Beyonce/ Marxism

It was difficult at first to think of how Beyonce fits into Marxism's view of Popular culture. Marxism was interested in what is happening within society when it comes to the working class producing objects for consumers. He feels like the working class are alienated form the dominate classes when it comes to income. Additonally, with Commidy Fethism the object is worth much more than what they end up selling it for. The money ends up spreading to the store in which the object is being shipped to and the employee who sell the object. However, very little of the money goes to the people who create the object and who shipps the object. Marx feels like that is a major problem. As far as Beyonce she course is incredibly rich and most of her income comes from touring. I found that when she toured with Alicia Keys and Missy Elliot her income was 19million dollars and she is worth 16.1million. Her last allbum called, Danergously
inLove sold over 1.4 million copies and her annual income is always over 250,000 dollars! The problem that Marx has is how much do the CD factories make with creating these blank CD's for artists to use? He feels like the working class who create these CD's in the factories are not being paid fairly. A lot of times society does not realsize that in order for things to work for themselves there is always someone that behind the operation. Further, Marx feels that Capitlaism is exploiting the factory workers and that they should know about the issue. Now with Beyonce she probably has no ideas how abblivious she is when it comes to the means of production. All that she is knows is that her producers help her make her allbums and she gets paid for singing. Other than selling CD's Beyonce also has a franchise selling, perfume and clothing. However, than again who makes the bottles for the perfume and how much are these people paid to construct a bottle? Society is cut of by knowing that part of information because it seems insignificant. Also, there is a shipping cost and of course these people are paid but money goes to everybody but the working class doen't get nearly as much as they should. As for the clothing there are people that make the fabric and construct what Beyonce wants are clothing designs to look like. The designer gets paid a lot but what about those that made the variety of fabrics do they get over looked? Everything within production is spread through the ruling class and Marx talks about how his definition of ideology expresses his meaning. In addition, over all he talks about how the economy controls the ideas of production and therefore, the top group exceeds the subordinate class. Futher, those that are helping with the Upper class such as Beyonce, they are going to do what ever they can to make sure she is paid what she wants. Lastly, this way of production has been going on for a long time now and it is now that I realize that the people who make these objects should recieve more recognition instead of being partically ignored.