@wherearetheavacados

One of the most relevant alternative pop stars in todays age  has just hit 10 million followers on Instagram today, 12/17/2018. This pop star is Billie Eilish, and her insta handle is @wherearetheavacados . Billie is one of the most successful 16 year olds (will be turning 17 tomorrow) in the music industry. She has grown lately within the past year and its all due to media.

Now don't get me wrong,she has a beautiful voice that I am in love with, but with all of her media popularity has definitely helped her. She recently did a one year apart interview with vanity fair and there are major differences between her past and present self. The Fist one which was recorded October 18,2017 she mentions, "I have 257,000." When asked about her current followers. Then to the one in 2018 she has 6.3 million...a big change in just a year. From these we obviously know she's growing in popularity at such a fast rate, I mean she gained roughly 4 million followers within 2 months!

But what is amazing about her as an artist is her creativity and what she sings about. She writes then sings what she feels and has such a deep connection in what she saying, and she's so young. Her artistic ability too is something so unreal. She recently released a music video for one of her newer songs, When The Parties Over and it had even brought some fans to tears.

With all of her success both on and off media she has made many appearances in top name videos such as the one mentioned before, vanity fair. Recently this star also got a big break by being chosen to write a song for one of apples winter commercials. All of these extra things have helped this amazing teen get to where she is now. Media is definitely a present force in her life and has increased her fan base exponentially.

The Big Split

Recently it was announced the rapper Cardi B and Offset from the Migos are getting a divorce. It was announced over Instagram by Cardi B. Starting off with her saying, "I've been trying to work things out with my baby father." Then goes on about how they just haven been getting along but are good as friends and she'll always have love for him. Its been four days since the announcement and its still one of the top news stories on twitter. There are headlines stating, "I miss Cardi" or," Cardis rap about divorce." Its all about the drama and what's going on between them. Which I can imagine being tough given their whole personal life is out there and that this is a very personal situation.

Being in this day and age with social media all around us giving us all our news must be hard for these celebrities. People don't seem to care about their privacy but rather try and go deeper into their life and these people doing this are complete strangers.The medias current play in this situation is to give everyone the news on this split. For news sources like TMZ, people, cosmopolitan, and etc. are posting all about it.

This story is a major headline on sources like the ones listed. Some sources are even trying to say this is just a publicity stunt just to promote themselves. Which I find absurd considering this is ending a one year marriage. Not to mention they have a child together and this will be affecting her life as she grows up. With all of this going on in each rappers life I feel we should just let them be and settle this by themselves. But with media present we all know that's not a possible outcome.

Gorilla Advertising

In todays media we constantly get a whiff of ads, whether its buy this product or listen to this song its always there. One of the most popular forms I've seen of putting it out there is through Gorilla advertising. This way ads are just shoved in your face promoting whatever it is they're selling. I see this almost everywhere from social media to YouTube and even listening to music.
In past years there was rarely that much ads on social platforms until just recently. Around two years ago is when they started to incorporate their stuff into platforms like snapchat and Instagram. And the reason its gorilla advertising is because it just pops up. You could be tapping through snapchat stories and seeing what your friends are up to until your faced with multiple game ads saying "50% of people cant get past level 1." The same thing happens on Instagram you can be scrolling through your feed and an ad disguised as a post will be there. The other platform of media ads are found on is Spotify. Its one of the most popular music apps and the advisors know that. That's why they now bombard you with their product promotion in between songs. Another more original form of gorilla advertising would be times square in New York. The ads here are all over. Each and every one pushing their product and its everywhere you look. From bill boards to light up ads and ones displayed on buildings.

For most of my life I always remembered ads being there, that's just how it works. One company makes a profit off another one trying to make a profit. But now each company is being more innovative of how they put their ads out there. There always will be the gorilla ad in places like times square but now its being incorporated into more social media. And this technique really seems to be apparent in todays media.

Thank U, Next

The widely known 25 year old Ariana Grande came out with her new music video last Friday, and it kind of broke the internet...with a whopping 112 million views (in only 4 days). This song of hers had already had much hype about it before fans even knew a video would be in place for this. In this song she mentions all of her exes then goes on to say how she does not need anyone but herself. The video was a huge hit because along with the stars fame she incorporated 4 of the most iconic movies (my own opinion along with most of her fans). She had played off Mean Girls, Bring it On, Legally Blonde, and 13 Going on 30. Not only that but she too had multiple star cameos one of the most famous being Kris Jenner.

 The role media had on this video definitely played a huge part. We look to the internet and see whats cool or not and what she had used all fit what viewers love. The video was especially highly anticipated after the star had released the first 30 to 45 seconds of it which was well known stars/you-tubers saying popular false rumors that had been circulating around the media for awhile. This was definitely what had built up some of the videos fame already. Other than that I really like what Ariana had put out there. It was a perfect anthem of self love which many people seem to struggle with. People tend to think they need someone or something to make them feel accepted but in reality all we need it to accept ourselves. Which is exactly what Ariana preaches about, one of her lines being, "She taught me love she taught me patients how she handles the pain that sh*ts amazing,"and she is referring to herself. What she sings about sends all the right messages to girls young and old and I hope this song has a high impact on every girl. 

As mentioned before the star had displayed the most 4 iconic movies within her video, which I would  say contributed to the singers videos success. The movie that had played one of the more popular and better known ones was Mean Girls. This was a movie made in 2004 and still remains relevancy today. Which I think really says something considering it is 14 years old. The reason to this I would say is because it may have been made a long time ago but the topics it discusses still remain relevant. Sure in the movie it was more of an extreme case but that it what made it so good. But it has stayed a popular media item because of it, just like these other movies. They were all so true and taught us some valuable lessons. Overall this video was a huge success and multiple forms of media had supported it to 'break the internet'.

A Shame or Necessity

This past weekend on November 25th an awful occurrence happened leaving families in literal tears. There was tear gas fired at families trying to cross the US-Mexico boarder. But each article I had read definitely shared different viewings and contradicted one another through their use of language. For starters star telegram saw it as a necessary action that needed to be taken that we can see from just the title being, "It was appropriate for Border Patrol to use tear gas on migrants". Where as for harpers bazar news who believed these actions should not have been committed and there are better ways to handle this. This article was called, "If You're Defending Tear Gassing Children, You're a Horrible Person". Just from the titles of these two we can see that each stand for a different thing and according to George Orwell  this would appear to him as just another decline of language.This story being told was on the same topic but reported on with different words.

In https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a25326083/response-tear-gassing-children-caravan-migrants-mexico-border/ it shares the story of how the tear gas was used on "tough people." But the author then shared how,"women in Frozen T-shirts and children in diapers," sure don't live up to this reference. In Wrights article she continues onto how tear gas is such a dangerous weapon and not a harmless as trump tried to play it to be. Wright then mentions the lives of these people and how tye are just trying to create a better life for themselves. Like about Amelia Frank-Vitale and how she lives a rough life in Honduras where people are constantly being murdered and a young boy has already reported to seing 9 himself. In this whole article there was much use of pathos which had tried to change the readers mind and to feel sympathy to those who were effected.

But then in the article https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article222462585.html we see how the author thinks this act was harsh but definitely necessary. They go on to write about the previous warnings trump had sent and how this was mainly their own faults. In this article it also discusses that not all of these people were seeking asylum for themselves and family where all others are people with criminal pasts or a warrant placed out for them. So this author tries to persuade us into thinking it was the migrants fault for constantly pressuring to boarder.

My Relationship With Media

11/24/2018

Media. For as long as I can remember its always been apart of my life, and was always there for me. Always there so send out a text or post about my breakfast or a quick snap chat. But that's not necessarily a good thing. Like any other human being I too like to be connected to others or in the know of whats going on. And through media is a great way to get that but along with media comes addiction. I am not trying to say that media is all bad, I'd definitely say that some parts of media are actually pretty great. But it can easily become bad depending on your use of it.

I would say that in particular my relationship with media it is at a stand still, sure I do like it, but I'm not sure if I love it yet. I like it because it gives me what I want, meaning I can always be ale to contact a friend with it or look up a random fact or binge watch my favorite netflix show. It is also very convenient always being there, and now there's even homework online. Saving students form getting extra papers they don't need or will end up at the bottom of their locker for the rest of the school year. But I'm not sure if I love it yet because of its affects on me. With it I am absorbed in it, to me in that time there seems to be nobody else in that space except for whats on my screen. Which is a nice escape until I have no motivation to do other things that are important. I take too much time away from things that should be getting done just to like a photo. What I have done before is, I would take a 20 minute study break to play with it until that quick 20 minutes shortly becomes an hour or even two. The worst part about it is the smart creators who keep coming up with ideas to attach us even more to the media. Such as streaks for snap chat, requiring us to go on everyday and snap our friends or lose the streak. Which is such a small thing that matters so much. But for me I have cut that part out of my media use, but still find myself on other sights like Instagram or twitter.

Now I see that media has absorbed me in a way.Which inst necessarily bad, but I don't think its that good either. Over time I think I would like to break up with it. But with all its popularity I know it will never be fully possible to do. So I think that for now media is my friend, not one that I'd want to be too close to but someone who you should keep at arms length.