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Madonna as Disruptive Shock Artist
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 31, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Beatles, Awards, saint, Enough, Thing, Sire, Blue, Landis, danger, dance, women, juxtaposing, edginess, entertaining, Thriller, music, MTV, decade, large, animal, bands, Broadway, complacency, scandals, hook, Wall, Gary, Jackson, challenge, expectations, pivotal, single, dance, crosses, hippy, shadow, pole, disco, body
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Michael and Madonna helped define
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what MTV was going to be
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how successful it could be as a force in the business
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a tool to bring artists to their audiences
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both were very popular
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both benefited quite a bit from
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both depend to a large extent on the physical presentation
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there is a certain amount of theater and live performance
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you've got to see what they are doing
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you've got to see how Madonna is images
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you've got to see how Michael Jackson is doing with this dance moves
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their music depended on dance beats and -laden melodies
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both Michael Jackson and Madonna arise out of the disco scene
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began to fade at the beginning of the 1980s
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but the idea that songs would be produced mainly for dancing continued to play a big part in the pop music industry
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the idea that having music that was particularly good on the floor was good for business
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Michael Jackson
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originally from , Indiana
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a child star with the Jackson 5
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moved to a new label and renamed themselves as the Jacksons
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Michael Jackson launched a solo career as an adult
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1979 Off the
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first album
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teamed up with Quincy Jones
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two big singles
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Rock with Me
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Don't Stop Till You Get
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one of the most successful disco albums
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1983 Album: Thriller
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#1 in the USA
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#1 in teh UK
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many singles that make the top 5
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most important : Billie Jean
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MTV launched in 1981
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Jackson played Billy Jean in 1983
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18 months of MTV playing to a Wayne's World type audience
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before Michael Jackson's hits
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Michael did the Moon Walk on public television
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people wanted to see it on MTV
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other singles
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Want to be Starting Something
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Human Nature
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Pretty Young
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understood how to reach out and cross over to a white audience
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duet with Paul McCartney: The Girl is Mine
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Beat It
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Eddie Van Halen appears in video
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single:
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the ambition that is starting to make its way into MTV
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record company spent $500,000 to make the video
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runs 10-12 minutes
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directed by John
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did Animal House
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it becomes more than the song
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the video itself is what you had to see
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here's where the aesthetic comes back
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the way we present these things as video
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1987 Album: Bad
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seven hit singles
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five of which went to #1
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"Bad"
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"Man in the Mirror"
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the 80s were in many ways the of Michael Jackson
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his later tragic death and the that swirled around him may take our attention away from how big, important and popular he was in the 1980s
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he was to the 80s what the were to the 60s
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Madonna
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born and raised in Michigan
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not too far from Gary, Indiana where Michael Jackson was born, 3 hours away
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went to the University of Michigan
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scholarship
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didn't finish
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moved to New York to be a dancer
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worked as a waitress
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tried to get into various shows and productions
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had more success with and groups pursuing music
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album: Madonna (1983)
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not so bad
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"Holiday"
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"Lucky Star"
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produced by label: Warner Bros
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had produced records for punk and New Wave bands
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early 80s post disco
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you don't hear the of what Madonna would become with the next album
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happy on the dance floor, girlish voice, no sense of , a lot of fun, no sense of confrontation
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album: Like a Virgin (1984)
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Madonna doesn't just want to be a great dancer for AM radio and dance clubs
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she wants to and she wants to shock
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shock us out of our
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subverts what people think women should be in our society
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disruptive shock artist
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lots of hits
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"Material Girl"
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"Angel"
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"Dress You Up"
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her performance of Like a Virgin at the MTV Video Music (1984)
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starts out atop a wedding cake
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she comes down off the cake
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becomes a type of dance, extremely sexy, sensual and provocative
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juxtaposed the virginal bride and the sexual woman
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challenging men's of women
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good mother
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in bedroom a sexual
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it launch Madonna as an artist of some controversy
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album: True (1986)
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"Papa Don't Preach"
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album: Like a Prayer (1989)
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controversial video
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stigmata on hands
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burning
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fantasy sex with a religious icon of a
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juxtaposing sex, guilt, the , religion, spirituality
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movies
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1985 Desperately Seeking Susan
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1990 Dick Tracy
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opposite Warren Beatty
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was a role model for girls during the Like a Virgin era
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more importantly, she became a role model for women artists
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she took control of her career
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delivered the message that could not only be participants in the music business
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they could be controllers and decision makers
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casts a long for women after her
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she was a smart women who got us to think about some of our assumptions at a time when the culture really was changing in many ways
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pop music can be important in this way since it brings a message to a audience
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and it can be as well
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so in many ways, Madonna was a figure
Spelling Corrections:
provacative ⇒ provocative
Ideas and Concepts:
Vocabulary via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "musical hook, n. a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to catch the ear of the listener, some aspect of the music or the performance that stands out and is easily remembered. 'Particularly Michael Jackson and Madonna had a symbiotic relationship with MTV, both depending on its visual format while bringing MTV to new heights of popularity. Both Jackson's and Madonna's fame depended on a certain amount of theater and live performance, much of their music based on dance beats and hook-laden melodies and physical moves that began to be repeated and made popular by the growing MTV audience."
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