Each group analyzing the same review will be in direct competition with the group analyzing there same review. Each member of the group that answers the questions better, as determined by me with input from your peers, will receive an extra point (remember I grade those on a five point scale) on their Workshop 3 grade.
Use our discussion to answer the following questions:
- What is the reviewer's (NOT the artist's) exigence for writing the article?
- Describe the reviewer's (NOT the artist's ) ethos? How does she establish it? Give specific examples.
- What kind of emotional response (pathos) does the author (NOT the artist) try to evoke from the audience? How does she do this? Give specific examples.
- How does the author characterize the artist? In other words, how does the reviewer describe the artist's ethos? Give specific examples.
- How does the author characterize the artist's connection to her audience? In other words, how does the reviewer describe the artist's pathos? Give specific examples?
- How does the author describe the relationship between the artists purpose and execution? In other word, how does the reviewer describe the artists logos? Give specific examples.
- Take some time to listen to some of the artist's songs. Consider, and give a brief explanation of how the reviewer's characterization of the artist's ethos, pathos, and logos effects how you engage with the music. Include the name of the song(s) to which your group listened.
Claire Spence, Samer Ghai
ReplyDelete1. To give us background on Courtney Love's life after the suicide of Kurt Cobain.
2. The reviewer is a fan in Love's audience and seems to be watching the artist fall apart on stage. She does this by using many quotes that Love tells her audience while she is on stage. An example would be when a guy from the audience said, "I wanna fuck you Courtney!" and she said, "I wanna fuck you, too, but only if you're a water sign."
3. The author tries to give the audience a look into Courtney's broken life by sending them through a roller coaster of emotions. The reviewer describes the performance as "devastating."
4. The author give the artist a description that is hard to believe. The reviewer says, "it turned out to be a promising opening." Later on in the review, she proceeds to describe Love as, "a voluptuous car wreck, a pathetic fuck-doll, a body to die for."
5. The audience was mostly confused by Love's approach and were "waiting around for Nine Inch Nails to erase Love's tits and pathos with their precisely packaged anguish." The reviewer does a good job of showing the artists pathos through all of the quotes.
6. Courtney Love didn't have a purpose and just did whatever came to her mind, leaving the audience in awe. She was hammered, "she tore off her bra, thrust out her chest, and slurred."
7. After watch her live "Hole" concert, we were left wondering when she would do something crazy like take her clothes off or yell something offensive towards the crowd.
1. The reviewer's exigency for writing the article is to talk about the Queen Beyonce
ReplyDelete2. Even from the title, the audience gets the ethos that the review is authentically relatable without trying too hard to be. For example, the title, is witty and poignant and displays that Jones knows what she's talking about. She also mentions the two inaugurations that Beyonce was asked to perform, implying that Beyonce's power is almost presidential.
3. Jones works to evoke a sense of empowerment, not just for the audience that enjoys Knowles's music, but also Knowles herself. Jones mentions that "young black female singers rarely past the red rope and into the Genius Lounge-the moody, the male, and the dead crowd that room." This sentence right here shows that what Beyonce has done has put her on an immortal level.
4. Jones characterize's Beyonce as basically musical royalty. Every description of Knowles compares her to presidents, duchesses, and even religious beings, insinuating that Knowles is musical deity. Again, Jones mentions that young black females rarely reach that level of notoriety in the music industry and the fact that Knowles has done this is an incredible feat.
5. Jones specifically credits I am...Sasha Fierce and even more specifically "Single Ladies" to what really connected audiences to Beyonce. The album itself was all about redefinition and self-empowerment, but at the same time it was unifying in the sense that the audience knew they weren't the only ones feeling this way.
6. Again, Jones talks a lot about "Single Ladies" and the impact it had on audiences, with its music video being more iconic than the song itself. This is a perfect example of how Knowles was able to help audiences put a name to a face and really connect with her as an artist, without having to delve into deeper thought and emotion. Knowles's songs are easy to understand and chew through, and yet critics of music are still able to give Knowles credit for what she's done.
7. "If I Were A Boy" is basically Feminism 101 because it speaks a lot on the differences between the way women and men operate. The song offers strong vocals from Knowles, as well as lyricism, which all brings it back to the empowering factor of her music, and especially with this song.
