POP Global Jun 13, 2014 global media & entertainment festivals music ... of large-scale artistic gatherings have popped up—even in the most remote areas of the country. According to The New York Times, approximately 30 music festivals have emerged, covering a wide range of musical genres. Notable indie music festival NH7 Weekender held events in four cities last year, and Sunburn, a 3-day electronic music, food, and shopping festival, has also grown to worldwide acclaim. An abundance of festivals celebrate the country’s regional diversity; among them, Ragasthan, which ...
POP Trends Jun 12, 2014 media & entertainment retail books music TV ... later this year in both NY and LA, with nation-wide e-commerce also in the works.J.Crew is preparing to introduce Mercantile, a line featuring merchandise and prices closer to what shoppers would find at a J.Crew Factory store. POP MUSICEMERGENT GENRES SKATE ROCKA connection between skateboarding culture and rock music has persisted since the mid-’70s Dogtown and Z-Boys era, when bands like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith were worshipped as the half-pipe soundtrack of choice. In the ...
Pro Parodies Jun 11, 2014 media & entertainment celebrities music TV video ... , TV, music, books, and celebrities. Such “pro-”parodies are flourishing not as part of an effort to cut down their subjects, but as an original way for fans to celebrate and engage with their favorite culture content. Among young consumers and the actors and comedians they emulate, the desire to parody has become an immediate, instinctive response to everyday content consumption. One can barely keep tabs on the parodies proliferating online and trending across social media; a quick Google video ...
Outer Limits Jun 04, 2014 media & entertainment movies music style TV ... spacetime, hits theaters this November.Passengers, a romance to be released in 2015, stars Keanu Reeves and Rachel McAdams as would-be space colonizers who have to save everyone aboard their ship.Warner Brothers is creating a futuristic re-imaging of Homer’s The Odyssey, set in space. 20th Century Fox is producing The Martian, based on the novel by Andy Weir, about an astronaut stranded on a Martain colony.SPACE MUSICLady Gaga plans to be the first artist to perform in outer space. She’ll play at Zero G ...
The Binge Method Jun 02, 2014 media & entertainment books magazines music TV ... binge mindset now extends beyond the screen. We’re seeing binge behaviors applied to books, magazines, music, gaming, and even social media. Newly popular are speed-reading apps that promise users the ability to tear through their Kindle libraries and Pocket queues at four times their usual reading rates. Among audiophiles, unlimited and inexpensive access to artists’ full catalogues via Spotify is inspiring a new wave of binge listening that can improve one’s understanding of an artist’s ...
POPscape May 30, 2014 media & entertainment magazines movies music TV ... popularity can nonetheless prove popular enough online to warrant a comeback (as was the case with the cancellation and subsequent Netflix revival of Arrested Development, or the Kickstarter-supported creation of a Veronica Mars movie). Similarly, indie music acts can now achieve conventional measures of mainstream success, due to fan-generated coverage and promotion. Just a few years ago, Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra (XL Recordings) debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard charts. More recently ...
Global Music Trends Jun 03, 2018 ... arranger Nick Lutsko sang some of Trump’s whinier tweets to an undeniably emo tune, alluding both to President Trump’s maturity level, as emo is known for its teen angst, and the current reprise of emo music.BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIERWhen it comes to the live events they want to attend, concerts and music festivals rank the highest on young people’s lists; 83% of global youth have attended a concert in the past year or are interested in attending one in the future, and 82% say the same about a ...
Art & Activism Aug 24, 2020 ... as artwork, music, and film by both young adults and brands. Let’s dive in to learn how today’s art and entertainment expands beyond escapism and how minorities are increasingly represented in the media, as well as how brands can use art to aid change. ...
The Media & Entertainment Perspective May 27, 2020 ... their media routines. Their resulting efforts to keep busy have ranged from learning new skills to working on their homes/rooms to binging on media. Some 8 in 10 are watching more TV, movies, and videos, and the same number are listening to more music. As generations that are used to being always on and always on-the-go, the pandemic has certainly forced Ys and Zs to put their lives on pause—but they aren’t pressing pause on entertainment.We are witnessing a time of unprecedented ...
The Hive Mind Dec 16, 2019 ... 2019 Vogue profile, the superstar grimaced when the reporter asked about her long-awaited upcoming album, saying: “No, oh my God, they’re gonna kill you for that! And they’re going to kill me more!” The reporter, puzzled, asked who Rihanna is talking about. “I’m talking the Navy—my scary fans,” Rihanna clarified. Such a revelation, especially from a woman who is at the top of her game, redefining multiple industries including music, fashion, and beauty, is paradigm-shifting. Rihanna’s ...