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Metro Station (band)
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Metro Station is an American pop band that was formed in Los Angeles by Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso. In late 2006, the signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. The band is best known for the Top 10 Billboard hit single Shake It from the groups self-titled debut album, in 2010, tension between Cyrus and Musso caused the band to go on hiatus. In 2011 the band returned, however it was announced that Cyrus was no longer a part of the group, an EP entitled Middle of the Night was released in 2013, which was led by the single Every Time I Touch You. In 2014 Cyrus returned to the band and a new single entitled Love & War was released, in 2015, the band released a second full-length album titled Savior. The band is described as a scene pop band due to the members sense of fashion. In 2006, Mason Musso and Trace Cyrus agreed to meet on the set of Hannah Montana, which starred Masons brother, Mitchel, sharing musical interests, they decided to form a band. Shortly thereafter, Cyrus recruited Blake Healy from Synthetic Joy as a keyboardist, synthesist, Cyrus remained the singer and the lead guitarist. Musso became the main singer and rhythm guitarist. Metro Station soon gained the attention of drummer Anthony Improgo, who was added as the drummer after the group released the song Seventeen Forever on its MySpace Music website. Musso sang lead on the track, The groups popularity on MySpace Music grew, Metro Station was discovered by an intern working for Columbia Records Walking Eye program, while looking through the MySpace Music charts, and the group was signed shortly thereafter. In the July 2007 issue of music magazine Alternative Press, Metro Station was listed as one of the 22 Best Underground Bands, the band released its self-titled debut studio album in September 2007. The album had two singles released, Kelsey and Control, although both singles failed to make the charts, with higher sales of the album both became more popular. It wasnt until mid-2008, after the release of the single Shake It, that the received a significant amount of commercial exposure. The song peaked at No.3 on Hot Digital Songs, No.9 in the Pop 100, No.10 in the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No.20 in the Hot Dance Airplay chart. The success of the song also affected sales, the album charting nine months later in 2008 at No.39 in the Billboard 200, No.1 Top Electronic Albums. In 2009 Metro Station toured in the Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux which with Hey Monday, All Time Low, Cobra Starship, the band also contributed a song to the Alice In Wonderland soundtrack Almost Alice titled Wheres My Angel. Musso retained his connections to the Metro Station name, while Cyrus began a project he named Ashland High
Metro Station (band)
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Metro Station at a meet and greet during the 2015
Warped Tour;
Mason Musso (left) and
Trace Cyrus (right).
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Metro Station performing in Michigan in 2007
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Rockwall, Texas
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Rockwall is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas and part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It is the county seat of Rockwall County, the population was 37,490 at the 2010 census. The name Rockwall is derived from a naturally jointed geological formation, more recently, the Rockwall region was occupied by Caddo Indians. Creek Indians moved to the area in the early 19th century, in 1851, as the first Anglo-American settlers moved to the area, they started to dig wells. During the digging, they found large underground rock walls that were believed to be manmade. Later study of the features by geologists and archaeologists found them to be jointed. The town was established April 17,1854 and named after these natural rock walls, while originally part of Kaufman County, in 1873, Rockwall County was formed with Rockwall being the county seat. Rockwall is located at 32°55′12″N 96°27′35″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.6 square miles, of which,22.3 square miles of it is land and 0.4 square miles of it is water. Rockwall is on the east shore of Lake Ray Hubbard and it is on State Highways 205 &740, north of Interstate 30. The highest point in Rockwall is at 591 ft. at the First Baptist Church, the climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Rockwall has a subtropical climate. As of the census of 2000, there were 17,976 people,6,605 households, the population density was 806.9 people per square mile. There were 7,089 housing units at a density of 318.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 91. 35% White,3. 00% African American,0. 38% Native American,1. 39% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,2. 57% from other races, and 1. 28% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 44% of the population,18. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the family size was 3.06. In the city, the population was out with 27. 5% under the age of 18,6. 9% from 18 to 24,30. 9% from 25 to 44,25. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 95.5 males
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Rusk Street in Rockwall
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Location of Rockwall in
Rockwall County,
Texas
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The Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall
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Burbank, California
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Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States,12 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The population at the 2010 census was 103,340, Entertainment, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, NBC, Cartoon Network Studios with the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games. The city is home to Bob Hope Airport. Burbank consists of two areas, a downtown/foothill section, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. Burbank is the easternmost city in the San Fernando Valley, Burbanks neighbor, Glendale, is the westernmost city in the San Gabriel Valley. The city was referred to as Beautiful Downtown Burbank on Laugh-In, the city was named after David Burbank, a New Hampshire-born dentist and entrepreneur who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. Historically, this area was the scene of a skirmish which resulted in the unseating of the Spanish Governor of California. Remnants of the battle reportedly were found many years later in the vicinity of Warner Bros. Studio when residents dug up cannonballs, by 1876, the San Fernando Valley became the largest wheat-raising area in Los Angeles County. But the droughts of the 1860s and 1870s underlined the need for water supplies. A professionally trained dentist, Dr. Burbank began his career in Waterville and he joined the great migration westward in the early 1850s and, by 1853 was living in San Francisco. At the time the American Civil War broke out he was well established in his profession as a dentist in Pueblo de Los Angeles. In 1867, he purchased Rancho La Providencia from David W. Alexander and Francis Mellus, Dr. Burbanks property reached nearly 9,200 acres at a cost of $9,000. Dr. Burbank wouldnt acquire full titles to both properties until after a decision known as the Great Partition was made in 1871 dissolving the Rancho San Rafael. Dr. Burbank also later owned the Burbank Theatre, which opened on November 27,1893, though the theater was intended to be an opera house, instead it staged plays and became known nationally. The theatre featured famous actors of the time including Fay Bainter and Marjorie Rambeau, when the area that became Burbank was settled in the 1870s and 1880s, the streets were aligned along what is now Olive Avenue, the road to the Cahuenga Pass and downtown Los Angeles. These were largely the roads the Indians traveled and the settlers took their produce down to Los Angeles to sell. At the time, the primary long-distance transportation methods available to San Fernando Valley residents were stagecoach, stagecoaching between Los Angeles and San Francisco through the Valley began in 1858
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Looking northwest over Burbank from
Griffith Park.
