...Chester was home in his apartment when the phone rang. Hi Mom, nice to hear from you, how’s Dad and the family? That’s why I-I’m calling, your Grandfather Reeves passed away suddenly. Oh MOM, I can’t believe it! I don’t want to believe it. I’ll miss him so. Oh Mom, say it isn’t so! Poor Grammy won’t be able to live without him, they were like two peas in a pod. How are you and Dad holding up? It is very hard for us to accept this also. Your Dad is trying to remain strong, especially for his Mother’s sake. We both had some good cries. We want to have it out of our systems before we are around your Grammy. Don’t hold it back Chester; after we hang-up, you have a good cry. They say it helps. I’ve told your Grammy she may move in with us. We have a big house and she may have the powder room; and the den for her bedroom. We will just have our Den upstairs. It probably will be quiet compared to what it was downstairs, to work at the desk....
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...The celebrity that i know has been labeled as a criminal works in the music industry as a rapper. He is known for impulsively insulting a female country and pop artist during the Grammies of the year 2009, while under the influence of alcohol, to which he claims he drank before his entrance. Currently a lot of individuals consider him an egomaniac, jerk, and a moron. He even has his on comedic photo online of the moment he got on stage at the Grammies and insulted the female artist. The photo tends to have the words i'm going to let you finish, followed by the punchline. The feud between the rapper and the country/pop artist is not over yet and they are still overtly insulting each other through their tracks. The rapper has yet again insulted...
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...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ADELE TO OPEN AT THE 59TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS Music's Ultimate Event —Airs Live, February 12, 2017 HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2017) — The opening act for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards has finally been announced and will be 10-time Grammy winner Adele Adkins formally known as Adele. For the first time, James Corden, an award-winning television personality and performer is set to host the award show. The event will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcasted live on CBS, Sunday, February 12, 2017, at 8 p.m. ET and at 5 p.m. PT. Adele, herself is nominated for five awards this season, which include: Record of The Year (“Hello”), Best Pop Vocal Album (25), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Hello”), Album of The Year (25), and finally Song of The Year (“Hello”). Adele will also perform alongside big names such 10-time Grammy winner John Legend, in a tribute to those that have sadly passed in the music industry, specifically for George Michael. The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will be produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures for The Recording Academy. The executive producer is Ken Ehrlich. Another producer is Ben Winston. The...
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...Issues in Diversity And The Grammy Goes To… Imagine that you are the president of the music industry’s biggest, most prestigious, and only peer-recognized award, the Grammy. For several years, you’ve received criticism that the number of Grammy awards dilutes the awards’ impact. How do you respond? If you’re Grammy president and CEO, Neil Portnow, the decision is rather straightforward—consolidate some award categories and eliminate others altogether. Portnow should have expected dissatisfaction from some artists about the decision, especially from those whose category would be eliminated. But what Portnow could not have anticipated was that the decision to restructure the awards would lead to threats of legal action, allegations of racism, and calls to boycott the telecast. The Grammy awards have undergone many changes over the years, from the expansion of award categories to changes in the nomination and voting process, most of the changes that are in response to a changing music industry. What began with 28 award categories in 1959 had increased 289% to 109 in 2010, leading to criticism that the increased number of categories not only confused consumers, it reduced the perceived value of winning a Grammy. The 2011 review of the Grammy award structure was its first-ever comprehensive evaluation. Some of the most highly publicized changes included the elimination of gender-specific subcategories in the R&B, pop and country fields; the elimination of the Zydeco...
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...Management Institute At Strayer University JWI– 518 Since it's opening it's first establishment in Denver, Colorado in 1993, Chipotle Mexican Grill now has more than 1200 locations including restaurants in 41 states, Canada, and England. Considering it's success, it is unlikely that Chipotle would have earned a net income $215 million(1) last year without the strategic implementation of social media. Chipotle has employed social media as both a stand-alone means for promotion, as well as a smaller component to much larger campaigns. Among the successful applications are burrito give-aways, event promotion, “foil” art contests, and the most notable and successful “locally grown” campaign – which included a recent spot during the 2012 Grammy Awards. The “locally grown” campaign is indeed Chipotle's most involved social media promotion, including videos, contests, and conversations all surrounding the local farming movement. The campaign's official moniker is “Food with Integrity,” and according to the official website is a “commitment to finding the very best ingredients raised with respect for the animals, the environment and the farmers.”(2) “I think it's really important that people know where their food comes from” says Steve Ells, Founder and Chairman of Chipotle. The campaign's first successful venture was the “Boorito” event, where they encouraged customers to dress up as family farm-inspired costumes in exchange for a $2 meal. The estimated $1 million in proceeds...
