A Rhetorical Analysis Of Same Love By Macklemore

The appeal he uses most often is pathos, it is found throughout the song. Macklemore uses a word that is very hurtful to homosexuals: “faggots" (Haggerty, Lewis, Lambert, 2102). He uses it to show how people inappropriately use the word, but it is a word that causes a lot of pain to some people. His word choice is effective in bringing out emotion as in the line, “plagued by pain in their heart.” The choice to use the word plague describes just how bad the pain is. When people hear the word plague, we think of a widespread disease that affects hundreds and causes worldwide scare. He is saying that this pain is what they have in their heart every day. By using pathos to appeal to the emotion of love in every chorus, “my love, she keeps me warm,” Macklemore successfully tugs at a listener’s heartstrings because most can relate to the feeling of love in some way or another. Another phrase that he uses that applies to pathos is “some would rather die than be who they are.” In today's society, the topic of suicide is extremely emotional, which is what this lyric refers to. Macklemore uses a great deal of pathos appeal to reach out to his listeners and get his argument across.

In this article, the speaker must be an expert in politics, ethnicity and the music industry. There is a linkage between the above fields hence the speaker must have had a superlative background on these issues. The audience targeted by this literature were seemingly music enthusiasts to be educated on understanding what Hip-Hop entails and hoped to achieve this as it was established. The subject was Hip-Hop as a music genre that was largely developed by African American men to express their plight on injustice and oppression. The principal issue was how Hip-Hop has been used as a form of resistance and need for deliverance of the African Americans.

Macklemore’s song, “Same Love,” with Ryan Lewis, featuring Mary Lambert, tells the younger generation about discrimination against gays, homophobia, and inequality. The song calls out people who want freedom, where our country came from, and what are religion says to show how if we don’t accept gays, there is a lot we can never have. Macklemore is disappointed with the way hip hop and rap talk about gay people without realizing how difficult they are making gay’s lives. It is also great when Macklemore practically asks religious people how exactly they do not support gay rights, and why they believe it is wrong because God is supposed to love everyone. Macklemore gives his honest opinion on how he feels everyone should be equal, and there are no “buts” or “ifs.” I stand by his opinion about love being love no matter what. Macklemore’s song, “Same Love,” he talks about societies false ideas of gays, the way the term “gay” is used in hip hop music, and that we are not equal until we allow gay rights with a huge change at heart.

However, while Macklemore supported the Black Lives Matter movement, he questioned whether "You speak about equality, but do you really mean it?/Are you marching for freedom, or when it 's convenient? (Woods, Jamila. White Privilege II. Macklemore. Ryan Lewis, 2016. Google Play Music. Web. 19 Nov. 2016.)" He wonders if he 's actually making an impact on improving the lives for blacks or if he 's just doing this to feel good about being white and a successful artist. One may be skeptical on why Macklemore supports the movement, but considering not all

The current year of 2016 has been a year of challenging political correctness. Ben Haggerty, also known as the hip hop artist Macklemore, wrote a song in early 2016 called “White Privilege II.” This song is based on a Black Lives Matter protest that Macklemore participated in in 2014. In the song Macklemore

He says, “no freedom ‘til we're equal, damn right i support it” (Macklemore). What this line means is that justice and freedom is only fair when everyone is equal. He supports everyone being equal. “Whatever god you believe in we come from the same strip away the fear underneath it's all the same love”(Macklemore). He is saying everyone is equal and should have liberty and freedom. Lastly he says, “its human rights for everyone, there is no difference.” (Macklemore). He believes everyone should be treated the same no matter what.

