Success Ido Haar followed Samantha better known as Princess Shaw for a year to her knowledge for a documentary to show the daily life of You-tubers. Her ultimate goal was for her music to “be heard” and get her big break. Princess Shaw’s original songs are inspired by the hardships she has gone in her childhood where then she posts to YouTube. Little to Samantha’s knowledge at the time of the filming of the documentary a man named Kutiman in Israel was compiling a bunch of artists' music together to form something special. Princess was the vocals in this gathering and this video Kituman released later went viral. Through the success from the viral video Samantha goes to Israel then is shown to have gone straight back to her normal life when …show more content…
Princess showing her talent to essentially everyone caught the ear of the right person. Kutiman was able to hear her voice and get to know her by the videos she posted on YouTube. Ido Harr showing us her daily life, her struggles to understand who Princess is. Princess talks about getting rapped as a child and the ongoing struggles. A clip of her YouTube video rolled on how “she blames herself” and seeing this you can really feel her emotions. It is just her and the cellphone camera hearing the raspiness in her voice as each word seems to hurt coming from her mouth. Feeling more personal as she is talking straight to you just wanting to get something off her chest and talking to her followers as a way she can feel better. Connecting more to her YouTube clip than how the documentary touches on the same topic. The way the documentary shows Princess talking about being rape as a child seems less emotional. Having to ignore the camera as if it is not there not receiving eye contact which feel less real. Having eye contact in her YouTube videos catches the viewer into paying attention. Being in Israel Kutiman never meets with Princess he only had these videos to understand her emotions behind her …show more content…
More success today is gained from You-tubers as social media influencers or some taking their talent to act. Successful singers that have gained success of YouTube are Justin Bieber and Christina Grimmie with also the help of the Voice. YouTube still has few known success stories for inspiring musicians. Singing competition shows have increased over the years with the same goal to discover new voices and give them a record deal. Really thinking about it the winners of these competitions are supposed to essentially be the next new talented musician. While that is hardly ever the case most of them stay relevant for a year and then they disappear. Fifth Harmony won third place on the X-Factor and are more known than the winner of their season. This can show how difficult the music industry can be that only a select few can make really it. Harr shows examples of this through the whole film. Princess is excited and getting prepared for a performance at a night club she is shown in the audience dancing having a good time with a decent amount of people. While she was the last to go on stage no one was there everyone left the whole place completely empty with the exception of four people. Princess did not let the atmosphere affect her performance she sings extremely passionate. Following this performance with a clip talking