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Step into the electrifying world of pop's most audacious innovator. This no-holds-barred biography plunges you into the mind of Charlotte Emma Aitchison, known to millions as Charli XCX - the artist who dared to defy expectations and redefine an entire genre.From underground warehouse raves to sold-out arenas, journey with Charli as she evolves from a wide-eyed teen into a fearless musical revolutionary. Uncover the raw emotions behind hit singles like "Boom Clap" and "1999," and witness the birth of groundbreaking albums that sent shockwaves through the industry. But this isn't just a story of chart-topping success. Dive deep into Charli's battles with anxiety, her relentless pursuit of cre...
(Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part as well as in the vocal line.
This is a lively and thought-provoking book about how to do creativity, unlock your potential, and make a difference. The artists, musicians, and writers we think of as ’very creative’ are just like us, except that they have spent time developing and realising ideas, and have found the confidence to share them with the world. None of this comes naturally. This wide-ranging book offers research, advice, and philosophy to fuel your understanding and passion for creativity. David Gauntlett draws on his own experiences of making music and experimenting with digital media alongside 25 years of researching creativity. Including insights from a diverse array of creators, this book highlights the vitality of the individual creative voice in a world where social media offers a weird mix of inspiration and suffocation, and our struggles for social justice are equally hopeful and upsetting. Creativity shows how vulnerability, experimentation, and courage can enable us to become bold and engaging creators.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet. “Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s i...
This volume is the first book-length study of hooks in popular music. Hooks - those memorable musical moments for listeners such as a riff or catchy melodic phrase – are arguably the guiding principle of much modern popular music. The concept of the hook involves aspects of melody, rhythm, harmony, production, lyrical and cultural meaning - and how these interact within a song’s topline and backing track. Hooks are also inherently related to the human capacities for memory and attention, and interact with our previous experiences with music. Understanding hooks in popular music requires a new interdisciplinary approach drawing from popular music studies, pop musicology, and music psychology, and this book draws from each of these disciplines to understand the hooks present in a broad range of popular music styles from the last thirty years.
If you need a simple notebook to write down your thoughts, this one is just for you. Plain, large, with a black cover and a minimalist design, it will serve a multitude of purposes: random writings, journaling, personal thoughts, Size, 6 x 9 inches 100 Pages
"It's Not Me, It's You: Real Talk—If You Don’t Like It, Shame on You (Oops!)" It's Aam Anusorn, B*tch! and I'm here. This book? It’s my unfiltered, no-apologies take on life, people, and the world as I see it. I’ve heard people call my opinions “weird” and “controversial,” but I think the real issue lies with anyone who can’t handle a fresh perspective that doesn’t play by the usual rules. Inside, I’m breaking down everything from the messed-up underbelly of the entertainment industry to what I see as the overblown hype of cancel culture and the BL genre’s hidden truths. I question what most just take at face value and shake up those easy assumptions we tend to rely on. And yeah, I’ll talk about what makes a person “good” or “bad”—spoiler: it’s not as black-and-white as people think. This book is me—raw, real, and unfiltered. And if any of this rubs you the wrong way, well, just remember the title. I’m not
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A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category—the cute—on postwar and contemporary art. The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials, The Cute explores the ramifications of an aesthetic “of” or “about” minorness—or what is perceived to be diminutive, subordinate, and above all, unthreatening—on the shifting forms and contents of art today. This anthology is the first of its kind to show how contemporary artists have worked on and transformed the cute, ...
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