Taylor Swift Blank Space Rhetorical Devices

The Demographic Imperative is crucial for intercultural competence seen from the recent mistakes of an uneducated spokesman, Miley Cyrus. From her last racy performance to this year’s racist lingo and attire, Cyrus demonstrated a perfect example of the horrible ignorance to the demographics of an audience. Increasing in diversity, the demographics of the United States have changed dramatically over the past few decades; “The U.S. population is now more than 308 million, of which 62.3 percent are European American, 16.3 percent are Latino, 12.6 percent are African American, 4.8 percent are Asian American, and 1.1 percent are Native American. About 2.9 percent of people identify themselves as belonging to two or more cultural groups. (Intercultural

The reason I included this song is that when I was in elementary school I rode the bus to school and home from school. When I would ride the bus that is when the kids would bully me on the way to school and that was an awful way to start the day with negative thoughts about myself, and then throughout the day the bullying would continue. However, in about second grade after many days of coming home crying because of the mean kids at school and on the bus, my parents got me an mP3 player and loaded a bunch of songs onto it. From that point on I would blast my music for the entire bus ride, one of the songs that helped me to understand that I had not done anything to deserve the people who bullied me bullying me was Mean by Taylor Swift. This

Many great writers have a way of connecting to their audience and influence the way we analyze their writing strategies. Cheryl Strayed created a biography, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, about her life changing experience that allows us the opportunity to apply aspects of a rhetorical analysis to her writing. Cheryl’s memory of her journey along the Pacific Crest Trail, that extends over 1,000 miles from Mexico to Canada, provides us with explicit details and evidence that tie into her motives and conditions for writing and her intended audience. Cheryl also makes appeals to her knowledge, trustworthiness, and emotions that help us illustrate her insights as she traveled along the trail.

Along with Taylor Swift saying this will be a new her, she is also referencing multiple other celebrities throughout the music video. Some say that when she is lying in a bathtub full of diamond jewelry she is making fun of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West when they had been robbed. Kim and Kanye were robbed in Paris while being at gunpoint. She also referenced Katy Perry multiple times. Including, when she crashed her car into a light post and had the exact same hair and an outfit style as Katy Perry would have. Which is Taylor is making fun of Katy saying that she is a drama queen and needs the attention of the paparazzi. She also references Katy by showing her walking a cheetah on a leash and Katy Perry is known for cheetah print and exotic things. Another person Taylor shows reference to be Tom Hiddleston with the black crop top t-shirts saying “I Love Taylor Swift” which is significant because Tom and Taylor dated for about three months, but Taylor broke it off because Tom wanted to go public and Taylor knew what

Family: Beyonce is Beyonce lives at home with mother, mother's husband, Pablo Velasquez, and three siblings - Jose (age 15), Solange (age 13) and Tristin (age 12). Beyonce parents have been separated for a number of years. Beyonce father resides in Florida and she las limited contact with him. The family originally is from North Bergen before moving to Elizabeth NJ. Beyonce and Mrs. Crespo continues to have a volatile relationship. Mrs. Crespo seems to relate to youth in a negative manner and seems frustrated with her behaviors. Beyonce asks Mrs. Crespo if she can live in North Bergen with her aunt Amber and Mrs. Crespo became verbally abuse towards youth. Mrs. Crespo expresses her feeling towards Beyonce question in a verbally hostile tone, she used several different foul words to describe how she feels about youth and her behaviors in the home. Mrs. Crespo behavior language became so inappropriate CM and Sosa had to inform Mrs. Crespo that if she cannot talk inappropriate tone without using foul language we are going to have to end the phone call. It is clear that Mrs. Crespo and Beyonce continues to have a difficult relationship and that due to the lack of respect they both have for one another.

The visual performance begins with a phone conversation, and the girl is saying that it is the boy’s fault, he left. Although the song hasn’t officially started this opening scene will establish the Logos of the song and show that this is a boy meets girl story. The song begins with the line “On the other side

In the year 1997, Time McGraw releases the album Everywhere. It contains a duet with his wife Faith Hill, also a country singer. The song becomes an instant hit with not only country fans, it also tops the Billboard’s hot country chart. Mr. McGraw is telling his wife how falling in love with her changed him. She being with him, loving him, has made him a better person. Throughout the years the song has been use as the first dance for many married couples. They message that conveys is very strong and powerful. True love is out there, and when found it should be preserved and expressed.

