Marc Anthony s Performance Of God Bless America - 1117 Words

At the 2013 MLB All Star game Marco Antonio Muà ±iz, who goes by the artistic name of Marc Anthony, sang God Bless America for the audience. The live performance found its way to YouTube and became accessible to those who were not there to watch the performance live or through television. This made it easier for the performance to receive more negative, racist, and discriminatory responses through social mediums, particularly twitter, and eventually became a controversial topic among news sources and media. In this essay, I will analyze responses to Marc Anthony’s performance of God Bless America published on Twitter and define what it truly means to be American. This incident was one of many incidents in the United States that incited controversy over whether or not a famous figure’s actions were truly American. Another incident involved Cuban-born baseball player Yoenis Cà ©spedes, when he spoke in Spanish during an interview after being handed the Derby trophy, as reported by the Huffington Post. In both cases, baseball fans took to twitter to express their anger, betrayal, and disgust over Muà ±iz and Cà ©spedes’ actions, which they deemed to be â€Å"un-American†. In order to understand the importance of the comments made on social made, we need to understand the intended message of the artifact. This artifact is the YouTube video, which is also the main medium for the message. Other media that will be addressed in this essay is twitter, Buzzfeed, and other common social media,