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...Chipotle Mexican Grill’s Value Chain Primary Components Food with integrity Chipotle is only focusing to use organically grown local produce, organic beans, organic dairy products and meats from animals that are the highest possible animal welfare standards. Chipotle is provided with simple, fresh food without artificial flavors or fillers. They are just genuine raw ingredients and their individual, delectable flavors. Chipotle cares deeply about where their ingredients come from. While industrial farming practices have evolved to maximize profits and production, it makes an extra effort to partner with farmers, ranchers, and other suppliers whose practices emphasize quality and responsibility. Chipotle collects and chooses their raw materials from small farms come in many sizes where the suppliers share many of the great values. Chipotle Mexican Grill as a place that used high-quality, “better for you” ingredients in its dishes. Serving order quickly and excellent customer’s service One of Chipotle’s biggest innovations had been creating the ability to have a customer’s order ready quickly. Chipotle’s service line is working as fast as it ever has. Chipotle workers set up the line so that everything is read before the peak hour rush gets in. Once customers order the food, the employees prepare and assemble the order behind the counter so that the customers don’t need to wait to get the order too long. The target is at least 200 and up to 300 customers per hour in order...
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...generally used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. Televisions have evolved from the big boxes with antennas on top to a sleek more attractive trend that people will spend anywhere from $500 to $5000 on. Within the next two decades I believe that today’s television will be in a museum. In twenty years I presume that the impact of televisions will rapidly advance. The television, though used generally for entertainment, will soon be used for more than just that. Social dynamics and synergistic experiences will drive more event-based viewing. While the viewing landscape grows increasingly fractured, consumers still want to be part of the collective social experience of events such as the Super Bowl or the Grammy Awards. If content creators can build a strong social experience around a program (e.g., gaming and other social second screen experiences) viewers will not want to be left out and be driven back to the screen. Bingeing will drive more innovation in measurement and personalization. “M&E companies will need to measure “bingeing” (where a viewer consumes several hours of the same back-to-back content in a single sitting) more granularly than broadcast television is measured today. Using data analytics, companies can then package the right experiences for advertisers and monetize them directly by building a model that caters to different types of binge viewers. The challenge to be solved is obtaining this data from...
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...MYTHS The word myth was derived from the Greek word mythos. In English this means word or story. In an academic context, a myth is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation. A myth is any invented story. Myths are ideas or stories believed by many people but is not true, also stories told in an ancient culture to explain a practice, natural occurrence, or some belief. A myth is used a lot in short stories or folktales that have been told through so many generations that are sometimes not so true. These stories are told in a way that the people listening to them actually believe parts of it to be true. I believe there are so so many common mythological themes across different cultures. They are so many that you would take all day to list them. I know I have learned in school that the Thais, Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans share the myth about the rabbit in the moon. The Thais believe it is dehusking rice. The Chinese believe it is pounding medicine. The Japanese and the Koreans believe it is making rice cakes. They all differ by what the rabbit is doing. These places are not far from each other but differ in these ways they believe. Belief, knowledge, mythology, and religion all go together in a way that people think or go by. Belief is what someone thinks is true and they know no other way to think. Knowledge is having that belief and knowing what you think is true. Mythology...
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...Best Couple Award goes to Rihanna and Chris Brown Chris Brown and Rihanna have undoubtedly been the most infamous couple to tarnish the pages of tabloids over the past 4 years. Rihanna, a Barbadian born and raised beauty, before Chris got to her that is, had catapulted to fame and glory after penetrating the music industry. Unfortunately, she soon became one of the worst recorded cases of being consumed by the industry. Being from the Caribbean, I'd like to think that shame is something inbred in our regional culture but Rihanna was apparently on the short end of that receiving stick. The notorious incident took place on February 8th, 2009, mere hours before they were scheduled to appear at the Grammy Awards. How appropriate that such barbaric behavior took place just hours shy of music's most prestigious event. True class this Chris Brown embodied. It was reported that Brown "punched, bloodied and threatened to kill" his girlfriend (Chris Brown Charged…). The beat-down occurred after an enraged Rihanna tossed the keys to Brown's Lamborghini out the window (Chris Brown and Rihanna…). As every gentleman would, Brown naturally threw fists at the pop princess to the point of unconsciousness. The images that later surfaced of Rihanna were barely distinguishable from roadkill. It was safe to say that with every slap Brown knocked an ounce of beauty away. It goes without saying that Hollywood was flabbergasted. Funny enough, Brown has been quoted to say "I used to always feel...
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...group's contract was not renewed. Anita returned to Detroit and worked at a law firm as a receptionist. In 1981, Otis Smith, who was the man behind Chapter 8, formed his own label called Beverly Glenn. He contacted Anita Baker in 1982 and offered her a deal and she turned it, but when Otis Smith increased the amount of his original offer, and the contract was approved legally, she accepted the contract and she released the album "Songstress" in 1983. In 1986 she signed with Elektra. At this time was also producing her debut album "Rapture", on her new label. “The Rapture” sold over 6 million records worldwide and earned Anita two Grammy awards: Best R&B Female Performance for the album "Rapture" and Best R&B Song for "Sweet Love". In 1987, Anita began working on her next album, "Giving You the Best That I Got". Anita Baker won three Grammies for the album; one in1989 for Best R&B Female Performance, one in 1990 for Best R&B Song, "Giving You the Best That I Got" and one for Best R&B Song, "Just Because". She...
