Kiss The Hype
Title: Kiss The Hype
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 764 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Kiss The Hype
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 764 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is hype? Hype is defined as promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind. It is used to lure the consumer to a certain product or an event of some kind. The competition for the consumer's attention is intense and even desperate at times. Throughout the 1970's, there was a vast machinery of hype surrounding the music industry. Some of what came out of it was original and imaginative, but some was deceptive and
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formula. In time, Kiss may one day be permanently enshrined as a theme park ride, a Las Vegas casino attraction, or some other modern era mass entertainment spectacle: which is what Kiss was all about in the first place.
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