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Assignment Three - Lifestyle or Popular Culture Review

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Under the Influence  Scrolling through social media, I see friends, family, companies, and celebrities all posting about their latest vacations, products, or what they ate last night. This is what social media was meant for, to share your life with the world, however you choose to do so. Along with all of the friends and companies I follow, influencers flood my feed. A social media influencer is a person who has the power to affect the purchasing decisions of a consumer based off their knowledge of a product. Two influencers that I follow and watch on a regular basis across multiple platforms is KKFit. Twin athletes who are influencers for the athletic apparel company Gymshark. KKFit is the name of the "brand" and social media accounts of these two girls, Kathryn and Kendra. I stumbled across them years ago on my search for inspiration to get in the gym. When I followed them they had probably around 20 thousand followers and have since grown to a whopping one million follower...

Assignment Two - Television

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Will You Accept This Rose? Each spring brings forth another season of love on ABC. You know, the type of love where you are forced to date 47 women at once, the love we all long for. Thats right, you guessed it, each Spring brings forth a new season of the Bachelor. The Bachelor is an American television reality dating show that has been a hit since it premiered in 2002. Bachelor nation, the community that makes it all happen, has transformed from on simple dating show into 5 successful ways to find love, but the Bachelor reigns supreme as the original. Each season a new suitor is picked to make his selection from the hundreds of women who apply to make an appearance on the show in hopes of stealing the bachelors heart, and eventually walking away with an engagement. The bachelor usually opens with the lucky guy standing in front of a grand mansion awaiting his potential wives to pull up in their limos. One by one the ladies step out and have a few seconds to make an impressi...

Assignment One - Music

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For the Ladies  There is no surprise that which each passing year female artists are becoming more powerful and working diligently to have their voices heard through their music. Female artists such as Meg Thee Stallion , and Lizzo, and Katy Perry are an empowering voice for women of all ages. While these amazingly talented women are not the only artists who speak loud and proud for women of all ages, they are the three we will talk about today. Megan Thee Stalion recently released a hit single " Body " in late 2020. While this song my be viewed as an explict song to start a hit new tiktik Trent it is so much more than that. Megan speaks to her confidence and how she knows that she is a hot commodity due to her looks and sizes. She also makes it known that she has fought a lot of hard battles to get to this point where she can love herself enough to sing about it.   Lizzo is an artist who speaks to body positivity. Loving every inch of yourself no matter what you look like ...