Planning - Controversy

Controversy is all about image verses video. In some cases we would see that controversial  videos would sell a lot or records, for example Lady Gaga. The issue on controversy has been around since the 1920s and has caused many problems in the music industry. Over the past decades, there has been issues with different music videos. From the soundies to the scopitones, to the promo music videos to glam rock, to hip-hop, rap to now.

Controversy can either occur either in artist image or in their music videos.  Examples of controversy in an artist image is lady gaga.  Artists tend to bring controversy in their image to bring peoples attention to them.  Over the past decades various of artist have tried to portray their image in a certain way to make people judge them in different ways. Many artist do this to get a reaction. Lady gaga and Queen were examples  of controversial artists.            

Lady Gaga is an example of an artists who uses controversy in their image. She creats controvasy by the way she dresses, behaves and performs in public. She wears weird outfits in public to create the controversal idea. By her doing this, she is getting a lot of attention from the public. Creating a contraversal image makes people not forget them, which makes Lady gaga popular because people would not be able to forget her.

Another way controversy can been seen, is in artists music videos. There are vvarious of artists who create a controversy issue in there video. Artists normally do this, to get a reaction from the audience, it is part of a promotion process.



An example of this can be seen in Kanye West 'Power' music video. When this video was released there was a lot of views of the video. People were not happy in some ways because of some activities taken place in the music video. In the video Kanye is seen practising some satanic activities, which brings a whole controversal issue. Another one is that in some parts he tries to put himself as Jesus. By making this video, people up to today have bnot forgotten the music video. Although it went both ways that people hated it and judged him, but others took an interest of buying the album. When it comes to controversy, Artists take a ris which in some ways helps them get a reaction.