Representation By Charley Presland

What is representation?

Representation is how an artist or band represent their social groups depending on the type of music genre they usually tend to work with. This could be anything from:

Rap-This is usually energetic and is used for the younger age.

Rock-The social groups for this genre is for depressed teenagers that need an understanding of how they are feeling but in lyric wise. This then allows them to hide how they feel.

Many other genres have social groups such as Country, Pop, House, Garage, Club, R&B ect.

This usually depends on the way the social groups are and how they like to represent themselves.

Will Smith

Will Smith is an Actor turned singer. He is most famous for being in the popular sit-com The Fresh Prince of Bel-are (September 10th, 1990-May 20th, 1996).

Smiths rapping career had started in the 1980’s. However, Will avoided tax payment and eventually went bankrupt. That was when the Fresh Prince of Bel-air took him on.

During that time, Will eventually got his rapping career soaring. He done over 42 songs since 1997. This was able to properly start of Smiths career as his dream had once down with himself and Jazzy-J Jeff within the 80’s.

Wild, Wild West

“Wild Wild West” is the title of a hip hop song co-written by Will Smith as the theme song for Smith's film of the same name. The song also appears on Smith's 1999 album, Willenium. Will Smith's 1999 release was recorded specifically for Smith's planned summer blockbuster movie, Wild Wild West. Smith's song became a number-one pop hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and its extended music video, directed by Paul Hunter, was a hit on MTV. Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" single samples Stevie Wonder's song "I Wish", with parts of the chorus from Kool Moe Dee's song of the same name as well. Kool Moe Dee re-performs that chorus for the song, with additional guest vocals from R&B group Dru Hill. The song won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song. This song also appeared in the Wii console game Just Dance 4.

Steam punk

During the song feature of Wild, Wild west, steam punk was used to symbolize machinery being used back in the Western culture.

With it being used in Will smith’s video, it is a vital part as steam punk is usually used in the stereotypical cowboy movies.

Cowboys

With the Cowboys being very commonly thought about when we think about the West, it is a very classical way on how to represent the ‘Wild West’ theme.