Selena Gomez: Analyse af AMA tale og berømmelsens pris

Selena Gomez is one of the most successful singers in the world, at AMA’s in 2016 she did one of her life probably biggest speeches, and this one is differently one she will be known for in a long time because she opened up to the world about her step back from the spotlight, and took the chance at the stage to tell the world about one of her most terrifying and hardest experience of the life. “I had to stop, because I had everything, and I was absolutely broken inside.”(quote from the video). She gains to break the tabu about having depression, and these words can inspire other people to break the tabu and talk about the hard things in life. At the same time, she bought up a message about not showing off bodies on Instagram but instead showing what’s inside. “I don’t wanna see your bodies on Instagram, I wanna see what’s in here.” (quote from the video). With these words, she refers to all these pictures of people’s skinny bodies on Instagram, which makes many others feel wrong about themselves and their bodies.

The article is written by Rob Haskell and he gains to get a timeline of Selena Gomez’s ups and downs through her famous life. He starts the article with her coming over to a cooking evening with familiy’s recipes. “We’ve decided that tonight’s dinner will be a sort of tribute to the after-church Sunday barbecues she remembers from her Texan childhood.” (p. 1 l. 2-3). And then he brings us the conversation between Selena and him. He starts the article about her and the song “The Heart Wants What It Wants”. “Gomez traces her shift toward the unfiltered back to a song she released in 2014 called “The Heart Wants What It Wants,” a ballad about loving a guy she knows is bad news.”(p. 1 l. 21-23). He mentions this song because it is an example of that she has always been honest with her fans about how she feels. Then he has a conversation with Selena about her depression, anxiety, and stress while she was on the Revival World Tour. She opens up about the whole experience. From the start on tour and to the end then she’s doing a lot better after being at a psychiatric facility in Tennessee. We also get to know her past while she was on Disney Channel and started her career in LA.