Bo Burnham Art Is Dead Analysis

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Everyone has a favorite song that, whenever they listen to it makes them feel a certain way. To us this song is the most wonderful thing we know but to the people who made the song, it’s an easy way for them to make a quick buck. Although many people have genuine motives for being in the entertainment industry, entertainment and art today have turned into a money making, greedy business. Because the entertainment industry has such a large impact on society, it has affected many of our social norms. Bo Burnham is a part of the entertainment business and shares his thoughts about it in his song “Art is Dead”.

There are many forms of art today, such as music, film, paintings etc. One new modern form of art is celeberties. This new art form is unique in certain ways because rather than the person making art, the person is the art.“In fact, celebrity really isn't a person. Celebrity is
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People had things to say just like today, they just didn't have the platform to share their thoughts and opinions on. So if they didn't have social media, where would they say what they want to say? “People have long held strong views, but they didn't have the venues in which to express it, says Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University.‘If you hung out in beauty parlors or barber shops, you probably heard similar kinds of responses, but that's where they stopped.’” People said things just like they do now, only what they said wasn’t heard by the amount of people who would hear it today. Usually people would say something then and it would die in the conversation, but with social media today those small conversations can turn into a much larger discussion. Social media has changed society from this to what we know now. Along with these changes are businesses looking to take advantage on an opportunity to make some