Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
The internet has made it easier than ever for wannabe celebrities to get their 15 minutes of fame. But what happens when those 15 minutes are up? Many musicians or performers with popular YouTube videos fail to turn their internet fame into just plain fame. But the singer Lana Del Rey has managed to go from being a YouTube star to topping the music charts with her number one album, Born to Die. Hear Amy and Jason talk about this up and coming musician.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jason: Did you see Lana Del Rey on Saturday Night Live?
Amy: Yeah, she sounded terrible.
Jason: It was terrible!
Amy: I know. It’s so funny, because she was such a sensation on YouTube.
Jason: Right. I mean, that’s this interesting side effect of this path to stardom.
Amy: Right, like, can a YouTube star live outside of YouTube?
Jason: It used to be that you would have to work your way up somehow, so you would play shows and release albums, and you would hone your craft. But now you can kind of become…you can literally become a sensation overnight.
Amy: Right.
Jason: And are you ready to play Saturday Night Live yet? Maybe not, Lana Del Rey.
Amy: It’s true, if you have very little experience playing in front of live audiences.
Jason: It fortunately doesn’t seem to have killed her career though.
Amy: Well good for her.
Jason: Yeah, her song is great, the “Video Games” song. She calls herself a gangsta Nancy Sinatra, and I can see that a little bit.
Amy: Yeah. I like the kind of ‘50s and ‘60s references.
Jason: It’s an interesting thing she has going on. So maybe it was just a bit of a reality check. It wasn’t a complete death sentence.
Amy: You know, she’s not the first person who ever had a bad show.
Jason: Just the biggest show of her career so far. But whatever.
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Discussion
Jason and Amy discuss the popular new musician, Lana Del Rey. She is a singer whose music is influenced by music of the 1950s and 1960s. Her song “Video Games” is blowing up.
Lana Del Rey first became famous when her YouTube videos became extremely popular. Recently, she performed on an American TV show. Her live performance wasn’t nearly as good as her music videos, which has made some people criticize her. But Jason and Amy don’t think it will ruin her career. She just needs to practice performing live.
What musicians do you like to watch on YouTube? Would you ever want to perform in front of a live audience?
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