Sarah Brightman

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The Provocation Of The Female Image

WARNING

(explicit matiriel will be involved, nothing is meant to be erotic or offending, this is merely a scholarly pursuit.)









My love for sarah brightman is astounding. Shes an older woman and still looks beautiful, she has the voice of a goddess, and she appears on one of my favorite movies Repo the genetic opera.

this biography was taken from her site.


Biography

by Siew May Chin

Everything about Sarah Brightman is multi-dimensional. Her penchant for fusing musical genres. Her multi-faceted voice. Her contrasting personas. Is it any wonder then that the life and career of this multi-platinum artist is equally colorful and intriguing?

Very often, fans of Sarah's latest works are surprised to learn of her illustrious past in Andrew Lloyd Webber productions on Broadway and the West End. Conversely, those who remember her landmark role in Phantom of the Opera find themselves marveling at the exciting direction that her career has taken in the decade since her departure from musical theatre. Hardcore Sarah fans, no doubt, are well aware that her singing career began with chart-topping success in the disco era, with a dancing career that extended all the way back to her childhood.

Here then is a biography offering insight into the fascinating life and prolific career of Sarah Brightman, and the influences that shaped one of this generation's most glorious voices.

Sarah Brightman was born an entertainer. From the tender age of three, she was dancing at festivals in her hometown of Berkhamsted, a sleepy market town outside of London. By age five, she was performing up to four routines and winning them all.

It was her ballet teacher, an examiner for the Royal Academy of Ballet, who made her parents aware that Sarah was unusually gifted. As such, Sarah’s show business aspirations were regarded not as childhood fantasy, but as precocious ambition, deserving of regard and nurture.


Despite severe bouts of homesickness, she enrolled in a performing arts boarding school at age eleven and was well on the way to furthering her dreams at that pre-pubescent age.

As a child, Sarah was exposed to an eclectic assortment of music, for hers was a household where Tom Jones and Tchaikovsky got equal billing and airtime. Sarah was just as happy twirling around in the kitchen to psychedelic pop as she was executing ballet maneuvers to serious classical movements.

It is perhaps not surprising that decades later, Sarah Brightman would break musical ground by fusing seemingly incongruous genres; gliding seamlessly between pop and classical, dance and trip-hop, Gregorian chants and Eastern refrains. Even her gravitation towards Gregorian chants can be traced back to her years of singing in Berkhamsted's church choir.



Scarcely two lines into her song at the Cats audition, Sarah was stopped short and told that she had earned a personal meeting with Andrew Lloyd Webber at his home. The next day, an aide called and summoned Sarah to Andrew's flat.

The Cats audition had called for performers who regarded themselves as “unusual.” Sarah rather ostensibly fit the bill, arriving in conservative Belgravia flamboyantly attired in aquamarine and crowned in a blue mohican hairstyle. Her rendition of “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” followed by “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” visibly impressed Andrew who promptly arranged for a series of further auditions with Trevor Nunn.

Months lapsed, however, before Sarah finally got the news that she had been offered a role in Cats. Some year later, Gillian Lynne, the choreographer for Cats (appearing on This Is Your Life, a British celebrity-tribute show honoring Sarah) remarked:

She danced with such sensuality and determination. Nobody taught Sarah her guts. In Cats, everyone kept hurting themselves because it was difficult... and Sarah kept putting her neck out. I'd say, "Do you think you should do the Jellicle Ball... all twelve minutes of it... again?" And she'd say, "Yes, I’m not going to sit down, I’m not going to sit down." And so she'd dance, with her head cocked to one side in pain.



he next installment of the Sarah Brightman biography is being lived right now, by the great lady herself. We will unveil this installment at a later date.

Mudvayne

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Before reading be sure to read this previous post on an informative essay im writing.

The Provocation Of The Female Image

WARNING

(explicit matiriel will be involved, nothing is meant to be erotic or offending, this is merely a scholarly pursuit.)

