There were concerts performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City and they were filmed for a TV special on HBO. The special was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won one of them.

In 2011, Lady Gaga released her second album called Born this Way. The lyrical themes for the album covered politics, sexuality, and religion.

The album went on to sell a staggering 1.108 million copies in the US in its first week of release. The album also went on top of the Billboard 200 and it topped the music charts in 20 other countries. Born this Way was a superb success, selling over 8 million copies around the world. Gaga would receive her 3rd straight Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year.

In March 2012, Lady Gaga would be ranked 4th on Billboard's list of the top moneymakers in 2011, grossing a total of $25,353,039. This number included the sales from her Monster Ball Tour and her CD sales from Born This Way.

"Just Dance" the Song That Got Lady Gaga Famous

Lady Gaga In 2016

Lady Gaga: 2011-2016 and Her Support of Hillary Clinton

Lady Gaga would go on tour to promote the album Born This Way in Korea. The tour would last two years and Gaga would travel to every place on the globe. Gaga had been experiencing a tear in her right hip which she had been nursing for several weeks in the hopes that she could continue the tour. However, she would eventually have to go to the hospital because she was in severe pain. The tour would be canceled. In spite of the injury, Gaga would finish 6 th among touring artists in 2012, grossing $125 million. There was a total of 1.1 million people that attended her concerts that year. Gaga would release her third album called ARTPOP in 2013. She also starred in Machete Kills, the sequel to the 2010 film called Machete. She also appeared in the movie called Sin City: A Dame to Kill For in 2014. Gaga was a big supporter of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US Presidential campaign. And in doing so, she shows that she supported the person who would have been best for the United States. For young people out there looking for a role model, maybe you should consider Lady Gaga. In 2016, she released her new album, Joanne. If there is one eccentric quality about Lady Gaga, her style of dress is sometimes unusual and weird.

Lady Gaga and American Pop Culture

Lady Gaga When She Was Becoming a Major Musical Star

Other Reasons to Support Lady Gaga

There are singers that are more beautiful than her but Gaga's talent is one reason I support her. And Lady Gaga is correct that love trumps hate. We congratulate Lady Gaga for her activism, her encouragement that people should love each other and for her supporting the most qualified candidate in Hillary Clinton. If I need to feel better, I know that I can always listen to Lady Gaga's music for a dose of good feelings. I hope that Lady Gaga can inspire people across the United States and the world to fight for what is right. Pop culture is more than just music. Lady Gaga has been involved with music and movies. And if the future is any indication, she should be a voice for those that are looking for social justice. As Hillary Clinton said after her election loss, "never stop fighting for what is right." I think Lady Gaga will be a major pop culture icon in the next several years.

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Interesting Facts About Lady Gaga

She is known for wearing elaborate sunglasses and shoes with high heels.

Was a classmate with Paris Hilton.

Her influences include Madonna, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, and Freddie Mercury.

Her stage name of Lady Gaga is in reference to the song "Radio Ga-Ga" by Queen.

Gaga learned how to play the piano when she was four years old. She wrote her first piano ballad when she was 13 years old. She then started to perform in public when she was 14.

Has a younger sister named Natali Germanotta who once dressed as her for Halloween!

Although Gaga is naturally a brunette, she bleached her hair blonde in an attempt to make herself look different. She was being mistaken by interviewers for Amy Winehouse when she was trying to make it big.

She wrote the song Telephone as part of a collaboration with singer Beyonce Knowles. The song would be on the album called "The Fame Monster."

Gaga is a strong supporter of rights for gay and lesbian couples.

She was ranked #99 on FHM's 2011 list of the 100 sexiest women.

Her sister Natalie once dressed up as her for Halloween!

She launched the foundation called "Born this Way." It is a non-profit organization that helps people worldwide develop a new standard of care towards each other.

She is a good friend of Deepak Chopra. She has stated that he gives her great spiritual advice.

She is a Democrat. (And in this day and age, that's actually a great idea!)

She is engaged to Taylor Kinney.

"Bad Romance"
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Ara Vahanian (author) from LOS ANGELES on October 30, 2019:

Interesting observation. I'm going to have to read about this some more. I was growing up when Madonna made it really big as a pop music star.

PopSugar on October 29, 2019:

Most importantly she should be remembered in American Pop Culture as the singer who copied Madonna's entire style, sound, campaign, and looked...repackaged them and sold them to millennials who had no idea who Madonna was.

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Why Is Lady Gaga Important to American Popular Culture?

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Shaping the ‘Gaga-esque’: The revolutionary impact of Lady Gaga

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After receiving feedback from my formative I am going to focus my question around pop culture, in particular Lady Gaga who I believe is a significant pop cultural figure.

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Billie Holidays 'Strange Fruit', described as "a declaration of war... the beginning of the civil rights movement". It was the first time a black artist had sung such controversial lyrics.

More recently Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way', an LGBTQ anthem released in 2011 when gay marriage wasn't legal across all states in the US.

Lil Nas X 2021 single 'MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)', was a resistance against stereotypes and societies idea that men have to act a certain way. The music video involved him giving the devil a lap dance, and flying down to hell on a stripper pole.

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I think this quote describes that each individuals experience with music depends on where they are from, their life experiences and upbringing. Certain songs may connect to one person but not the next, musical experience is all about context.

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"... as a discursive practice, music is 'situated in particular societal relationships and locations that are a product of complex intersections of culture, class, gender etc., in in lived experience"
(Balliger, 1995, p. 13)

What does this quotation say about how we encounter and engage with music?

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An example of these 'tribes', or subcultures, within the music world is fandoms. Most mainstream artists have named fanbases, maybe the most famous examples of the 21st century being 'Beliebers' (Justin Bieber), 'Directioners' (One Direction), 'Little Monsters' (Lady Gaga), and now 'the A.R.M.Y.' for BTS.

Usually consisting of young adults and teens, these fanbases can provide an escape whether that be online on social media or in real life.

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Michel Maffesoli, The Time Of the Tribes (1996)

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Michel Maffesoli, The Time Of the Tribes (1996)

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Maffesoli describes subcultures as 'emotional communities'.

He believes we live in a society which is mass produced and alienating, and to combat this we seek pleasure and enjoyment from our social interactions and connections with certain people. He uses the term 'tribes' to describe sports fans, chess players, Star Wars fans etc.

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Subcultures are often a resistance to the mainstream, and oppose the dominant culture in society.

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Authenticity and taste overlap, in musical terms some may argue that they are both a synonym of each other. However this is not always the case, with musical artists often portraying a false sense of authenticity in order to be able to come off as higher quality or more believable and in turn driving up song and record sales.

A prime example of this is Ed Sheeran, who may have started out as authentic, but has quickly become a major label machine making music designed for mass consumption. Despite this he still continues to use the same authentic aesthetic he always has, and despite the transparency it still works in generating popularity for him.

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Authenticity in its most general sense is a concept which conveys assumptions about objects, people and places.

If something is authentic it is assumed that it is believable and relatable, that is genuine and thus acceptable.

(Mayhew, E. Women in Popular Music and the Construction of "Authenticity“ in Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 4.1 (June 1999)

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Taste in music can reveal a lot about a person, with Bordieu believing it can define ones class. For example, those who enjoy classical music would be of a higher class than someone who enjoys mainstream chart music.

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"Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier" (Bordieu, 1984, p6)

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Fashion, musical taste, and ideologies all make these groups subcultural.

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For example:
Punks
Goths
Hippies
Hipsters

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Subculture - a cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture.