In the meme below, the anatomy of songs is shown in a comical manner. Since my website focuses on music in all of its aspects, this meme shows the “anatomy” of different genre’s of music. I think this meme comically relates to when we talked about the fidelity and loudness of certain genre’s of music and the production that goes into creating them.
Davison (2012) defines the ideal as “the concept or idea conveyed” (Davison 2012, pp. 123). The ideal behind this meme is to show that there are different and generic ways that songs are created based on their genre of music — and it just so happens that a lot of the songs have the same things. The behavior behind the meme was someone using a software to create a drawing, to make the idea of genre music funny. It’s manifestation, originated from a wordpress site (just like this one), and made its way around from that website.
In this meme (below), is a joke that people that know a little bit of music theory would know about. However, if you know music, the joke is actually pretty funny. For those who don’t get what the symbols mean: it’s saying “funny test posts aren’t my forte, puns like that could get you in treble (like trouble), give it a rest, yeah I think the joke might be falling flat, this would probably be a lot funnier if I could read sheet music, it’s no one else’s fault that you aren’t that sharp.” For music lovers, which my audience consists of, this plethora of puns is hilarious. The meme actually comes from Tumblr, which is a platform we discussed in class as one of the earlier forms microblogging.
The ideal of this meme (above) was to have a conversation using puns or symbols in the language of music. I think that it was intended to show some exclusivity for the music community and at the same time showing humor in something that’s actually really technical and hard to understand. The behaviors of this meme originate from Tumblr comments, which was then manifested by someone who probably thought it was funny, and made its way to other social media platforms. The manifestation is interesting in this case, because it made its way around in a natural manner which was more coincidental opposed to the creations of a lot of other means which are usually intentional.
This meme (below) is referencing Rihanna who is a pretty famous female artist in the music industry. Since my website focuses on female artists, I think this meme supports that idea very well. As far as what we discussed in class, we wen’t over the top 10 songs at one point, and none of them were female. Being that Rihanna is one of the most famous artists, period, I think she represents a huge part of the music industry.
WOMEN IN MUSIC 