Mudvayne is an American heavy metal band formed in Peoria, Illinois, in 1996. Members are lead singer Chad Gray, guitarist Greg Tribbett, bassist Ryan Martinie and drummer Matthew McDonough. Signed onto Epic Records, Mudvayne has released five studio albums, two compilations albums, and two DVDs.

Mudvayne rose to fame in 2000 with their debut album L.D. 50, which peaked at number 85 on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified gold by the RIAA. The lead single from the album, "Dig", won the MTV2 Award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2001. This was the first time the award was presented to a metal band. In 2006 Mudvayne was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the Grammy Awards for the single "Determined" from the band's 2005 studio album Lost and Found. Mudvayne has four gold certifications by the RIAA, and has sold nearly 3 million records in the United States, and over 6 million records worldwide.

The End of All Things to Come

In 2002, the band released the album The End of All Things to Come. Mudvayne participated in the 2003 Summer Sanitarium Tour, headlined by Metallica.[6]
[edit] Lost and Found

In 2005, the band released its third album, Lost and Found.[6]

In mid-2005, Mudvayne played on the main stage of Ozzfest. After this tour Mudvayne started a world tour which included Australia, North America and Europe. During their show in Sydney various Australian TV personalities made an appearance such as Nikolas Crowfoot, Mitch Jones and Craig Welton. These concerts were a great success. Mudvayne originally toured Australia in 2001 as part of the Big Day Out festival.

The single "Happy?" was also the theme song for WWE Pay Per View Vengeance 2005.
[edit] By the People, for the People

By the People, for the People is a compilation album released on November 27, 2007 by Epic Records. The album features a track listing chosen entirely by the band's fans, with the band determining which version appears on the record (e.g. live, demo, acoustic), as well as two new songs, "Dull Boy" and a cover of The Police's song "King of Pain" (both produced by Dave Fortman and written by Bradley Bower).


By the People, for the People is presented in a format where each song is introduced through a short interlude generally no longer than 30 seconds long, where Gray debriefs the listener on surrounding facts such as where the song was recorded or performed live, or distinguishing a demo from an album version. The album debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 22,000 copies in its first week.[7]
[edit] The New Game


After the return of Gray and Tribbett from their touring commitments with side project Hellyeah, Mudvayne began the recording process for The New Game with producer Dave Fortman, who produced their previous effort, Lost and Found.[8] Fortman reported to MTV that the album will be followed six months later by a second full-length record.[9] He attested that while the album should please listeners, it will incorporate a distinct rock and roll sound not heard on previous Mudvayne records. "It's heavy and has great hooks," said Fortman, "but it also has some moments that are a little more rock n' roll that are really cool. It's not anything drastic, but every now and then you'll catch a little hint of old-school rock. Also, the tones are a little more earthy sounding and somewhat warmer than Lost and Found. Although Mudvayne was going to follow up The New Game six months later with an album titled The End Game, the plan never came to fruition. Instead a self-titled album was released a year later.
[edit] Mudvayne

Their fifth full length album, the self-titled Mudvayne, was produced by Dave Fortman's associate Jeremy Parker and is "a little more retro" from a songwriting point of view, according to Gray. "We've been kind of making this natural progression, and I think for this one, we just sort of naturally regressed," he told Noisecreep. "We took the smarter songwriting guys that we've become and mixed it with the not-smart songwriting guys that we were." The album was recorded during Summer 2008 in El Paso, Texas.[10] On October 7, 2009, Mudvayne posted a bulletin on their MySpace saying that they will be releasing a self-titled album on December 22, 2009 followed by a tour. They have two new songs called "Beautiful and Strange" and "Heard It All Before" on their official MySpace page. Mudvayne has been described by McDonough as "the best" CD "the band has recorded since our second album, The End of All Things to Come." The effort will be released in three different formats — a standard jewel case edition, a deluxe version packaged with a black light and a super deluxe edition that features a larger black light, a special edition blacklight-reactive poster and more. For those who pre-ordered the super deluxe edition they would receive a full album download two weeks before the album release. Only a 1000 of the super deluxe edition were available.[11]

The artwork for the CD was printed entirely in blacklight-reactive ink, making it only visible under a black light (a source of light whose wavelengths are primarily in the ultraviolet) In the limited edition packaging, a key chain blacklight is included.[11]


yes taken from wikipedia. mudvayne is very complex. their music is unique an if any of you know me you know i love unique. so heres mudvayne enjoy.

