Media Diary Week 6

I am somebody who would be classed as a 'music snob'. I usually prefer music were the artist isn't trying to be like everyone else in order to get into the main charts, were you can hear the realness of the music, the passion that the artist has for their music,and if you listen you can hear how much they have worked to get every part to fit together to great a unique sound with many different things. However, I do enjoy listening to Justin Bieber. 

Justin Bieber is a teen pop star whose songs have always been in the charts since the release of his first song 'Baby' in 2010. His songs are usually targeted to the mainstream as they would want to fit in with what is in the charts so that they would be like everybody else and be able to talk to everybody else about the song. I would not usually listen to his music because i have the ideology that music that if a song is being created for the purpose of making money and becoming famous isn't really music. Music should be created by the true emotions of the artists passion and love for music and if they get somewhere by making the music they wont go off the rails, they would stay true to who they are. therefore, Justin Bieber would not be an artist that i would usually listen to. 

I think that I follow the preferred reading for this text. I do enjoy his music and it makes me want to listen to it again and again as well as singing along as loud as i can and i feel that this is what Bieber wants people to do when his songs get played. It appeals to me because it gives me entertainment and escapism.  This is said in the uses and gratifications model. I get escapism as when i listen to his music as the beat is upbeat my mood follows and also goes upbeat. I also get entertainment in different ways. I get it from the upbeat feel to the music; which would be the preferred reading. However i also get humor from his music. I get humor from listening to some of his older songs and they just make me laugh from the little high pitched voice that he had and to go with this the music videos from the songs also make me laugh because he looks so young and is acting as if he is older. This would be the opposition reading of his songs