Burbank, California
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Olive Ave., Burbank, 1889
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Dr. David S. Burbank
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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One of the first popular alternative rock bands,
R.E.M. relied on
college-radio airplay, constant touring, and a grassroots fanbase to break into the musical mainstream.
Alternative rock
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Kim Gordon and
Thurston Moore of
Sonic Youth
Alternative rock
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Robert Smith of
The Cure rejects the genre labels like alternative,
gothic rock, and
college rock applied to his band. He has said, "Every time we went to America we had a different tag... I can't remember when we officially became 'alt-rock'".
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Kurt Cobain (foreground) and
Krist Novoselic with
Nirvana live at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Synth-pop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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The
Prophet-5, one of the first
polyphonic synthesizers. It was widely used in 1980s synthpop, along with the
Roland Jupiter and
Yamaha DX7.
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Kraftwerk, one of the major influences on synthpop, in 1976.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra in 2008.
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Gary Numan performing in 1980
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Electropop
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Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound. The genre has seen a revival of popularity and influence since the 2000s, the media in 2009 ran articles proclaiming a new era of different electropop stars and indeed, saw a rise in popularity of several electropop artists. In the Sound of 2009 poll of 130 music experts conducted for the BBC, lady Gaga had major commercial success since 2008 with her debut album The Fame. Music writer Simon Reynolds noted that Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, the second album by British singer Lily Allen released in 2009 called Its Not Me, Its You is largely electropop as opposed to her first ska album. Other female electropop acts that emerged were Ladyhawke, Kesha, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Elly Jackson of La Roux and Perfume. The Korean pop music scene has become dominated and influenced by electropop, particularly with boy bands and girl groups such as Super Junior, SHINee, F. Male acts that have emerged included British writer and producer Taio Cruz, who charted well in the U. S. along with one-man act Owl City, who had a U. S. number-one single, DJ Kaskade, and LMFAO. Singer Michael Angelakos of the Passion Pit said in a 2009 interview that while playing electropop was not his intention, so everything weve been put on to is electronic in nature. Music Projects with Propellerhead Reason, Grooves, Beats and Styles from Trip Hop to Techno
Electropop
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Kesha is considered one of the most successful American female electropop artists of the early 2010s
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
Pop music
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as
the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance)
Pop music
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According to several sources,
MTV helped give rise to
pop stars such as
Michael Jackson and
Madonna; and Jackson and Madonna helped make MTV.
Pop music
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Trace Cyrus
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Trace Dempsey Cyrus is an American musician. The son of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and brother of recording artist Miley Cyrus, he is the backing vocalist and he left the band in 2010 but returned in 2014. In 2010, he began providing vocals and guitar in the pop rock band Ashland HIGH and he also owns the clothing company From Backseats to Bedrooms. Cyrus was born in Ashland, Kentucky as Neil Timothy Helson and his mother is Leticia Tish Cyrus. His biological father is Baxter Neal Helson, but he was adopted by Billy Ray Cyrus, upon his adoption, his name was legally changed to Trace Dempsey Cyrus. Cyrus spent his school holidays touring and performing with Billy Ray and he has a younger sister, Miley, who starred in the Disney Channel original television series Hannah Montana. In an interview with MTV, he discussed recording with Miley, Actually, I cant say much about it right now, but we will be collaborating. Cyrus has many tattoos on his arms and chest, including the words stay gold tattooed on his knuckles, in 2006, he worked at a shopping mall in Burbank, California and dropped out of La Cañada High School. In 2006, Cyrus co-wrote a song called Country Music Has the Blues on Billy Rays 2006 album Wanna Be Your Joe, the song features guest appearances by Loretta Lynn and George Jones. Cyrus was a guitarist and vocalist in the pop rock band Metro Station and he started the band with Mason Musso in early 2006 when their mothers set them up to do a jam together, since Mussos brother Mitchel is a Hannah Montana cast member. Columbia Records signed the band after an intern at the label saw their MySpace page. He appeared with Musso on MTVs Total Request Live on June 9,2008 and their band along with The Maine were the two special guest acts on the 2008 Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour, co-headlined by Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte. Metro Station parted ways in early 2010, in 2008, he featured in a song called Hovering on Mileys album, Breakout in the Deluxe Edition. Also in 2008, he appeared in the video for the song Somebody Said a Prayer for the lead single for Billy Rays album. In 2010, he was featured in the song, Alive for Billy Rays band, in early 2010, Cyrus formed a pop band called Ashland HIGH. Cyrus provided vocals and guitar on a single entitled French Kiss, Ashland HIGH has released demos of songs titled Break It Down and Pretty Girls on the bands MySpace page. As of 2013, Ashland HIGH has released two albums, Geronimo and Drugstore Cowboy, in August 2014, Cyrus returned as a member of Metro Station with the band releasing a single titled Love & War. The band has released a second studio album titled Savior
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Trace Cyrus
Trace Cyrus
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Cyrus performing in Chicago in 2008
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Cyrus (right) with
Mason Musso in 2015 in
Hartford, Connecticut at
Warped Tour
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Mitchel Musso