Chloe Rafferty, Tia Hunter, Lelia Rice
ReplyDeleteCharles Aaron On Hole At Nautica Stage
1. The reviewer's exigence for writing this article is to inform people and point out that Courtney Love went back on stage too soon after her boyfriend, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide.
2. Aaron's ethos as the speaker is that he is at the concert among the crowd, and he is viewing Courtney Love while being critical through the mind of the audience.
3. Aaron's emotional response to Courtney Love's performance is that he's trying to evoke pity for Courtney Love, by pointing out how much of a mess she is and how it was too soon for her to get back on stage. He states, "A kid near me yelled, 'That's why they call you a whore!!!'", and, "If you cared at all, it was devastating".
4. Aaron describes Courtney Love as broken and miserable, barely able to perform. He states, "It was like watching your sister strip for a stag party".
5. Aaron shows that Courtney Love's relationship with her audience is broken as well. The audience is uncomfortable and it is obvious that they don't want to see the disaster on the stage. He states, "The crowd looked on, stunned, she tore off the bra, thrust out her chest, and slurred".
6. Aaron shows that the Courtney Love doesn't have a good purpose for performing, that she wanted to perform to grieve, to act out, and to prove that she had nothing to do with Kurt's suicide.
7. (Ran out of time)
Mashley, Haley, Katherine:
ReplyDelete1. Jones's exigence is describing how Beyonce's career was always meant to be a solo artist. She describes how Beyonce has constantly maintained the top of the charts without being explicit (such as Taylor Swift, for example). "...she never drifts to back of the classroom." is how the reviewer describes Beyonce's career.
2. Jones's ethos is extremely pro-Beyonce. Frankly, who isn't, but she takes all positive bias into Beyonce's career. This can be showed, by example, through the line "she's really good at being good."
3. Jones gives a summarized version of Beyonce and her past then reflects it as her ability to control and empower a room, and- in particular- women. It is nothing unusual, however, Jones really makes it a fact that Beyonce is the leader of "strong and independent women." This evokes a sense of power and an all-knowing, competent being from Beyonce to the readers.
4. Jones describes Beyonce as the strength that has pulled this generation together. "Why Knowles could not make her own record as spontaneous and magnetic probably has something to do with the Knowles vision of Beyonce's fans and how much actual fierceness they can take" is a quote from Jones summarizing Beyonce's brand and how she impacts her listeners.
5. As previously mentioned, Jones focuses on Beyonce being the "queen." Luckily, this generation has taken to that name as well (duly naming her Queen B) and looks to Beyonce as the prime woman.
6. "Yet none of this involved Beyonce cursing, committing infidelity or breaking any laws, even in character" is how Jones describes Beyonce being a good role model and that her entire goal was to be a good role model.
7. Jones talks about how Beyonce is the most empowered woman of this generation. Listening to her songs regularly, we see where the author is coming from and we see the connection Beyonce is attempting to make between her and her audience.
1. Lizzy Goodman writes this to inform those specific groups of people who care about Sonic Youth and Kim Gordon, and by extension who care about the personal life of Kim Gordon.
ReplyDelete2. Goodman attempts to come across as a mix of feminist and hipster with maybe a bit of fangirl thrown in.
3. Goodman tries to elicit a sympathetic response from her audience, painting a very personal portrait of Kim Gordon. This is created through her description of Gordon's familial relations and the decay of those ties.
Also Ben Giddons was in this group
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ReplyDelete1. The reviewer's problem being addressed is the absence of good reviews on avant-garde feminist work. She elaborates in saying that this album is often overlooked because she is making music individually, without outside influence, "These 14 tracks are evidence of Boucher's labor and an articulation of a pop vision that is incontrovertibly hers, inviting the wider world in."
ReplyDelete2. Her ethos is direct and abrasive, leaving no colorful language back and holding her opinion as fact. This is best illustrated in the last paragraph, "The album is an epic holiday buffet of tendentious feminist fuck-off, with second helpings for anonymous commenters and music industry blood-suckers."