When you listen to most rap music a leitmotif of drug use and glorified alcohol consumption can be heard on most Hip-Hop artist’s albums. Macklemore is a self-proclaimed abuser of these vices. Unlike most he does not elevate these depravities but speaks of his struggles overcoming their drowning influence. In the song “Starting Over” he expresses the disgrace he feels when he relapses. Macklemore painfully illustrates this shame with the verse “Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is / I know what I gotta do and I can’t help it / One day at a time is what they tell us / Now I gotta find a way to tell them”(“Starting Over”). He explains that he knows what needs to be done to overcome this evil; nonetheless because of his dependence he has become lost, and is ashamed to say he has a problem. In his song “Neon Cathedral” he discusses how going to

In musical superstar Taylor Swift’s music video for her song “Blank Space,” she is portraying herself as the high maintenance and dramatic girlfriend that the media believes she is. The speaker of this text is the media’s perception of Taylor Swift and her message is about the disconnect between who Swift really is and who the media sees her as. I believe Swift has two purposes for this music video. One is for her character in the music video to warn her audience about the type of love that boys want, and the other for real life Taylor herself to poke holes into the media’s concept of her love life. The video is filled with satire and paradoxes to convince us that our idea of Taylor Swift is not an accurate opinion of her.

In 2016, Macklemore released a new song called “White Privilege II”. He knew that by releasing this song he would be criticized by many people both white and black but felt that the issue on racism had to be spoken up about. Topics that the song discusses are white supremacy as well as black lives matter movement. Previous to “White Privilege II” Macklemore had released “White Privilege” in 2005 but since he was not a well-known artist then the message now is more powerful. Due to the fact that Macklemore is white, he did not know what to do about racial discrimination.

Macklemore's "Growing Up" may seem like just another song, but in reality, it carefully exhibits his typical, unconventional style while encoding a special message for his child to be. The author has always seemed to back the Declaration of Independence philosophy that all men are created equal. For instance, at an early age, his mom encouraged the idea for him to be "supportive of difference". Being different soon brought on many trials and obstacles, that he would have to overcome in life. With him publicly entering rehab multiple times, Macklemore knew he had to "find out" who he was because he would soon be a dad.

In America’s society, equality has always been a reoccurring issue. All the way from early slavery and the Holocaust to discrimination toward African Americans, females, and now same-sex marriages. As much as our world focuses on becoming equal, each culture deals with it’s own differences. In Michael Jackson’s song, “Black or White” compared with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ song, “Same Love,” they each approach the same topic encompassing equality. Songs from completely two different generations but each song is concentrating on the important issues of their time, racial discrimination and same-sex relationships. Both of the artists have the same dreams on fairness and each song is just the start of how people started to change their

Does “hip hop” belong to the younger generation only? Well to me hip hop is most likely for the younger generation because elderly people don’t understand the music nowadays. Elderly people don’t like listening to rap and hip hop because nowadays its very disgusting and disrespectful. And the younger like music it because they most likely can relate to it and bounce music is real disrespectful thats why elderly don’t listen to it.

Non-normative images and videos are rare to come across, but the one that stands out to me the most is Macklemore’s Same Love music Video. The reason why select it, is because it is the first major rap song to go against what every other rap song talks about. In a day of age where people are judged for their opinions, Macklemore was standing up for his belief and made a music video arguing that it is all the same love. Explaining that love doesn’t have a definition, and just because they don’t fit into society’s definition, doesn’t make it okay to treat them less than human.

The strongest argumentative claim can be quite difficult when it comes to music. Music can be interpreted in many different ways and messages. The three songs that come to mind that have strong meanings are, “For What It’s Worth,” by Buffalo Springfield, “Get Up, Stand Up,” by Bob Marley, and “What’s Going On,” by Marvin Gaye. All three of these artists were performing back in the 60s that were trying to make a statement for the world. In this essay, all three songs will be analyzed by their messages to the world.

After research, I found out that Lewi used to live with his gay uncle and Macklemore was raised in Seattle where it’s a gay-friendly district. They both really know well about what homosexual is and how they are like. Especially for Macklemore, he was not sure about his sexuality until the third grade, when his mom told him that he was straight. Macklemore’s actual name is Ben and I love how Macklemore puts his and Lewis experience in the lyrics and share their