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He was the host of Disney Channels PrankStars. In some of his works, he voiced DJ in the computer animated/motion capture film, Monster House. Mussos self-titled debut album was released on June 2,2009 on Walt Disney Records, the album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200. Musso was born in Garland, Texas, the son of Katherine and Samuel Musso and he is of Italian and English ancestry. He has two brothers – Mason Musso, who sings vocals in the band Metro Station with Miley Cyrus brother Trace, and Marc Musso. In 2003, Mitchel made his Hollywood film debut in Secondhand Lions, before Musso was cast in Secondhand Lions, he had been in several films beforehand, Am I Cursed. as Richie and The Keyman as a Cub Scout, both in 2002. In addition to his role as Oliver Oken in Disney Channels Hannah Montana, Musso also voiced Jeremy Johnson in Phineas and Ferb and he appeared in the Disney Channel Games in 2006 on the Green Team, and appeared on the Red Team in 2007 and 2008. He also appeared in the TV movie Walker, Texas Ranger, Trial by Fire alongside Chuck Norris, on June 2,2008, Musso was a surprise guest at the Spotlight Awards at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. He presented awards to the Best Actor and Best Actress of the 2007–2008 theatrical year, in 2008 Musso, Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus all made family guest appearances in Metro Stations music video for Seventeen Forever. In early 2009, Musso was cast, alongside The Suite Life on Deck and House of Paynes Doc Shaw, the series began production in March 2010, following the production of the final season of Hannah Montana in which Musso will only be a guest. The series premiered on September 10,2010 and it was announced that Musso would be the host of Disney Channels latest hidden camera reality series, PrankStars, which premiered on July 15,2011. On December 12,2011, Disney XD renewed the series Pair of Kings for a third season, Musso did not return for the new season and, instead, he was replaced by a new character played by Adam Hicks. Musso sang a remake of the song Lean on Me for the Disney film, Snow Buddies, the music video is included on the DVD. Musso also sang the song If I Didnt Have You with Hannah Montana co-star Emily Osment for the DisneyMania 6 CD in 2008 and sang the song Stand Out for the Disneymania 7 CD in 2010. For their 2009 Disney Channel Original Movie, Hatching Pete, Musso teamed up with co-star Tiffany Thornton, from Sonny with a Chance, the two also worked on a music video for the song which was released to Disney Channel. Musso also recorded a song called The Girl Cant Help It for another Disney Channel Original Movie, Let it Go and The Girl Cant Help It was featured on the Disney compilation album, Disney Channel Playlist, which was released on June 23,2008. And sang Live like Kings on Disney XDs Pair of Kings on Disney Channel, also in 2009, Musso collaborated on the School House Rock song The 3 Rs, an educational song about recycling. In a studio effort, Musso released his debut album on June 2,2009
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Musso in 2010
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Mitchel Musso on April 20, 2011
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Hannah Montana
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Hannah Montana, also known as Hannah Montana Forever in its fourth and final season, is an American musical comedy television series created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry OBrien. It focuses on Miley Stewart, who is a teenager living a life as an average schoolgirl by day. The story follows the life of Stewart, her brother. The soundtrack albums Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana 2, Meet Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana 3, in 2007, the success of the series led to the Best of Both Worlds Tour, which visited North America. The following year, it was adapted into the 3D film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus, Best of Both Worlds Concert and its accompanying soundtrack. In 2009, the first feature film of the series, titled Hannah Montana, The Movie was released to commercial success, all seasons of the show have been distributed on DVD. The series received favorable reviews from critics, and has been recognized as a guilty pleasure by several media outlets. The shows instant success is credited with the launch of Cyruss career and her establishment as a teen idol. However, as she continued to develop an increasingly provocative image as the series progressed, in its series premiere, Hannah Montana who is first introduced as Miley Stewart, lives a double life as an average schoolgirl by day and a famous recording artist Hannah Montana by night. Mileys best friend Lilly Truscott discovered her secret while attending a Hannah Montana concert, later in the first season, Miley herself revealed her secret to their close friend Oliver Oken with the intention of ending his romantic interest in Hannah Montana. Lilly and Oliver assumed the aliases Lola Luftnagle and Mike Standley III when appearing with Hannah in order to protect Mileys secret, meanwhile, Jackson is employed at Ricos Surf Shop, where his child-aged boss Rico Suave often assigns him to complete embarrassing tasks. Miley, Lilly, and Oliver begin high school in the second season, Rico, who begins high school after skipping several grades, nearly discovers Mileys secret on several occasions. Later in the season, Miley admits to Jake Ryan, whom she disliked and later dated in the first season. However, their rekindled relationship ends after he struggles to adopt a normal, non-celebrity lifestyle. Meanwhile, Jackson continues to find himself in conflict with Rico, while Miley is off shooting a movie, Lilly and Oliver begin dating in the third season. Though Miley initially feels uncomfortable with the dynamic of their friendship. Miley herself begins dating Jake again, but develops feelings for her band mate Jesse, Jackson moves into his own apartment while attending college, while Lilly moves in with the Stewart family after her mother finds work in Atlanta, Georgia. In the two-part season finale, Robby buys a ranch in Malibu to bring Mileys horse Blue Jeans from Tennessee, while Jackson leaves his apartment, Oliver also embarks on a tour with the band that lived above Jacksons former apartment
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Miley Cyrus (pictured) served as the series' central focus during its four-season run.
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Hannah Montana
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Lilly Truscott (Emily Osment, left) and Oliver Oken (Mitchel Musso, right) portrayed Stewart's best friends throughout the series.
