New Zealand Music

Create a short article on a New Zealand music artist/group you like?
New Zealand music artists and groups are becoming more popular and are making some very good music. Lately I have started to like the group Smash proof as they make an extraordinary comeback and get a number one hit with their song Brother featuring Gin. It is a very cool and catchy song as I didn’t really like it when it first came out. The song is about the neighbourhood and what it’s like out there. It topped the charts for months and was a great successful comeback song.
There are many great New Zealand artists out there that I like such as Adeeze; they had some awesome songs that everyone still likes to sing and J Williams who is like New Zealand’s Chris Brown. Then you can go way back and say singers such as Dave Dobbyn and Prince Tua Teka these are all great artists that we should be proud to call Kiwis. We don’t have all that money like in America but we can still produce some good talent and singers in our little country that go on to be known all over the world. Plus there are many more young ones just waiting to be recognised.
One good thing about New Zealand artist is that you don’t have to pay hundreds just to go watch them play a few songs in concerts. For example last week Smash proof came to Whakatane to play a concert. How great is that, you will never see Chris Brown or Rihanna in Whakatane and they actually beat them for a few weeks on the charts?
Artists such as Scribe and Savage maybe not so popular in New Zealand but are really famous in America and will making lots of money which is really good for New Zealand’s Music being recognised else where. Also top-selling singer Akon first appeared singing alongside savage a New Zealand artist in their hit Moonshine which is where Akon became an overnight hit.

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Album-Orientated Rock
Originally designed to describe a radio format that emphasises various album tracks rather than hit singles only. When broadcasters began to apply structured formatic techniques to the so-called “free form” underground radio of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the result was more commercial and more profitable album –orientated rock. The format became even more restrictive, scrapping the various-album-tracks approach in favour of concentrating airplay on one “emphasis track” at a time from an album, and the term album-orientated rock was replaced in the ‘90s by “rock” or “rock tracks.”

Album-orientated rock has also come to describe a certain style of rock, usually the mainstream or “corporate” brand as opposed to more extremes styles. Caution -British writers frequently interpret the acronym to stand for “Adult-Orientated Rock,” and thus misuse album-orientated rock to describe pop artists whom Americans would more commonly describe as “adult-contemporary” or even “middle of the road.”

Music Television
The first full-time music video network on cable television, signed on in the United States in 1981. Music television immediately made the visual image of an artist as important as the music itself, resulting in huge success for groups that were telegenic enough to appeal to viewers. Duran Duran, Culture Club and George Michael were some of the first performers to feel the impact of music television on their careers. In the long run, videos became an essential promotional tool for virtually all rock artists, and many artists embraced video as another avenue for artistic expression.

Detractors, however, say that the pervasiveness of music means that listeners no longer conjure up their own images when listening to a song; the images have already been conjured up for them, eliminating the pleasure – and responsibility – of using one’s imagination.

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