Female-Fronted Rock Group Topic Analysis

Pathos was represented in the music video through the lyrics of the song. Singing over and over again the hope of an alternative to the so called bump in the night. This can be found in verse two of the song where Michael sings: “You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination.” Leading me to believe that these hopes were the same hopes he held on to during his own eerie times. Therefore, singing and displaying his own personal accounts, shows an appeal to the emotions of the audience and gains the credibility of the crowd of

In each of these videos, a ‘brutal' style of logos rhetoric is used to sarcastically trounce what we, as a nation of

Music is part of everyday life and serves as the center of many cultures across the world. Music brings out the best parts of a movie, a car ride, or even a special event. The purpose of music varies from artist to artist and different cultures. Every piece of music carries a unique message, but a song, in particular, carries meaning. “Runaway Love” by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige, exploits the struggles of young girls by using rhetorical techniques, such as pathos, ethos, logos, tone, and visual rhetoric throughout the music video to raise national awareness about youth runaways.

The most obvious rhetorical device present in the video is pathos. Pathos is an appeal to the sadness or emotions of the audience. The video maintains a somber or morbid tone from start to finish. That along with being filmed in black and white pressures the audience into feeling depressed. Watching the gang destroy the main character’s house really makes the audience fell very sympathetic.

Director Sut Jhally, in his documentary film, “Dreamworlds 3: Desire, sex, and power in music videos”, analyzes the issue of how women are portrayed in the music world. Jhally, in his film argues how music and media has become a proud industry when it comes to advertising women, all for the benefit of popularity and record sales. Jhally believes these videos both inform and misinform our culture about our dominant attitudes regarding femininity masculinity, sexuality and race. He uses an empathetic tone in order to appeal to pathos, the feelings and experiences in women when he presents video clips that are somewhat offensive to watch as proof that women have become a common necessity shown in music videos. Often presented as being sexually aggressive and submissive, being objectified by men. He also intentionally wants to try to stir up emotions as he introduces song lyrics of women being called inappropriate names and images of women being fondled by men throughout the film. Sometimes, aggressively without consent.

Intro: Like various art forms such as film, television, and literature allows artists to express their own sense of identity, that being nationality, race, class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. In this case, Queen uses music to illustrate the themes of gender and sexuality through their music video I Want to Break Free (1983). This essay will attempt to discuss how Queen’s music video, I Want to Break Free, explores queerness in relation to queer theory. Firstly, I will introduce the ideas and arguments of queer theory through Gilbert Herdt article Same Sex Different Cultures (1997). I will then discuss Queen’s portrayal of drag within the music video and how it can be seen as queer rather than heterosexual. Lastly, I will argue that

While ethos plays a large role in the appeal of the video, pathos plays a role equally as large. The pathological appeal in the music video is present from start to finish. The video opens with a background soundtrack of an upbeat rap tune. The tune is catchy and grabs the viewer’s attention immediately. Will Smith compliments the catchy beat by rapping an energetic rap. The rap itself demands for viewers’ attention because it appeals to their taste in music.

Rhetoric is all around us and whether we realize it or not, we are exposed to it all the time. We can find rhetoric in all forms of media from Movies to TV shows from newspaper articles to social media. One piece of media that contains rhetoric is music, more specifically Taylor Swift’s 2012 album Red. Red presents several rhetorical situations including commentary on relationships.

Music videos are often seen as the parts of the song’s story that an artist has trouble putting into words. Sometimes these details are unnoticeable at first glance, while some are essential to giving us vital information on what the song is actually about. Michael Jackson’s famous “Thriller” music video is often viewed as a Halloween binge watching classic, but judging by both the visual and audio components, it may be more than just a crowd of dancing zombies. There are quite a few moments throughout the video that can easily be seen as symbolisms of abuse, stalking, and rape/sex. By viewing the Thriller music video with this thought in mind, I hope to help you see the true evil lurking in the dark.