Hannah Montana
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Dallas
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Dallas is a major city in the U. S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the citys population ranks ninth in the U. S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The citys prominence arose from its importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat, however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816, the United States Census Bureaus estimate for the citys population increased to 1,300,092 as of July 1,2015. In 2016 DFW ascended to the one spot in the nation in year-over-year population growth. In 2014, the metropolitan economy surpassed Washington, D. C. to become the fifth largest in the U. S. with a 2014 real GDP over $504 billion, as such, the metropolitan areas economy is the 10th largest in the world. As of January 2017, the job count has increased to 3,558,200 jobs. The citys economy is based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research. The city is home to the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas, Dallas is the core of the largest metropolitan area in the South. Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were developed due to the construction of railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle. Later, France also claimed the area but never established much settlement, the area remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when Mexico declared independence from Spain, and the area was considered part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1836, the Republic of Texas, with majority Anglo-American settlers, in 1839, Warren Angus Ferris surveyed the area around present-day Dallas. John Neely Bryan established a permanent settlement near the Trinity River named Dallas in 1841, the origin of the name is uncertain. The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Dallas was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1856. With construction of railroads, Dallas became a business and trading center and it became an industrial city, attracting workers from Texas, the South and the Midwest. The Praetorian Building of 15 stories, built in 1909, was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi and it marked the prominence of Dallas as a city
Dallas
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Top to bottom, left to right:
Downtown Dallas skyline,
Old Red Museum,
NorthPark Center,
Dallas City Hall,
Dallas Museum of Art,
Winspear Opera House,
Perot Museum of Nature and Science,
State Fair of Texas at
Fair Park,
Dallas Union Station, the
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, and the
American Airlines Center
Dallas
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Elm Street at night, January 1942
Dallas
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President and Mrs.
Kennedy arrive at Dallas, November 22, 1963
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Santa Fe Terminal Complex on Commerce St, built in 1924.
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Texas
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Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Other major cities include Austin, the second most populous state capital in the U. S. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify its former status as an independent republic, and as a reminder of the states struggle for independence from Mexico. The Lone Star can be found on the Texan state flag, the origin of Texass name is from the word Tejas, which means friends in the Caddo language. Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault, although Texas is popularly associated with the U. S. southwestern deserts, less than 10 percent of Texas land area is desert. Most of the centers are located in areas of former prairies, grasslands, forests. Traveling from east to west, one can observe terrain that ranges from coastal swamps and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, the term six flags over Texas refers to several nations that have ruled over the territory. Spain was the first European country to claim the area of Texas, Mexico controlled the territory until 1836 when Texas won its independence, becoming an independent Republic. In 1845, Texas joined the United States as the 28th state, the states annexation set off a chain of events that caused the Mexican–American War in 1846. A slave state before the American Civil War, Texas declared its secession from the U. S. in early 1861, after the Civil War and the restoration of its representation in the federal government, Texas entered a long period of economic stagnation. One Texan industry that thrived after the Civil War was cattle, due to its long history as a center of the industry, Texas is associated with the image of the cowboy. The states economic fortunes changed in the early 20th century, when oil discoveries initiated a boom in the state. With strong investments in universities, Texas developed a diversified economy, as of 2010 it shares the top of the list of the most Fortune 500 companies with California at 57. With a growing base of industry, the leads in many industries, including agriculture, petrochemicals, energy, computers and electronics, aerospace. Texas has led the nation in export revenue since 2002 and has the second-highest gross state product. The name Texas, based on the Caddo word tejas meaning friends or allies, was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves, during Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas, La Provincia de Texas. Texas is the second largest U. S. state, behind Alaska, though 10 percent larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany or Japan, it ranks only 27th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 40th largest behind Chile, Texas is in the south central part of the United States of America. Three of its borders are defined by rivers, the Rio Grande forms a natural border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south
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Sam Rayburn Reservoir
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Big Bend National Park.
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List of Hannah Montana main characters
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This is a list of Hannah Montana main characters from the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana portrayed by the main cast. Characters are listed by order of appearance, Miley Ray Stewart is the teen main character of Hannah Montana. As her alter ego, Hannah Montana, she lives a double life as a famous pop star. One of the names for her alter ego was Alexis Texas. Eventually the writers decided to use the real first name of the star and her best friends are Lilly and Oliver. She tries to keep the fact that she is Hannah Montana a secret but has several people during the duration of the series, such as Lilly, Oliver, Sienna, Jake. Her main love interests are Jake and Jesse, along with occasional crushes and she is known to say Sweet niblets. She also has the best of both worlds and her rivals, when she is Miley, are Amber and Ashley. She is like any other girl, facing challenges, but endures it with the help of family and she has tons of wardrobe changes. Robby Ray Stewart is the father of Jackson and Miley Stewart. He is also Hannah Montanas manager, who was a country singer. As Mileys father, he is referred to as Hannahs father whenever they appear together publicly. Even though he does wear a mustache and a hat as a disguise. He takes pride in his hair, and his shampoo collection, whenever one of Hannahs song becomes a hit, instead of attributing it to the singer, he, jokingly, takes the credit himself. He is a loving and caring father, but knows when serious discipline is necessary, Jackson Rod Stewart is the older teenage brother of Miley Stewart and son of Robby Stewart. He is known for his goofy, lazy and disgusting habits, Jackson is a very regular character in Hannah Montana. In the episode He Could Be the One, Jackson does not take part in the actual story, Jackson also has a central role in the feature film Hannah Montana, The Movie. Despite portraying a teen, Jason Earles was in his twenties when he started the show
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Promotional photo of the Hannah Montana main characters from season one to three. From Left to right are Rico Suave (
Moises Arias), Jackson Stewart (
Jason Earles),
Robby Stewart (
Billy Ray Cyrus),
Miley Stewart as
Hannah Montana (
Miley Cyrus), Oliver Oken (
Mitchel Musso), Lilly Truscott (
Emily Osment)
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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Disney Channel's headquarters in
Burbank,
California as it appeared in the 2000s (the logo was later removed instead of being replaced with the 2002-era logo).
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Original logo used from April 18, 1983 to April 5, 1997; the wordmark (at bottom), based on The Walt Disney Company's 1986-2010 corporate logo, replaced a generic all-capital text logo in 1986. The "Mickey Mouse TV" served as the de facto primary logo, with the wordmark being used intermittently on-air.
