Updated Proposal

Last week we stated that our topic was going to be about music. Unfortunately, our topic was too broad. So we decided to make our project about how music influences people's fashion and speech through the media.


* How it affects Fashion
- In Japan, Harajuku Girls is a fashion brand that musician, Gwen Stefani, exposes through her songs. It benefits the Japanese who created Harajuku Girls because consumers in America are buying into th Japanese style.
- In rap artist, T-Pain's song: Apple Bottom Jeans, he advertises Apple Bottom jeans which makes people want to wear those jeans.
- The third wave of emo music exposed a new style through musicians' music videos. The new style that began in 2000 consisted of extremely tight jeans, tight shirts, long bangs swooped to the side, black eyeliner, and piercings. "Emo" was never a style, it was a genre, now it's a style.
- Kanye West wore "shutter shades," which is now a fad.
- Screamo music becomes a "Gothic" style.
- Second wave punk brings in mohawks, checkers, etc. (Think of the band Blink 182.)

* Language
- Musicians coin new terms. Snoop Dogg: "Fo shizzle." (Which means: "For sure."
- There are also phrases that younger people use. Examples: What it do? What it is? Drop it like it's hot. I am cute without an e.
- In Japan, the rock music there influences people to speak a certain way. Like, they mix Japanese with English. (Aya knows more about that than I do.)

We're going to upload all of this on a page like MySpace.

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