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I chose this assignment as gender within society has always been a huge area of interest for me. I find it thrilling to discuss how gender differences affect our daily lives without us even realising it. The world of popular music is no exception as we are hounded from the moment we wake until we return to sleep with music, all of which is underpinned with a myriad of social comments voiced by the whole production team, not all of which are even given consciously. Gender is a huge subject area to cover with many stereotypes and pre-conceptions, alongside a massive amount of diversity within the way that people enact and interpret gender and sexuality. For the grounding of my essay I have decided to focus mainly on ‘Atomic Kitten’ and ‘Slipknot’. I feel that these two groups make a great point of contrast as they are both current acts, prominent in our music charts. Both acts have a well known name and recognised commercial success, yet they are hugely removed from one another in musical style, performance and attitude. I am interpreting the title literally, in respect to it proposing that role play, image, and the gendered performance… are all crucial to success. Therefore, to disprove one aspect would invalidate the