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Hartford, Connecticut
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Hartford is the capital of the U. S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, as of the 2010 Census, Hartfords population was 124,775, making it Connecticuts third-largest city after the coastal cities of Bridgeport and New Haven. Census Bureau estimates since then have indicated Hartfords subsequent fall to fourth place statewide as a result of sustained growth in the coastal city of Stamford. Nicknamed the Insurance Capital of the World, Hartford houses many insurance company headquarters, founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the United States. In 1868, resident Mark Twain wrote, Of all the towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief. Following the American Civil War, Hartford was the richest city in the United States for several decades, today, Hartford is one of the poorest cities in the nation with 3 out of every 10 families living below the poverty line. In sharp contrast, the Hartford metropolitan area is ranked 32nd of 318 metropolitan areas in total economic production, various tribes, all part of the loose Algonquin confederation, lived in or around present-day Hartford. The area was referred to as Suckiaug, meaning Black Fertile River-Enhanced Earth, the first Europeans known to have explored the area were the Dutch, under Adriaen Block, who sailed up the Connecticut in 1614. Dutch fur traders from New Amsterdam returned in 1623 with a mission to establish a trading post, the original site was located on the south bank of the Park River in the present-day Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood. This fort was called Fort Hoop, or the House of Hope, in 1633, Jacob Van Curler formally bought the land around Fort Hoop from the Pequot chief for a small sum. It was home to perhaps a couple families and a few dozen soldiers, the area today is known as Dutch Point, and the name of the Dutch fort, House of Hope, is reflected in the name of Huyshope Avenue. The fort was abandoned by 1654, but its neighborhood in Hartford is still known as Dutch Point, the Dutch outpost, and the tiny contingent of Dutch soldiers that were stationed there, did little to check the English migration. The Dutch soon realized they were vastly outnumbered, the House of Hope remained an outpost, but it was steadily swallowed up by waves of English settlers. The English began to arrive 1637, settling upstream from Fort Hoop near the present-day Downtown, the settlement was originally called Newtown, but was changed to Hartford in 1637 in honor of Stones hometown of Hertford, England. Hooker also created the town of Windsor. The etymology of Hartford is the ford where harts cross, the Seal of the City of Hartford features a male deer, which in full maturity was referred to by the medieval hunting term hart. The fledgling colony along the Connecticut River had issues with the authority by which it was to be governed because it was outside of the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colonys charter. Historians suggest that Hookers conception of self-rule embodied in the Fundamental Orders went on to inspire the Connecticut Constitution, today, one of Connecticuts nicknames is the Constitution State
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Warped Tour
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The Warped Tour is a traveling rock festival that has toured the United States annually each summer since 1995. It is the largest traveling music festival in the United States, Warped Tour was conceived in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival, but in 1996 began focusing on punk rock music. Although it has continued to be known primarily as a rock festival. The band times and sets are found on an inflatable lineup, every year there is a BBQ Band. In exchange for the privilege of playing on the tour, the BBQ Band prepares the post-show barbecue held for the bands, past BBQ Bands have included Dropkick Murphys, Art of Shock and The Fabulous Rudies. Similarly, one band, Animo, has permitted for the past four years to play on the tour in exchange for working on the setup crew. The BBQ Band for the 2016 tour is the band Reckless Serenade, the tour started as a skate punk and third-wave ska tour, but later began to feature mostly pop punk and metalcore acts. It is set up early in the morning during the set up crews arrival, when heading into Canada, there is a bus that loads the supplies that heads into Canada while the other bus contains the equipment that stays in the U. S. until the next show. In 2013, Kevin Lyman decided to allow free admission to the Warped Tour. Parents have their own day care. It is called Reverse Day Care, grown-ups can spend the day waiting for their children in the Reverse Day Care tent. There is ample seating and often fans or cooling devices to keep the parents occupied during the festival, the Warped Tour was created in 1995 by Kevin Lyman, in production with the short lived Warp Magazine and Creative Artists Agency. The tour began June 21 at the Idaho Center in Boise, Idaho, the tour has always been held at outdoor venues though on a rare occasions that has not always been the case. In 1996, due to problems with the venue where the event was to be held,1996 was the first year for Vans as a sponsor and they have been the main sponsor ever since carrying their name in the title. In 1998, the tour went international, including venues in Australia, Japan, Europe, Canada, in 1999, the tour started off in New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii in the New Year. It then started up again in the United States for the northern hemisphere summer before ending up in Europe, the Vans Warped Tour has turned eco-friendly by using biodiesel for the production buses. In 2009, the two stages were condensed into one and bands were given 40-minute sets, as opposed to the traditional 30 minutes across the previous two stages. Despite this, the decided to bring back the two main stages concept with 35-minute sets instead for the 2012 tour and beyond
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The performance schedule for the August 10, 2010 stop in
Chula Vista, California, giving stages and set times for each act. Set times are determined on the day of the show and are posted for attendees on a large inflatable board.
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The
Alternative Press /Advent stage (left) and
Glamour Kills stage (right) on the 2010 tour, an example of the tour's side-by-side stage setup. Acts play alternating 30-minute set times on the two stages.
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Artist, record label, and sponsor tents occupy the central area of the tour stops, selling merchandise and holding autograph signings.