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...Good reasons Justin Bieber is one of the best singers Can you imagine a young kid having a few views on YouTube, selling out stadiums like Madison Square Garden within a few years? Whether you could imagine it or not, it’s possible, even at 12 years old. Justin Bieber is one of the best singers in 2016 because he has a bunch of awards, his songs and videos have millions of views, and he can sing. One main reason that Justin Bieber is one of the best singers is because he has many awards. In 2010, after he had just started he won artist of the year. Over the past 7 years of him being famous, he’s won 14 billboard awards. He has also been nominated for many since 2009, and he’s won about 100 of them. Finally in 2016, he won his first Grammy....
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...Get Me In, Part 4: Create a Plan to Monetize a Song V J L Mus 320 February 18, 2016 Get Me In, Part 4: Create a Plan to Monetize a Song In week 3 we were asked to create a publicity, marketing, and promotional strategy designed to introduce the specific artist we focused on. My artist was Adele; Adele is a well-known music artist and songwriter. The purpose of week 4’s paper is to create a sales and distribution plan that will help Adele generate more income. When it comes to describing Adele and a specific brand it can be rather complicated in a sense that she (Adele) has made it clear and in fact “The word may be everywhere now, but Adele doesn't want to be called a "brand." “I don’t like that word,” the record-breaking singer said of "brand" in a new interview for the cover of Time magazine. “It makes me sound like a fabric softener, or a packet of crisps. I’m not that" ("Business Insider ", 2015). She went on to say that “She believes that artists should strive to be deeper than a "brand and more like a package for their fans” ("Business Insider ", 2015). With that being said and honoring the wishes of my artist I will begin to explain how Adele has been able to remain on top without being “branded” per say. She sticks to her roots and what she is comfortable with whether it is her style, her drive, her music, and her sound and as uncommon as that is for an artist today she has managed to outsell and outshine almost every artist to date. Maybe it is the stance...
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...Sings, was nominated for a National Book Award and made her a symbol of pluck and pride for African-American women. In the 1950s Angelou had been a dancer and stage actress, and she was active in the civil rights movement (she became a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, thanks to a request from Martin Luther King, Jr.). During the 1960s she spent five years in Africa, working as a journalist and a teacher. Angelou returned to the United States and in 1969 published I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. In 1972 she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie. Since then, Angelou has continued teaching, writing, acting, producing, recording (she won Grammy Awards for the spoken word for the years 1993, 1995 and 2002) and collecting honorary degrees from across the United States. Since 1981 she has been the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. At Bill Clinton's request, Angelou wrote a poem -- On the Pulse of Morning -- for his 1993 inauguration as U.S. president. I chose one of Maya Angelou (Phenomenal Woman) for two reasons. One I feel that Maya is still one of the best poets in the world whose poems are studied in the universities around the world. Nothing can be taken from her. I love her so much. Two her poems are always uplifting and so powerful it actually makes you feel the poem. I believe that this poem, "Phenomenal Woman" will be...
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...Maya Angelou is one of the most famous African-American women figures. As well as an inspiring figure as a poet, Maya is also well known to have been a great actress, educator, historian, author, playwright, director and producer (mayaangelou.com/bio/). At the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Maya was also inspired to become involved in the civil rights movement. Mary has many famous works; however she is very well-known for her autobiography: I know why the Caged Bird Sings. In that autobiography, Mary pours out the first seventeen years of her life, then writes about her years following in another autobiography. Maya Angelou's former name was Marguerite Ann Johnson. Maya got the nickname from her older brother bailey, who had a speech issue and couldn't pronounce Marguerite. He started calling her Maya because he read a book on Mayan indians, and the name stuck (achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0bio-1). Her parents divorced when she was only three years old, and she and her older brother Bailey were sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas three years after Maya was born. Maya grew up in the south during a very racist period and the traditional african-american courtesy and respect . She had a hard young life, and writes in her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings" how she remembers being more literate than her own mother (Angelou 91). After living with her grandmother for a few years, which her and her brother would call "momma", Maya and Bailey went...
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...Maya Angelou, born April 4th 1928, grew up with a lot of challenges she had to face in life. At a young age, her parents’ marriage was broken and she was forced to live with her grandmother. While living with her grandmother, she was faced with prejudice and racial discrimination. A few years later her father popped up in her life and sent her to live with her mother, where a couple of years went by and she was being abused by her mother’s boyfriend. Maya told her family and that man was put in jail for only one day. He was beaten to death a few days after being released from jail, which caused her to become mute for almost 5 years. I think that with everything Maya Angelou has been through, so far in her life, if she was not a strong enough person, she probably would have drowned herself in sorrow and punished herself for all that has happened in her life. Instead, she moved back to Stamps, where her grandmother lived, and began to meet with Ms. Bertha Flowers, who was a family friend and teacher. Ms. Flowers helped Maya with literature, art, and managed to help Maya find her voice again. When Maya hit thirteen years of age, she decided to reunite with her mother in San Francisco. She attended high school and worked very hard. She also received a scholarship to study dance and drama at the California Labor School. Maya had to drop out of high school to become San Francisco’s first female, African-American streetcar conductor. Finally, she returned to school, even though she...
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