Putting Richard Dyer's theory into the music industry: Bella Thorne

Bella Thorne in 2021

Bella Thorne started off in Disney Channel's TV show "Shake it off" and as one of Disney's first artists at the age of 13. But later in life, after 3-4 years of being signed to Disney, went onto a different path in both music and acting career. She signed onto a record label, Hollywood Records. She then left and decided to create her own record label "Filthy fangs", announced at Coachella in April 2018, which was partnered with Epic/Sony.

She started by singing the theme tune of the shake it up show, and therefore started with music and singing in 2010. She also then starred as a dancer in the show builds her image as a triple threat, showing she has the stamina to both sing and be a dancer all the same. 

She is also a singer and songwriter for quite a few songs and a few artists, but some things in her life has caused her to have a few controversies with the public and even with her fans. Some recent controversial activities have been starting her own OnlyFans site, earning over $1 million in the first 24 hours of joining, and that is only an example of the controversies Bella Thorne has been involved in.

Singles and albums she has released and been apart of:

- "watch me" - 2010 (reached 86 on US billboard charts, made with Zendaya, her co star on shake it up)

- "shake it up: break it down" - 2011 (an album created by Disney with Bella Thorne and Zendaya as the singers)

- "TTYLXOX" - 2012 (reached 97 on US billboard charts)

- "Shake it up: live 2 dance" - 2012 (another Disney album)

- "fashion is my kryptonite - 2012 (made with Zendaya)

- "Made in Japan" - 2012 (an album made by Disney with Zendaya)

- "Contagious love" - 2013 (made with Zendaya)

- "Shake it up: I love dance" - 2013 (another album made by Disney)

- "call it whatever" - 2013 (debut album, different genres, cancelled on 2014)

- "call it whatever" - 2014 (single from album, number 47 then eventually number 10 on billboard hot dance club) 

- "Jersey" - 2014 (original EP) 

- "Burn so bright" - 2018 (lead single for the movie "Midnight sun", along with others for the soundtrack)

- "What do you see now" - 2022 (her debut studio album)

- "GOAT" - 2018

- "Bitch I'm Bella Thorne" - 2018

- "Pussy mine"

- "Lonely" - 2020 (also included a music video for this song)

- "SFB" - 2020 

- "Phantom" - 2021 (features Malina Moye)

- "Shake it" - 2021 (removed off of YouTube for "explicit content")

- "Up in flames" - 2021 (made with B3N, also made for the album "Time is up")

- "In You" - 2021 (made with Juicy J)

Some music videos: 

Fashion is my kryptonite:

Bitch I'm Bella Thorne:

As you can see, in her later works Bella Thorne became more explicit with her music and this is also reflected in her music videos also, especially after leaving Disney after having found it "too restricting" because she wished she could be more true to herself and her wants and desires, and was able to find herself once leaving. Bella started her new style with the song "call it whatever" after wanting to move away from the auto tuned pop that she was being forced to perpetuate by Disney, and she wanted it to be her own choice of what she released.

Some more of her controversies include her leaking her own nudes after a hacker threatened to do so, which received great support and love from her co star Zendaya:

But there were also some very upset reactions from mothers of children who used to watch Disney and saw her as a role model, as well as many other women looking down on her. These controversies however put her back into the spotlight, after not having been very actively popular, except for acting in the thriller movie "the babysitter", in the past few years before this happened in 2021. Bella Thorne also completely changed her look by 2019, changing from her noticeable ginger hair to green ombre and full green, and sexualised herself more by this point, which seems to be what she has wanted to do all along, which did not receive much praise from some Disney fans.