As I explained in last post, the development of the internet created new pop culture, video sharing. YouTube and ニコニコ動画 would be the pioneers of this field. These video sharing sites have provided many people with the place to show their talents to a lot of audience all over the world. Therefore, especially YouTube has become the good place to dig up new talents who used to be an amateur. Furthermore, most these newcomers gained their fame by covering famous songs. It means that fans become professional through social media.
I would like to introduce two examples of fans on YouTube.
The first one is Nick Pitera. Nick is a bif fan of Disney films, so he has posted many cover songs of the Film on YouTube since 2006. After graduating University, he is working at Pixer now. I put the most famous his video, the cover of “A Whole New World” from Disney’s Aladdin.
If you are interesting in him, you can see more video from his channel!
By the way, he is also famous in Japan. His jaw line is kind of charming, so some Japanese fans call him “アゴジン.” (アゴ means jaw in Japanese and it puns Aladdin.)
The second example is 2CELLOS.
The development of the internet has created new pop culture, video sharing and given meny people places to flourish.This movement would get a boundary between professional and amateur more ambiguous than before. Video sharing sites are not only pop culture but also the place to influence one's future.
If you are interesting in him, you can see more video from his channel!
By the way, he is also famous in Japan. His jaw line is kind of charming, so some Japanese fans call him “アゴジン.” (アゴ means jaw in Japanese and it puns Aladdin.)
The second example is 2CELLOS.
2CELLOS are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. They are from Croatia. The two were discovered after uploading a music video of their cello-only cover of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" to YouTube. Their video made over 5 million hits in less than 3 months on YouTube. This achievement let them to sign to Sony Masterworks, and then made debut in 2011.
The development of the internet has created new pop culture, video sharing and given meny people places to flourish.This movement would get a boundary between professional and amateur more ambiguous than before. Video sharing sites are not only pop culture but also the place to influence one's future.
I love アゴジン OMG!!
返信削除You did a great job of expressing your ideas in this blog post. You've found good examples of how creative people are able to use YouTube to try to attract an audience.
返信削除It seems to me that Luka are Stjepan are artists. I'm not clear about why you say they are fans?