Breaking Benjamin

Before reading be sure to read this previous post on an informative essay im writing.

The Provocation Of The Female Image

WARNING

(explicit matiriel will be involved, nothing is meant to be erotic or offending, this is merely a scholarly pursuit.)

Breaking Benjamin was my first concert with seether, red, and three days grace. while these bads arnt popular with some groups, it was a major moment for me. i love this band. i rarely hear a song by then i dont like, Phobia being my favorite album, i was truely inspired by them. the following is a little bit of their history.

Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, consisting of Benjamin Burnley and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four studio albums to date and a greatest hits album on August 16, 2011. The group initially went on indefinite hiatus due to frontman Benjamin Burnley's recurring illnesses and inability to tour in mid-2010. Further complications arose in August 2011, when it was revealed that members Mark Klepask and Aaron Fink had been fired from the band.

If you want to get inside Ben Burnley’s head, just look at the Dear Agony album cover– it’s an actual scan of the singer’s brain. The lyrics to the first single, “I Will Not Bow,” provide further insight: “Now’s your chance to run for cover / I don’t want to change the world / I just want to leave it colder.” Then there’s the musicality—trademark Breaking Benjamin, full of uber-catchy choruses, dexterous drumming, intricate, powerful riffs and a darkly compelling vibe. It’s a sound that gave the band the #1 rock hits “So Cold” and “Sooner or Later” off 2004’s platinum We Are Not Alone,” and “Breath” and “Diary of Jane” off 2006’s recently certified platinum Phobia. On Dear Agony, produced again by David Bendeth (Paramore, Killswitch Engage), Breaking Benjamin upped the ante, as Burnley notes:

“We’ve been together 8 years, which is like 20 years these days. We’ve honed our sound and focus. Being on the road, you become a better musician, and the more music you listen to and the more experiences and people you’re exposed to, the more complicated you become, the more complicated your music can become.”

Indeed, behind insinuating layers of melodies and radio-ready rock riffs are intense and complex feelings explored and expressed by Burnley. “The title track started as a sort of ‘letter to agony.’ I have some symptoms and health issues that just won’t go away, so I equate it to anybody who has a permanent illness, in that you deal with it and it becomes a part of you.” That said, Dear Agony is the first album Burnley recorded since he quit drinking. “I can’t say if it would have been a better or worse album if I’d been drinking. For me, drinking was a way to put myself in an inspirational mindset to write and create. Writing sober is more time-consuming… waiting for that inspiration to hit. But when you do write, you know it’s good, you don’t have to wait until you’re sober the next day and listen to it,” he laughs. Proof positive of Burnley’s ever-increasing songwriting skills are the 11 stellar tracks on Dear Agony–the dynamic ‘I Will Not Bow” was snapped up for the Bruce Willis flick “Surrogates,” while ‘Give Me a Sign” is an instantly memorable mid-tempo classic, in contrast to the raw, aggro intensity of “Hopeless.”


Recorded at the appropriately named House of Loud studio in New Jersey with David Bendeth, Breaking Benjamin was thrilled to do their third album with the Brit producer again at the helm. As bassist Mark James notes, “it’s the first time we worked in a studio owned by a producer, which helped the process immensely as far as a comfort factor. We were not afraid to try something new, to jump off the edge of the cliff and put ourselves out there. The bar has been raised pretty high, but it’s crucial to stay relevant and excited and exciting.”