3. If there were a movement that best characterized this review, it would be that of pussy riot. Her language is energetic and dense, illustrating herself as an angry feminist who feeds off the energy of Grimes' character. The quote "She's not a human Tumblr, as we called her (somewhat humiliatingly) in 2012; she's a human zeitgeist, redrawing all the binaries and boundaries by which we define pop music and forcing us to come along" really clarifies Hopper's opinion of Grimes as a movement.
4. Hopper characterizes the artist with the quote "Her conflicted, vertiginous relationship with the fast fame that followed Visions seems to have led her to a place of DGAF liberation". She shows Grimes as an independent power figure of Avant-Garde pop.
5. Hopper defines Grimes Pathos as "an epic holiday buffet of tendentious feminist fuck-off, with second helpings for anonymous commenters and music industry blood-suckers. Her conflicted, vertiginous relationship with the fast fame that followed Visions seems to have led her to a place of DGAF liberation". There is a real respect for Grimes' individuality and lyricism.
6. Her purpose is "These 14 tracks are evidence of Boucher's labor and an articulation of a pop vision that is incontrovertibly hers, inviting the wider world in." she uses "Flesh without Blood" and her production.
7. she's really good.
John David Rinehart, Jack Hall
Bisha and Zach worked together
ReplyDelete1. Goodman wants to use the article in order to personify Gordon. Goodman describes Gordon as a mysterious person and uses the article to show a more personal side of Gordon, "And yet, as scrutinized as she has been, Gordon has always been considered a mystery." She's showing why she respects and admires Kim Gordon.
ReplyDelete2.Goodman is trying to have the reader relate to Kim Gordon. She puts the reader through a day in the life of Gordon so to speak.
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3.The author is trying to evoke friendly and connected emotions towards Gordon. Goodman wants to make you feel as if you two are friends who could go get coffee together.
4. The author characterizes the artist as a carefree, sweet and feminie, even though she comes off as a cool badass.
How does the author characterize the artist's connection to her audience? In other words, how does the reviewer describe the artist's pathos? Give specific examples?
She shows how Kim Gordon is truly a caring and sweet person, even though her public imagine wasn't the same. She was a true feminist. The reviewer shows these characteristics by trying to make Kim Gordon very relatable through her in depth descriptions.
How does the author describe the relationship between the artists purpose and execution? In other word, how does the reviewer describe the artists logos? Give specific examples.
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Take some time to listen to some of the artist's songs. Consider, and give a brief explanation of how the reviewer's characterization of the artist's ethos, pathos, and logos effects how you engage with the music. Include the name of the song(s) to which your group listened.
and Alex P :-)
DeleteFlesh without blood really stuck us as the most topical song to this review. It is a shrill, sweet voice saying "Fuck-you" just as the reviewer implied.
ReplyDelete1. Jessica Hopper wrote this review because no one else had talked about how the Grimes had changed through her albums. She also felt the need to articulate the underlying messages that Hopper believes the audience cannot miss in this album.
ReplyDelete2. Hopper’s brand is heavily based in giving light to the social commentary of albums, specifically feminism. With her deep background in music, Hopper draws comparisons between multiple different genres of music and illuminates the similarities of themes of that music. “Art Angels is a gilded coffin nail to outmoded sexist arguments that women in pop are constructed products, a mere frame for male producers' talents.” This quote expressly states the line that she is drawing from the album to the real world.
3. Hopper uses poignant foul language in very specific points to extract responses from the audience. She uses “fuck-off” twice within her review, and both times, it draws the readers’ attention and shows Hopper’s intensity. Hopper also describes and analyzes the album in such a way that it empowers the reader in the same way the music does.
4. Like above, the use of foul language sparingly lets the reader understand what the songs feel like. Hopper describes Grimes as a badass feminist that could rule the world. Grimes is also described as an exception to a lot of the rules of pop.
5. Hopper describes Grimes’s logos as direct and accurate.
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7. Grimes is pop, electric and dance pop mixed together to make a uk sound, that you could easily find and pick out. Her brand is dance pop, no song is alike and are made to be danced to. Her pathos is EDM and dance raves. Even though she technically is pop her genre is created to dance around in a tight venue, with tons of people feeling every beat of the music.