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Miley Cyrus
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Miley Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her father Billy Ray Cyrus also starred in the show and she released her second album Breakout and launched her film career as a voice actress in the animated film Bolt in 2008. Cyrus starred in the feature film Hannah Montana, The Movie, in 2010, she released her third album Cant Be Tamed, which stands as the lowest-selling record of her career, and starred in the coming-of-age film The Last Song. Cyrus focused on her career with several television and film appearances in 2011 and 2012. Her sexually explicit behavior generated widespread controversy while promoting her fourth album Bangerz, Cyrus independently-released fifth studio album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz deviated from her traditional pop style for more psychedelic experimentation. In 2016, she was a coach for the season of the singing competition series The Voice. With Bangerz, Cyrus achieved her third album on the U. S. Billboard 200. She has logged seven top 10 entries on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 with, See You Again,7 Things, The Climb, Cant Be Tamed, We Cant Stop and the chart-topping Wrecking Ball. Cyrus has earned awards and nominations, as Billboard ranked her as the fourth best-selling female artist of 2009. She was ranked number thirteen on Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2010 and she has been included on the Time 100 list of most influential people in 2008 and 2014. Destiny Hope Cyrus was born November 23,1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, to Leticia Jean Tish Cyrus, Cyrus was born with supraventricular tachycardia, a condition which causes an abnormal resting heart rate. She changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus, her middle name honors her grandfather, against the advice of her fathers record company, Cyruss parents secretly married on December 28,1993, a year after her birth. They had two children together, son Braison and daughter Noah. From previous relationships, her mother has two children, Trace and Brandi, while her father has a son named Christopher. Cyrus godmother is entertainer Dolly Parton, Cyrus grew up on a 500-acre farm in Franklin, and attended Heritage Elementary School. While working on Hannah Montana, she enrolled at Options for Youth Charter Schools, raised a Christian, she was baptized in a Southern Baptist church before moving to Hollywood in 2005. She attended church regularly while growing up and wore a purity ring, in 2001, when Cyrus was eight, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada while her father filmed the television series Doc. After Billy Ray took her to see a 2001 Mirvish production of Mamma Mia. at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Cyrus grabbed his arm and told him, This is what I want to do and she began taking singing and acting classes at the Armstrong Acting Studio in Toronto
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Cyrus performing at the 93.3 FLZ Jingle Ball, December 2013
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Cyrus in 2007
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Cyrus performing on the
Best of Both Worlds Tour
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Cyrus at the
2008 MTV Video Music Awards
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Myspace
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Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of March 2017, Myspace was ranked 3,178 by total Web traffic, Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and RockYou, among others. Despite an overall decline, in 2015 Myspace still had 50.6 million unique visitors and has a pool of nearly 1 billion active and inactive registered users. In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees, in June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million. In August 2003, several employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic the popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of Myspace was ready for launch, a complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan, who managed Chris DeWolfe, Josh Berman, Tom Anderson, the first Myspace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users, eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into Myspace, and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen who helped stabilize the Myspace platform when Brad Greenspan asked him to join the team. Despite over ten times the number of developers, Friendster, which was developed in JavaServer Pages, could not keep up with the speed of development of Myspace and cfm. The MySpace. com domain was owned by YourZ. com, Inc. intended until 2002 for use as an online data storage. By 2004, it was transitioned from a storage service to a social networking site. A friend, who worked in the data storage business. DeWolfe suggested they charge a fee for the basic Myspace service, Brad Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping Myspace free was necessary to make it a successful community. Myspace quickly gained popularity among teenage and young adult social groups, in February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook but DeWolfe rejected Zuckerbergs $75 million asking price
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Fox Interactive Media headquarters, 407 North Maple Drive,
Beverly Hills, California, where Myspace is also housed.
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Myspace LLC
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Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser,
Wendi Deng, and
Rupert Murdoch with Myspace co-founders Anderson and DeWolfe at the 2006
Oxfam /Myspace Rock for Darfur event
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Shake It (Metro Station song)
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Shake It is a song by the American pop band Metro Station, released as the third single from the groups 2007 self-titled debut studio album. The song impacted radio on April 1,2008 and it is the bands first charting single, peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Internationally, Shake It peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, Germany and New Zealand. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA on June 13,2008 and later Platinum that year, Shake It is a song written in the key of B major with a Mixolydian mode. The music video for the song Shake It was inspired by fans who created their own versions of the video,63 of which the band posted as a playlist on the bands YouTube account. The band has commented that the product was based on the cult film The Warriors. The video features the four members as they enter the Los Angeles Theatre. Once inside the theater, the band performs the song while various dancers compete against each other around the band members, cameos are made by online celebrity Jeffree Star and vocalist/guitarist Trace Cyrus ex-girlfriend Hanna Beth as audience members watching the dancers perform. The video ends with the entering the theatre and forcing everyone out. UK CD single Shake It -3,04 Shake It -7,15 Comin Around -2,40 U. S. Digital Remix single Shake It -6,25 Shake It -3,22 In the soundtrack of The House Bunny, on the evening of April 7,2008, Disney Channel had a bump that said, Shake It. It appeared on the season eight premiere of American Idol and it is also featured as a downloadable song for the Xbox 360 karaoke game, Lips. It was covered by a Portuguese boy band to be used in Sweet Strawberries season 7 soundtrack, the song was featured in 90210 when Annie and Ty were on a date in San Francisco. The song can be heard on a recent viral video of a young mans elaborately choreographed proposal to his girlfriend, the song was played during the opening of the episode When Cougars Attack of the show The Whole Truth, which first aired on October 27,2010. In the United Kingdom, the song is featured on a commercial for Schwarzkopfs Live Colour XXL Shake It Up Foam. The ad premiered on British commercial television networks in December 2011, in October 2013 this song accompanied the Fastrack Ads for watches in India. Lenarr The song can be heard in the Greys Anatomy spin-off show Private Practice in season 4, episode 12 as the first song Bizzy, music video for Shake It on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Shake It"
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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The Billboard logo
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Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
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Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas and Mia Wasikowska and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. She is the one who can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon-like creature that is controlled by the Red Queen. The film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and shot in the United Kingdom, at the 83rd Academy Awards, Alice in Wonderland won Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design, and was also nominated for Best Visual Effects. The film generated over $1 billion in sales and became the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time during its theatrical run. A sequel, titled Alice Through the Looking Glass, was released on May 27,2016, years after the original animated film, troubled by a strange recurring dream and mourning the loss of her father, 19-year-old Alice Kingsleigh attends a garden party at Lord Ascots estate. There she is confronted by a marriage proposal to Hamish Ascot. Unsure of how to proceed, she pursues a rabbit wearing a blue waistcoat and she emerges in a forest where she is greeted by the White Rabbit, the Dormouse, the Dodo, the Talking Flowers, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They argue over her identity as the right Alice who must slay the Red Queens Jabberwocky and restore the White Queen to power, as foretold by Absolem the Caterpillar, the group is then ambushed by the Bandersnatch and a group of playing-card soldiers led by the Knave of Hearts. Alice, Tweedledum and Tweedledee escape into the woods, the Knave steals the Caterpillars scroll. The Dormouse leaves the others behind with one of the Bandersnatchs eyes in her possession, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are then captured by the Red Queens Jubjub bird. The Knave informs the Red Queen that Alice threatens her reign, meanwhile, the Cheshire Cat guides Alice to the March Hare and the Hatter. The Hatter helps Alice avoid capture by allowing himself to be seized instead, later, Alice is found by Bayard the Bloodhound, but Alice insists upon helping the Hatter. At the Queens citadel, the Red Queen is unaware of Alices true identity and therefore welcomes her as a guest, Alice learns that the Vorpal Sword, the only weapon capable of killing the Jabberwock, is locked inside the den of the Bandersnatch. The Knave crudely attempts to seduce Alice, but she rebuffs him, Alice obtains the sword and befriends the Bandersnatch by returning its eye. She then escapes on the back of the grateful Bandersnatch and delivers the sword to the White Queen, the Cheshire Cat saves the Hatter from the executioner, and the Hatter calls for rebellion against the Red Queen. The rebellion is put down by the Jubjub bird, but the resistance flees to the White Queens castle. Former caterpillar Absolem advises Alice to fight the Jabberwocky just before completing his transformation into a pupa, on the appointed day, the White and Red Queens gather their armies on a chessboard-like battlefield and send Alice and the Jabberwocky to decide the battle in single combat
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Theatrical release poster
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Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen. Bonham Carter's head was digitally increased to three times its original size in the film.