Though Dear Agony is a forceful title, it doesn’t sum up any theme for the CD, as Burnley explains. “It’s pointless to ask me what a song is about—it’s about whatever the listener feels when they listen to it. That’s what the song exists for.” Though Burnley is the sole lyricist, he did some collaboration with Jasen Rauch, guitarist of Grammy-nominated band RED. “He has his band, I have mine, and they’re two totally different things,” Burnley notes, “but together we have a flow. I’m really fortunate to know him and work with him.” Akin to Tool and Nirvana, two Breaking Benjamin inspirations, Burnley likewise crafts cryptic, evocative lyrics. “I don’t particularly like listening to songs that are very obviously about something unless it’s something really, really clever and cool,” says the frontman. “I try to make it so that every line is a self-contained thing.” Though Burley titled the previous CD Phobia, he finds writing about personal issues hasn’t proved cathartic, especially when it comes to his well-documented fear of flying. “I didn’t get into a band to fly. I never kept it a secret. That’s one thing I’m not going to bend on,” he states. “I’ll have that fear until the day I die. Being in a band doesn’t change that in any way whatsoever.”

That said, BB ventures far from their Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania home base, touring in front of rabid fans for months at a time. For his part, guitarist Aaron Fink is looking forward to road-testing the new tunes: “You see the visceral reaction between you and the audience, and you know what songs and riffs are working,” he says, adding, “If you like Breaking Benjamin, you’re gonna like this record.” James concurs: “All our records are quite eclectic, so there’s a song for any mood. We’re excited to tour, and along with our great catalog, we now have these new songs to reach from.”

As for Breaking Benjamin’s growth since Saturate, Burnley cites an apt analogy: “If you have a kid, and you’re around the kid every day, you don’t know how much it’s growing. But if you spent a few months away and came back and looked at him, and he was three feet taller and had facial hair, you’d be like “wow, you’ve changed so drastically!” That’s how it is. I haven’t noticed the change as much, because I’ve been there creating it every single step of the way.”


Breaking Benjamin believe it’s a need to not do the same thing twice that created the musical evolution evident on Dear Agony. “I never put out anything I’m not 100 percent satisfied with, but then again, you’re never going to find a group of people who have the same favorite song,” says Burnley. “They’re all going to say ‘this song rocks, this song sucks.’” That said, Breaking Benjamin is thrilled with their place in the rock pantheon. “I totally realize that we’d be nothing without our fans. That’s just a given. We’re the kind of people who have our jobs because what we like just so happens to be what a lot of people like,” Burnley concludes. “I’ll be honest: I write music for myself, and if other people like it, that’s awesome.”

The Provocation of the Female Image

I am a Student at Cameron University. Obviously this keeps me from going into too much depth in this blog. Its difficult to find time and effort to post things at this point.
However i did want to take time out of the usual grind and point to a situation that has come to my attention starting back to the Kiki Kannabal post.

You see throughout history women have held a specific place in society. over time this place has changed and evolved, in my opinion for the better, and while posting on miss Kannabal i had a question.

Why would people be driven to do this. Why would someone term someone whom is flaunting what they have or openly sexual, not just Kiki but many girls.
Strippers, pornstars, scene queens, Models. People through the word slut like no tommorrow. Why can men walk around with no shirt on but the moment a woman puts on some daisy dukes, she becomes a dirty whore?


I am writting an essay over the provoking imagry of woman. in it i will be addressing the sociological and, since im a phycology major, the psycological aspects of this imagery.


in other words i wanna know why Shit like this happens<
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or why this image is automatically met with disapproval. in order to do this perfectly i wish for your help. if you do look at this blog at all please send it to others. have them read this post and put in their imput. if you or anyone you send
this too hasany arguments for and against this sort of topic, im all ears. send me an email at dylonishere123@hotmail.com thanks

