Trying to make it big !!!

as a musician i know whatit feels like to struggle on my way to making into the music buisness. since i was 7 years old i have known that music is what i was meant to do!!! i have always taken every opprotunity to get my name into the field of music, when i was 15 i tried out for the popular YTV show "The Next Star" and got cut justbefore the top 16, but to be honest im soooo thankful that i didnt get in, that show isnt about having tons of talent, its about being the most marketable !! now 2 years later i am 1 week away from performing at the waterfront festival in the top ten of "Mississauaga Future Stars" a competition for up and coming singer/ songwriters ages 15 - 25. i am super blessed to have gotten this far, but of course winning is in the back of my mind !! the winner recieves $2000 cash, recording time, a chance to preform at Canadian music week and much more !!!

the thing about the music industry is that you cant just have talent .... alone it wont get you anywhere, you have to be able to take judgments and you have to have the drive ...... so no matter how many times you get pushed down, you haveto get right back up ready to preform and be prepared to get knocked down again. thats why so many people give up on music, because many dream but few make it !!! in the momments that i have been pushed down i always think of somebody who has been exactly where i am ...... Alicia Keys is an amazing musician known worldwide, many people dont know that alicia keys audition for over 50 competitions and pretty much everybody told her she had no chance of making it !!!!! but she never gave up and then one time...... just one ...... somebody took a chance on her and look where she is today !!!!!

all im trying to say is ..... the media may potray that talent is all you need but it is far from that, you can have all the talent in the world, but if you are not willing to work and sacrifice ....... you will get nowhere ....... and i am one of those people who is willing to fight for my chance to make music !!!!

A changed perspective

Since I began this media studies course, my perspective on how media impacts society has completely changed !! a simple trip to the mall fills my mind with thoughts of how all of our society just falls into these categories. there are the people who follow all the trends, there are the people who absolutely shut themselves out from what society tells them to do and then there are those people who kind of fall into both sides and that is just like me. I love keeping up with the latest trends, but no matter how "hot" or popular something is ... if i don't like it i wont wear it !! i find it so sad that some people compromise their own style in order to feel like they belong. i think people need to embrace their own style but truth be told it takes a while to find it. I used to be one of those people who always cared about what people thought. i could never afford the really expensive brands ... so whenever my friends got rid of an abercrombie and fitch sweater for examples .. i would jump at the chance to wear it and have it for myself. its absolutely pathetic how i felt soo much better about myself just by wearing a sweater that all of my friends had. but now that i look back on it everybody else probably felt the same ... or else they wouldn't be wearing the sweater to . now that I'm older Ive learned to embrace the things that i like.... and my clothes don't make me fit into a crowd ..... my clothes make me stand out. yes i wear things that other people like and i guess you could say that they are within all the trends, but i love taking things and making them my own. so i have developed my own style of not really caring what people think ...... i wear what i want to wear and how i want to wear it ..... i sure hope people can develop the same thing ... that way our society would be a much cooler place rather than having a bunch of fashion clones walking around our streets.