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Essay / Transformation and Beyond: Katy Perry and Britney Spears
When artists go through an emotional downfall in their careers, you see some stars fall and others reflect on the moment when everything started to improve. As Katy Perry said in her interview with USA Today, Prism is "less over-the-top and more 'me'." I realized that when an artist releases an album, it's not just about seeing how many copies he can sell, but it's about making music with feelings, about entering into his inner self and to reach out to those who admire them, the social world. the text of the music is the heart of each song and the album as a whole. Most of the time, artists write about their emotions, but never really about the feeling of what happened. Here, I'll take two artists, analyze their tracks, and show how they made them triumphs through the context of their music. I will describe how these artists were able to create pieces of music that captured a particular emotion and were able to convey their message to the listener. These artists will be Katy Perry and Britney Spears. Let's first take a look at what music is with emotional context, before we talk about these artists. When we think of music, we also think of emotion, but what is it really? What is an emotion? What causes an emotion? Why do we feel emotion when we listen to the words of these artists? As the article "Kendra Cherry's Theories of Emotion" began, she said that psychologist Cannon Bard describes emotion as "the thalamus sends a message to the brain in response to a stimulus, resulting in a physiological reaction”. This means that the message sent by the artists to these listeners triggers emotions in our brain and therefore allows us to understand what the artist is feeling at that moment. If an artist feels in the middle of the paper......he tries to represent. How is it that artists manage to do this? Well, most of the time the artists themselves feel or experience the emotion themselves, as I said above about Katy Perry and how she took on the emotion of sadness through his voice and made his audience feel his pain. Britney Spears is another artist who we have all seen thrive in this context of musical expression. Unlike Katy Perry, Britney didn't grow up in a home with strict Christian parents, her life was pretty normal. She also became a pop star and went through an emotional divorce, but she didn't take the route of sadness that Katy took for her album. Britney instead experienced a more difficult and nastier public divorce that left her feeling an emotion of rage. It was this rage that pushed her to create her album Circus. What the Circus album depicts is what I believe to be an emotional roller coaster of rage.,