Disturbed

Heavy metal band Disturbed came together through the matching of a band with a singer. Longtime friends Dan Donegan (guitar), Mike Wengren (drums), and Fuzz (bass) played together in Chicago for some time before hooking up with singer David Draiman around 1997. Draiman had grown up in a religious family against which he rebelled, being expelled from five boarding schools in his adolescence. His anger found an outlet in the thrashing sound of Disturbed, and the band built up a following on Chicago's South Side before a demo tape led to their signing to Giant Records, which released their debut album, The Sickness, in March 2000. The band gained more fans and exposure playing the main stage of the 2001 Ozzfest, then breaking away to do their own self-described "victory lap" around the U.S. that fall. Also during this period, they managed to record a vicious new version of wrestler Steve Austin's theme song that was so good it managed to receive radio play, and they were one of the many bands announced to work on a high-profile Faith No More tribute album.

Free music - Disturbed

Disturbed stepped into the studio after stepping off of the road and began work on a new disc that would reflect their growth as a band. Feeling experimental, the bandmembers worked with producer Johnny K and mixer Andy Wallace in order to create an album that could compare to other classic metal records they admired. Amplifying their fondness for groups like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Pantera, and Soundgarden, Believe was released in the fall of 2002 and was recognized as a heavier, more varied, and ultimately superior record to their debut, ultimately reaching the top of the Billboard 200. After completing a tour to support the album, Fuzz left the band and was replaced by former Union Underground member John Moyer. The tour document Music as a Weapon II appeared in 2004, followed by the ambitious studio full-length Ten Thousand Fists in September 2005 and Indestructible in 2008. In 2010, Disturbed released their fifth studio album, Asylum.


i love disturbed simply becuase of course their unique sound. although much of their music sounds the same, the vocals are truely unique and no one else sounds like them

Kiki Kannibal

To most casual Internet browsers, Kiki Kannibal is just some girl who achieved dubious viral online fame in the MySpace-happy days of 2006
Five years later, Rolling Stone details the quick rise and tragic personal fall of the teenage Internet queen, a story that played itself out in the suburbs of South Florida as much as it did in the dark corners of cyberspace.


The first thing Kiki Ostrenga saw as she ran out the front door of her family's white ranch house were the neon-green words spray-painted across the front path: "Regal Slut." She stopped short. Maybe this is just a dream, she thought. The 14-year-old took a few fearful steps forward. She gasped when she reached the driveway. Her parents' home was splattered with ketchup, chocolate syrup and eggs. And across the garage door, big as a billboard, was scrawled the word "SLUT."

"Oh, my God," Kiki whispered. Her mother and 11-year-old sister stepped outside, and their faces froze in horror. That's when Kiki burst into sobs. This was more than she could handle. For the past year, she had endured the hateful blogs and e-mails, the threats and prank calls, the late-night drive-bys with teenagers screaming her name out of car windows. Just this week, at an all-ages punk show, a pack of girls had recognized Kiki in the audience and jumped her, cramming gum into her bleached-blond hair. But this vandalism of her home was a different level of harassment.

A year earlier, Kirsten "Kiki" Ostrenga was just another tween nobody living her so-called life in Coral Springs, Florida. Then she got a MySpace account, and everything changed. A stylish wisp of a girl who adored punky "scene kid" fashion, Kiki began filling her MySpace page with pouty photos of herself in heavy makeup and cropped tops, adopting a persona as brash and outrageous as the real Kirsten was awkward and insecure. She named her creation "Kiki Kannibal," and her new and improved online self swiftly became an Internet celebrity. But fame had come with a backlash she could never have anticipated.


Still crying, Kiki clambered into the family car. Despite that morning's shock, she had to run: She was late for the first of two appointments, which summed up her life. The first was a modeling gig at a local hair salon, for which Kiki was dolled up in a pink tube top, skinny jeans and heels, her makeup now a tragic ruin. Her second appointment was with a sex-crimes detective, investigating a pedophile who had sought her out online and taken advantage of her.

As her mom backed the car out of the driveway, Kiki took one last look at their house, where her father stood before the graffiti-ridden garage, raising one hand in a cheerless goodbye. She wondered if this would go down as the strangest day of her young life.