“Hey Taylor we wanted to play your amazing love songs and they’re not here right now we want you back with us and so do, do, do your fans.” – A poem for Taylor Swift from @SpotifyCares, posted after she pulled her full catalogue from the streaming service. The plea was spelled out using song titles in a Spotify playlist called “Come back, Taylor!”

The music video starts with two young children, playing and potentially falling in love. Everything going great between them, when suddenly uncertainties of some sort about their relationship, guides the girl to take advantage of the boy. The boy gives more than he receives and wonders where he went so wrong. The girl is with another guy, but feels a sort of emptiness. She crawls back to the boy, while he hopes she will realize how much he loves her. He just wants to be her giving tree and make her happy. He becomes the sad and lonely fool that is left with nothing, but a broken heart. When the

Taylor Swift is an American singer- songwriter. She wrote narrative songs about her personal life and it has received widespread media coverage. She was born and raised in Pennsylvania and moved to Nashville, Tennessee at 14 for a career in country music. She was the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. She co-wrote songs and tried to land a recording contract.

Even though this song is mainly about a woman that has been cheated on kicking her boyfriend out, she also wrote this song to prove to women it is okay to be independent and think for yourself. This song not only shows things that happen in real life, like abuse and lovers that cheat on each other, but also she is acting as a voce for all women and saying stand up for yourself and de not take any crap from anyone. She wrote this song about a woman that has been cheated on and decides to stand up for herself and be strong. During the song she kicks out her cheating boyfriend and is firm with him throughout the song. Before singing this song she was in an abusive relationship.

The song is typical of its’ genre because it is a love song like so many others in the R&B genre. There are many rhetorical appeals in the song, such as ethos and pathos. The music video tells us that John Legend was singing that song for his future wife Chrissy Teigen, so that would make John Legend credible. In a lot of videos it is a random person with the artist, but in this particular video John uses his real fiancée and shows that it is not a perfect relationship. This allows him to be credible because he is using his own real life situation and not an unrealistic one. When you think of the emotional appeals in the song(pathos), you’ll see that the entire lyrics are emotional. This is a love song with a lot of emotions throughout the lyrics. “Give your all to me. I'll give my all to you. You're my end and my beginning. Even when I lose I'm winning”, these song lyrics are showing how John feels about Chrissy and their love for each other. You can understand the emotional connection that the two share. The music video helps cement their relationship because the video only includes John and Chrissy. John is showing his love towards Chrissy by singing to her and the audience sees the emotions between

The song “Wildest Dreams” by Taylor Swift is part of her album “1989.” Taylor Swift wrote the song herself along with the song’s producers, Max Martin and Shellback. The song was released to radio on September 1st, 2015 as 1989’s fifth single after the song “Bad Blood.” Taylor says that the song was inspired by her late grandmother. The song is about Taylor voicing her plea to her lover, played by Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood’s son) to remember her after they supposedly break up.

The music video starts out with band member Tyler Joseph riding a tricycle, starting the repetitive focus on childhood aspects. Throughout the entire video, both boys ride around on tricycles, drink juice pouches, and travel between each other’s houses, much like neighborhood children do. As for the song itself, the lyrics reference wanting to “turn back time” and wishing

Swift express all of her heartbreak in every song she has recorded, art serves the purpose of conveying the artist’s thoughts and emotions. Marc Chagall’s painting is no different than any other artist. He is expressing his feelings through a work of art. Over Vitebsk gives us a look into his thoughts and inner most feelings. He expresses his thought and feeling about being Jewish and how Jewish people were treated in his society at this time period. His painting and better and holds more meaning then Taylor Swift but she was one of the first people to come to mind. His painting, Over Vitebsk, allows us, the viewers, to interpret and try to understand these thoughts and feelings, to attempt to see what he intended us to see, and allows us a glimpse into his inner self.