Arctic Monkeys - Blog task
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor: Blog tasks
Audience
1) What do we know about the Arctic Monkeys audience? Think demographics, psychographics and how they got into the band.
Mostly male audience around their late teenage years
2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor?
seeing the actual band perform the song creates a connection to the audience helping them recognise them immediately
3) Pick out three particular shots, scenes or moments in the video that would particularly appeal to Arctic Monkeys fans. Why did you choose those moments?
4) How did fans take a leading role in making Arctic Monkeys famous back in 2005?
5) How are fans positioned to respond to the band? What does Arctic Monkeys want fans to think about their video?
Industries
1) How did the Arctic Monkeys first achieve success and build up their fanbase?
utilizing a grassroots approach based on distributing free demo CDs at live gigs and leveraging early social media
2) Why was P2P file sharing and MySpace an unexpected aspect to Arctic Monkeys' early success?
As despite being early social media it helped spread their music content across early social media and thus make them a big name online eventually leading to their success outside of social media too
3) How does the rise of Arctic Monkeys differ from how BLACKPINK were formed and became famous?
Arctic Monkeys started of earlier and thus had more limited resources to work with whilst BLACKPINK gained early popularity due to the spread of korean cultural influence thus making them a big name very quickly
4) Who is Arctic Monkeys record label and how many copies did they sell of their debut album? Why did they choose an independent record label?
Arctic Monkeys are signed to the independent record label Domino Recording company. Their 2006 debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, sold 363,735 copies in its first week, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history at the time. They chose an independent label to maintain creativity
5) Looking at the wider music industry, has the internet been a positive or negative development for record companies and artists? Why?
Over the years due to social media upcoming artists were able to freely produce music helping them built a career thus it is because of social media that many beloved artist are able to do what they do and without it the music industry would be alot more different and more closed off to new music artists trying to join the industry
Grade 8/9 extension tasks
Read this excellent Guardian feature on the Arctic Monkeys on the 10th anniversary of I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. What key statistics can you take from the article concerning developments in the industry and the Arctic Monkeys' role in these changes?
Read this BBC News report from the time - documenting the records Arctic Monkeys broke.
Finally, read this short Guardian feature asking if Arctic Monkeys changed the music industry. What does the article suggest?
1) How did the Arctic Monkeys first achieve success and build up their fanbase?
utilizing a grassroots approach based on distributing free demo CDs at live gigs and leveraging early social media
2) Why was P2P file sharing and MySpace an unexpected aspect to Arctic Monkeys' early success?
As despite being early social media it helped spread their music content across early social media and thus make them a big name online eventually leading to their success outside of social media too
3) How does the rise of Arctic Monkeys differ from how BLACKPINK were formed and became famous?
Arctic Monkeys started of earlier and thus had more limited resources to work with whilst BLACKPINK gained early popularity due to the spread of korean cultural influence thus making them a big name very quickly
4) Who is Arctic Monkeys record label and how many copies did they sell of their debut album? Why did they choose an independent record label?
Arctic Monkeys are signed to the independent record label Domino Recording company. Their 2006 debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, sold 363,735 copies in its first week, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history at the time. They chose an independent label to maintain creativity
5) Looking at the wider music industry, has the internet been a positive or negative development for record companies and artists? Why?
Over the years due to social media upcoming artists were able to freely produce music helping them built a career thus it is because of social media that many beloved artist are able to do what they do and without it the music industry would be alot more different and more closed off to new music artists trying to join the industry
Grade 8/9 extension tasks
Read this excellent Guardian feature on the Arctic Monkeys on the 10th anniversary of I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. What key statistics can you take from the article concerning developments in the industry and the Arctic Monkeys' role in these changes?
Read this BBC News report from the time - documenting the records Arctic Monkeys broke.
Finally, read this short Guardian feature asking if Arctic Monkeys changed the music industry. What does the article suggest?
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