Not by a long shot. Kiki was hurtling into a twisted online realm, populated not just with trash-talking teens but also with stalkers, hackers, predators and profiteers. She didn't realize the Web can be a portal for people's cruelest impulses, or that it allows those forces to assemble into a mob. She didn't know that her life was about to become an extreme parable about connection and celebrity in the digital age — that the next four years would be fraught with danger, threats to her family, and a violent death. She had yet to understand what a lot of us don't comprehend: that our virtual lives can take on their own momentum, rippling outward with real-life consequences we can neither predict nor control.

Thirteen-year-old Kirsten Ostrenga moved with her family to Coral Springs in 2005. The Ostrenga family thought the move to sunny South Florida would be good for the family, but Kirsten failed to adapt to her new surroundings. According to Rolling Stone, she never fit in with the black and Hispanic students "who dominated her classroom" at Sawgrass Springs Middle School, so she embraced her outsider status and began to experiment with hair dye, turning herself into a proto-"scene queen" and listening to pop-punk and emo bands.

By the time she turned 14, Kirsten had adopted the nickname "Kiki Kannibal" and settled on her signature hairstyle: a giant mess of black-striped blond hair that resembled a dead raccoon. Still feeling lonely, she turned to MySpace to make friends. Fascination (both earnest and ironic) with her hair led to her becoming a bona fide MySpace celebrity and frequent target of online harassment.

Her home address was posted online, and kids begin harassing her at shows. Gum was crammed into her hair, a group of guys in their 20s pestered her to pose for a photo and then punched her in the head, and someone spray-painted slut on her family's garage door. Local police repeatedly said there was little they could do

Despite the harassment, her parents never insisted Kiki get offline, and soon she met a boy through MySpace. Daniel de Jesus Cespedes came from a broken home in Miami-Dade but had found a modicum of fame online as "Mr. MySpace." He told Kiki and her parents he was 17, though in fact he was 18. The two began dating, and Kiki's parents felt sorry for his home life, so he became a frequent guest at their house. His mother often complained about the dyed hair and eyeliner he often came home with, and called Kiki's parents to complain, "He looks like a fucking faggot!" She even threatened, "You and your daughter, you ain't gonna be around no more!"

Kiki's parents called police, but like before, the officers said there was nothing they could do.



Cespedes, though, wouldn't stop seeing Kiki despite his mother's pleas and even got a tattoo of Kiki, raccoon hair and all, inked on his arm.

But one night, Cespedes pressured Kiki into sex against her will. The abuse continued until Kiki ended the relationship and told her mother about it.

The police finally decided to take action, but Cespedes had recently moved to North Carolina with his family. Cops discovered that Cespedes had a habit of pressuring underage girls, some as young as 12, into sex after meeting them online.

Cespedes eventually returned to Florida several months later, and Kiki learned he was dating a 14-year-old girl. That's when police moved in.

They found Cespedes surrounded by underage girls at Aventura Mall. He also had marijuana stashed in his backpack and cocaine hidden in his shoe.

They quickly cuffed him in the parking garage, but a gust of wind caught a piece of paper Cespedes was holding, so the arresting officer temporarily let him free to retrieve it. That's when Cespedes ran and jumped from the second story of the parking structure. Authorities believe the handcuffed 19-year-old was trying to jump on top of a moving van below but tripped on the railing and fell to the asphalt. He was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital and died after spending two months in a coma. A WSVN report on the 2007 incident is titled "Accused molester almost died trying to elude authorities."



Internet detractors began blaming Kiki for his death, and the harassment, both online and in real life, escalated. Her parents decided it was best to leave Coral Springs. Her father took a deep pay cut to transfer, and their Coral Springs home fell into foreclosure before they could sell it.

However, not once did Kiki's parents ever force her offline. Now 18, she lives in Orlando, but her online past continues to haunt her. Her life has been forever marred by the dangers of the Internet and its shady characters, lax law enforcement, and South Florida's crappy real estate market. Oh, and that haircut.