When one thinks of rock-n-roll music many images come to mind. In the 50’s, pop culture was inundated with rebellious, teen-aged rockers for the first time. They wiggled and crooned their way through songs like, “You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog,” and America, or at least the youth of America, loved them for the effort. The 60’s brought the British invasion and mop-topped foreigners belted out the frustration of the counter culture with songs like, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.” The 70’s brought blood spitting freaks who screamed anthems such as, “I Wanna’ Rock-n-Roll All Night,” for crowds of stadium rock devotees. In the 80’s big hair and spandex ruled, and through their make-up glam-metal bands pouted songs like, “Don’t Need Nothin’ but a Good Time,” as an expression of their rebellion against the uptight Reagan era. The 90’s entered with flannel-wearing grunge acts but ended with a unique blend of traditional rock, hip-hop, and strangely, country. Songs like; “I Don’t Want No Scrub” proved that some things never change. Rock-n-roll, no matter what its form, still touches millions and still uses horrendous grammar.

One made a video of childish stupid robots buying new phones without thinking and the other made a more realistic video with more exaggerations about a guy that was buying new phones every minute because new ones were created. In my opinion, it is actually a good way of communicating a message because the images can have stronger effects than a bunch of sentences. As we know, a picture is worth a thousand words. Also, it is important to notice that in both video, there is no human voice. There is only noise, which make us focus on the images. And finally, the length of these videos is pretty much the same. They are just longer enough to be able to clearly communicate their message and shorter enough to not loose our attention. In other words, I would say that making a video to communicate and influence people is really effective as long as it’s nor too short, nor too

Furthermore, the fact that the audio dovetails with the images seen on screen is also a persuasive technique. Where Noriega throws flowers out to the crowd, the corresponding words in the song are; "I love You". By using sarcasm and dovetailing it with the music, a powerful persuasive technique is effective.

This video is about living. Sturgill literally sings in it, “Someday you'll wake up and this life will be over.” The beginning of the song has a person waking up and it looks like he or she has aged overnight. Then, in the middle there’s all these things about living, like a gravestone and an alarm clock sitting on it, showing that life is the alarm clock, and that anyone could be dead in a second. There’s flowers that are being watered with a water can, and then they’re not being watered. The flowers showing that in life everyone has to live it and let grow it, before it can’t anymore. At one point there’s an old man riding a motorcycle around, and then crashing into the gravestone, that pretty much explaining how anyone can die at any given moment, even just driving down a road. At the end, it looks as if everyone is being taken up to heaven, like the last judgement in the bible. When they get to “heaven” there’s what appears to be a space ship, which is just a metaphor, because the song that this is album is on, is called, “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.” Also, throughout the entire video is shots of Simpson in a room, all alone, singing and playing his guitar by himself. That just helps to create the mood of the music video, and make it that much better. This video is all about

Gender expression has been an important part of the music industry, representing fashion trends and aesthetics, but most importantly, identity and culture. In this essay, I will be exploring how gender is represented and expressed in music and different genres express gender and ideological values in different ways. To illustrate how gender functions and is represented in music, I will describe and analyze four texts. The first “Forging Masculinity: Heavy Metal Sounds and Images of Gender”, exploring how metal music upkeeps masculine gender norms, next “Repressive Representations: Patriarchy and Femininities in Rock Music of the Counterculture”, describing how counterculture music of the 1960’s reconstitutes antiquated gender roles of women,

Music videos have the power to influence people and provide a way for the artist to express themselves. The society we view in today’s world is seen as a world beginning to finally open up to homosexuality. An example of the world we live in today can be found in a recent music video created by David Guetta called “Hey Mama”. The music video features Nicki Minaj who is used to introduce femininity in David Guetta’s work. The society David Guetta presents in the music video is more savage like, sexual, and parallel with today’s gender roles. In David Guetta’s music video “Hey Mama” sexuality and gender roles are portrayed in a world that is more fluid than binary.