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Mad T Party at California Adventure, showing the Dormouse on guitar, Cheshire Cat on drums, and Alice as lead singer.
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. As of February 2017, there are more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, as of April 2017, the website is ranked as the second most popular site in the world by Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis company. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day
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From left to right:
Chad Hurley,
Steve Chen, and
Jawed Karim
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Screenshot of YouTube's homepage
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YouTube's headquarters as of 2010 in
San Bruno, California.
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SoundCloud
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SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. SoundClouds content is split between music and other audio. Founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss are the executive officer and chief technical officer. SoundCloud was established in Berlin in August 2008 by Swedish sound designer Ljung, in a 2009 interview with Wired, Ljung said, In April 2009, SoundCloud received €2.5 million Series A funding from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. By May 2010, SoundCloud announced it had one million users, in January 2011, it was confirmed that SoundCloud had raised a US$10 million Series B funding round from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. On 15 June 2011, SoundCloud announced they had five million registered users, on 23 January 2012, SoundCloud announced on their blog that they had 10 million registered users. By May 2012,15 million users were announced by the company at a conference held in San Francisco. The usage level for the site was growing by 1.5 million users per month at this stage, the new API was released to the public in December 2012. The response from users was mixed, and many expressed dissatisfaction with the change, SoundCloud received over 60,000 comments regarding the new layout by 10 December 2012. Also in December 2012, the data showed that SoundCloud was reaching 180 million people per month—8 percent of the global Internet—while users were uploading 10 hours of content every minute. In March 2013, Twitter announced SoundCloud as a third-party music partner, alongside iTunes, however, the initiative never eventuated, SoundClouds inability to load licensed music—due to the absence of arrangements with the major music labels—was cited as a major reason. SoundCloud announced in January 2014 that it had commenced negotiations with the music companies. The announcement was publicised after a round of funding in which US$60 million was raised, the additional finances were suggested as the reason for the plan, as finalizing such deals is a costly process. In March 2014, SoundCloud was reportedly in a round of talks with major music labels about licensing after the January negotiations did not amount to anything substantial. However, the outcome of the talks was not forthcoming in any media sources, later in May, the media reported that Twitter had regained interest in SoundCloud and was considering acquiring the platform for around US$2 billion. The next after the publicity of the deal surfaced, the prospect was no longer an active consideration, on 28 September 2016, Spotify announced that it was in talks to buy SoundCloud. On 8 December 2016, Spotify was reported to have abandoned its acquisition plans, other startups that have crossed such a threshold include Spotify and Uber. At this time, SoundCloud claimed that 175 million unique listeners used the site each month, although SoundCloud did not have paid subscriptions for ad-free streaming, they had planned to launch one in 2015
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SoundCloud
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Savior (album)
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Savior is the second full-length album by American synthpop band Metro Station. It was released independently on June 30,2015 and it is the bands first full-length album since its debut self-titled album, which had been released eight years prior. The band promoted the album while on the 2015 Warped Tour, all tracks written by Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso
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Savior
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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A blueprint sketch, c. 2006, by
Jack Dorsey, envisioning an
SMS -based
social network.
