Music Music Music

1. Dubstep
- Skrillex
- Skrillex is a very popular dubstep DJ that is known worldwide. My sister is a "Bass head", which is what Dubstep lovers are known as, as Dubstep music uses great amounts of Bass and has Bass drops that will blow your mind. Skrillex uses Ableton as his choice of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) to create his beats that have crowds going into a craze. Most DJ's today use computer software which has prerecorded sounds of other instruments to create their music. This directly correlates music and technology as they use mixers, and software to align their beats that they then release to the "bass heads."

2. Post-Modern Crisis
- U2
- U2s recording of "Where The Streets Have No Name" was like something you would see out of a movie as they decided to record the video on the top of a liquor store in downtown Los Angeles before cops ultimately shut it down after 10s of thousands of people got word of it from friends and the radio and decided to go enjoy a free concert as U2 was one of the most popular bands at that time after releasing their album "Joshua Tree." I myself am a huge fan of U2 as well as my mother is. My Mother has seen U2 live upwards of ten times, in 3 different countries including, The USA, Canada, and Ireland. The electric guitar is an instrument that the band heavily relies on to make a soothing sound that flows perfectly with the soft voice of Bono, the lead singer of the band. 

3. Girl Power
- Lady Gaga
- Lady Gaga is very popular and a well-known singer and songwriter of the last decade. She as well recently stared in the Grammy-nominated and winning movie, "a Star Is Born." Gaga uses many technologies in her live performances as well as her music video performance to engage her viewers as much as possible. Her halftime performance at the Superbowl in 2017 was one for the ages that saw her being performing on top of the stadium and then slowly dropping down to the stage on the field with the help of some harnesses. Which then features her doing flips in the air while laser beams and lights flash around her to excel the visual effects of her performance. 

4. Punk
- Sex Pistols
- The Sex Pistols are a very influential band from the Punk era. The Sex Pistols rely heavily on the use of the electric guitar and the synthesizer to craft their music. you can also hear a little bit of auto-tune that the lead vocalist used to produce a very unique sounding voice. I chose the Sex Pistols because I am already familiar with their music so I knew a great deal of what they use to produce their wonderful punk music 

5. Virtual
- Gorillaz
- The Gorillaz are a band that I have never seen before. They do not have real musicians who perform but instead of virtual characters that are supposed to resemble the band. This in itself is a use of technology as they have to make the animated characters appear as if they are singing the songs and mouthing along to the lyrics. This new wave band is a pretty cool idea because the performers in the band never have to perform, they just record the music and then let their animated characters go on tour and make the music videos. This is something that I look forward to seeing how it can progress in the future as virtual performances will take away the stress of musicians who go on tour and have to be separated with their families and also will allow the musicians to hide their fame behind an animated character.