'Starting to See Change': USC Annenberg Study Finds Small Shift Toward a More Inclusive Music Industry

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Taylor Swift’s new Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, offers a rare, unfiltered look at the behind-the-scenes life of one of the world’s biggest pop stars. She’s previously spoken out about feeling subject to different standards than her male peers, and in the documentary’s final minutes, she further sounds off about feeling pressured to be everything to everyone in a way men aren’t.

Flawed and simplistic metrics may be misleading Hollywood's power brokers about the factors that determine box office success and perpetuating gender and race biases, a new study suggests.Complicating longtime adages that films with female and/or underrepresented lead or co-lead stars don't perform as well as those with white, male stars, the former receive lower production and print and advertising (P&A) budgets and distribution density (they were released in fewer theaters) than the latter,

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Taylor Swift doesn't care about your approval. Not anymore.That's the narrative that takes shape in the new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, in which director Lana Wilson follows Swift over the course of the pop star's personal and professional redefinition of her own career.

Despite the lack of actors of color nominated at the 2020 Oscars, 2019 was a year of positive change for inclusion in popular movies.Research from the USCAnnenberg Inclusion Initiative examined the 100 top-grossing films of 2019 andfound that there was a notable improvement in the representation of both actors of color and females.Last year, 31 of thetop 100films featuredan underrepresented lead or co-lead, which is up from the 27films in 2018 and 13 films in 2007.

Country music artists are often taught young to not have any opinions, especially ones that could be deemed controversial. To do that is to risk losing a portion of your fanbase.

Do you feel like work is consuming your life and when you come back home your still thinking about it? Does it keep you up at night or do you find yourself boring your friends to tears about office politics when they just want to chat about Love Island? Well it seems you’re not alone. A study of 2,000 adults found that rising work pressures and smartphones that constantly buzz combined with a fast pace of life mean that many people find it difficult to “switch off”.

Barbie, the classic children's doll that has become a staple of American culture, is kicking off the new decade with a renewed push for more diverse and inclusive offerings. Mattel has now unveiled its Fashionistas 2020 collection to show off "a multi-dimensional view of beauty and fashion," according to .The new range of dolls includes one with vitiligo, a condition that causes the loss of skin pigment in blotches.

James Blake and Jameela Jamil spoke with Billboard on the red carpet at the 2020 Grammy Awards, where they discussed which changes they would like to see in the music industry, why they were moved by Taylor Swift’s recent Women in Music speech, and which artist James Blake would love to work with.After Taylor Swift gave an empowering speech at Billboard’s Women in Music event last month, where she accepted the Woman of the Decade award, James Blake tweeted about the importance of the pop star's

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A study by the Time’s Up Foundation and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has found that women and people of color are vastly underrepresented at film festivals worldwide.

Guns N' Roses are working on some new music, but they are grappling with all the new ways to consume music in 2020.In a new interview with Guitars.com, legendary guitarist Slash was chatting about his new Gibson guitar collection before delving into GNR updates. "There’s been no definitive answer on anything and I’ll just keep keep to that.

Taylor Swift was right when she said, "It was an end of a decade, but the start of an age" in her 2010 hit "Long Live."

"More than anything, it’s because of the nature of the industry right now"