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Twitter's homepage as of August 2015 (only in select countries)
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Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and the chairman of Twitter, in 2009
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Twitter's San Francisco, California headquarters, as seen from a corner on Market Street
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Metro Station (album)
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Metro Station is the eponymously titled debut length album by pop band Metro Station. The album was released on September 18,2007 under Columbia/Red Ink, four singles were released from the album, Shake It and Seventeen Forever charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at #189 on the U. S. Billboard 200, the single Shake It was certified Platinum in 2008. Since its release, Metro Station has sold approximately 400,000 copies in the United States, the album was released in the UK on March 30,2009. The version of the released in the UK contains 2 exclusive bonus tracks including a brand new track. The first UK single, Shake It, was released a week before, all tracks written by Metro Station, except True to Me by Metro Station, Sam Hollander and Dave Katz. Trace Cyrus – Guitar, Vocals Mason Musso – Vocals, Guitar Blake Healy – Synthesizer, Beats Anthony Improgo – Drums
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Kelsey (song)
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Kelsey is a single by the group Metro Station released in September 2007 from their first album, Metro Station. It was re-released on March 17,2009, after the success of Shake It, the song was the bands third UK single, released on December 14,2009, as a double A-side with a cover version of Last Christmas. The song was produced by Justin Pierre and Josh Cain from the band Motion City Soundtrack, Pierre also sings backing vocals on the song. The song was written about Pierres friend Kelsey Siemens, the music video has all of the band members playing the song in split-screen. The band re-shot the video in May 2009 and made a new music video which was released on Teen Nick on October 2,2009. The video featured actress, Aimee Teegarden, music video for Kelsey on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Kelsey"
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Seventeen Forever
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Seventeen Forever is a song by the American pop band Metro Station, released as the fourth and final single overrall from the groups 2007 self-titled debut studio album. The single was released on December 13,2008, and has charted on three major Billboard charts, first week, the song debuted at number 53 on the Australian Aria Charts, and has peaked at number 43. Magazine that this song is wanting to be in a relationship with a girl who’s underage so bad. The song was released as the bands second UK single on July 13,2009 and has so far peaked at number 89, on December 5,2008 the music video was released on MTV and has premiered in Canada through the Muchmusic and the MuchAxs video streaming website. The video is shot at night with the band performing at a carnival and it includes cameos from Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Mitchel Musso
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"Seventeen Forever"
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Last Christmas
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Last Christmas is a song by English pop duo Wham. Released on Epic Records in 1984, on a double A-side with Everything She Wants, originally written and produced by George Michael, it has been covered by many artists since its original release. Wham. and the other big act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. However, the Band Aid project helmed by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, Wham. s offering peaked at number two for much of the period, although Georges involvement in Band Aid meant that Wham. still had an input. Subsequently donated all of their Last Christmas/Everything She Wants royalties to the Ethiopian famine. The song gradually sold in Japan and became the single that did not reach that countrys top 10 chart, selling more than 600,000 copies. In 2009, the song re-entered the Spanish Lista de Canciones at number 9, in 2013, it was the most streamed single on Christmas Day according to Spotify. In Germany, the song is the most successful Christmas single of all time, having spent 124 weeks on the German Singles Chart and it has charted every year since 1997. In January 2008, the fell from number 4 to number 64 there. In the Netherlands, the song never reached number one, peaking at number 2 in January 1985, in the Dutch Singles Top 100, the song has now entered on 16 different occasions, including every year since 2006. Its highest position after 1984 was number 5, in the Dutch Mega Top 50, the song re-appeared in 1997,2000,2007,2008, and 2013. In the United States, the song has also re-entered the Billboard Holiday Songs Chart on a regular basis, the song debuted at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the chart dated January 7,2017. It becomes clear early on that the character of Ridgeleys girlfriend was previously in a relationship with Michael, and she can easily be spotted throughout the video by the fact that shes usually wearing red, but everyone else is wearing more muted colors. There is a flashback to Last Christmas showing Michaels character presenting her with a jewelled brooch. In the present time, Ridgeley is wearing the brooch, suggesting that the girl gave the gift to her new love after she. Interestingly, when the girl wears the brooch from Michaels character, it is right side up, on numerous occasions, Michael presents a thoughtful expression, suggesting his conflicting emotions. Her seeming indifference to Ridgeleys open displays of affection makes the viewer wonder if Ridgeleys heart is the next to be broken. However, at the end of the video, everyone leaves properly paired off so perhaps it is suggested that Michael has worked out his confusion and now realizes he is after all with the right girl
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"Last Christmas"
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Metro Station discography
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Metro Station is an American pop band that was formed in Los Angeles by Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso. In late 2006, the signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. The band is best known for the Top 10 Billboard hit single Shake It from the groups self-titled debut album, in 2010, tension between Cyrus and Musso caused the band to go on hiatus. In 2011 the band returned, however it was announced that Cyrus was no longer a part of the group, an EP entitled Middle of the Night was released in 2013, which was led by the single Every Time I Touch You. In 2014 Cyrus returned to the band and a new single entitled Love & War was released, in 2015, the band released a second full-length album titled Savior. The band is described as a scene pop band due to the members sense of fashion. In 2006, Mason Musso and Trace Cyrus agreed to meet on the set of Hannah Montana, which starred Masons brother, Mitchel, sharing musical interests, they decided to form a band. Shortly thereafter, Cyrus recruited Blake Healy from Synthetic Joy as a keyboardist, synthesist, Cyrus remained the singer and the lead guitarist. Musso became the main singer and rhythm guitarist. Metro Station soon gained the attention of drummer Anthony Improgo, who was added as the drummer after the group released the song Seventeen Forever on its MySpace Music website. Musso sang lead on the track, The groups popularity on MySpace Music grew, Metro Station was discovered by an intern working for Columbia Records Walking Eye program, while looking through the MySpace Music charts, and the group was signed shortly thereafter. In the July 2007 issue of music magazine Alternative Press, Metro Station was listed as one of the 22 Best Underground Bands, the band released its self-titled debut studio album in September 2007. The album had two singles released, Kelsey and Control, although both singles failed to make the charts, with higher sales of the album both became more popular. It wasnt until mid-2008, after the release of the single Shake It, that the received a significant amount of commercial exposure. The song peaked at No.3 on Hot Digital Songs, No.9 in the Pop 100, No.10 in the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No.20 in the Hot Dance Airplay chart. The success of the song also affected sales, the album charting nine months later in 2008 at No.39 in the Billboard 200, No.1 Top Electronic Albums. In 2009 Metro Station toured in the Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux which with Hey Monday, All Time Low, Cobra Starship, the band also contributed a song to the Alice In Wonderland soundtrack Almost Alice titled Wheres My Angel. Musso retained his connections to the Metro Station name, while Cyrus began a project he named Ashland High
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Metro Station at a meet and greet during the 2015
Warped Tour;
Mason Musso (left) and
Trace Cyrus (right).
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Metro Station performing in Michigan in 2007
