If you are, as we have previously discussed at some length, cultivating an audience through your brand, then you need to provide each post with an exigence that they care about enough to read a fitting response to it. What exigence did you provide for your audience in Blog Post Four "Genre Analysis" and what exigence will you provide for them in Blog Post Five "Cultural Criticism"?
For blog post four, I believe I peaked interest by immediately stating that Prince had created the blueprint for how modern musicians approach pop music. I believe this would have allowed readers to be like "oh, how?" and then want to continue reading to find out. For blog post five, I think that I will do something similar. I am not entirely sure which album I will be writing about yet, but by stating how greatly a particular artist changed themselves/changed what is desired by listeners will hopefully lead readers to wonder what about them changed and why.
ReplyDeleteFor Blog Post Four, I introduced my post as a comparison between country and pop, singling out one song under the country label and one song under the pop label that I wrote about. I was hoping that this would urge the audience to think about Taylor Swift's music in this way and figure out how different each song she writes is. For Blog Post Five, I am going to provide the audience with a cultural analysis of Taylor Swift's album "Red" and decide what about her background could be related to the songs she writes. I know that at the beginning of the semester we were told to not use their personal background to explain the music but I am going to use the ideas that explain her culture, much like I would react to her music differently than other people because we all have a different cultural background. Taylor Swift uses her culture as a basis of her writing.
ReplyDeleteThe way I get the exigence across to my readers is through an in depth introduction. i find it essential that you get your problem across really quick and within the first couple sentences. I dont write my blogs in the normal English format with a thesis problem. A person looking for a review of modern rap music is not going to want to read a page long intro that rambles on until the end of the paragraph and then states the problem.I will do the same sort of thing in blog post 5.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the "Genre History" post, I think the exigence that I provided for the audience was what exactly qualifies something to fall under the category of indie, and specifically indie folk. The term indie is thrown around so often in music that it's hard to qualify one album as indie, and denounce another as not being so. I used an album that had all the ingredients of being an 'indie folk' album and reviewed in order to show my audience, to the best of my ability, what I thought indie folk to be. For the cultural criticism, the exigence I want to provide is why a certain album is relevant to our current times and how it affects our culture as a whole.
ReplyDeleteIn blog post 4 the audience would find it interesting because it gave a short but interesting history of rap as a genre. It stands apart from other break downs of the genre because it wasnt long and wordy so it would be an easy read for someone who cares about rap. In blog post 5 i plan to make it engaging and interesting by showing the lighter side of rap and the funny culture that surrounds the music.
ReplyDeleteWe have come to a time where everything is a cameo. Everything is mentioned somewhere. The origin of an entire genre of music can be found in video games; that would be electronic music. Often over looked, electronic music has its roots deep in the 8-bit sound of early video games. We can see the growth of this music almost explicitly in the Legend of Zelda franchise. Blog post 4 was all about how the evolution of the music in that series. Blog post 5 will be about how modern day electronic music can find its childhood home in the roots of the toots in games.
ReplyDeleteFor Blog Post 4, I framed my exigence in a way that draws all people in. Even if my reader wasn't a fan of Billy Joel, they would still find my post interesting because a lot of it was history-based and interesting. I write my blogs in such a way that creates an exigence of interest in the subject and music of Billy Joel, so that people who are not as familiar with his story and music can expand their pre-existing knowledge about it. I am not sure what exactly I am doing yet for Blog Post 5, but I think I am going to show how New York culture effects the music of Billy Joel, and I plan to follow the same exigence and make my post interesting.
ReplyDeleteFor blog post 4, I was trying to compare the roots of indie music to what we mostly consider indie music to be today by comparing it to a popular musician and how his sound has changed over the course of his released albums. but this post still needs some revising.
ReplyDeleteFor blog post 5 I haven't even started to think about how I will approach this assignment. Maybe I could pick a new genre and how it relates to the genre I normally write about/ listen to.
Generally, my exigence or problem that needs to be fixed is usually that people, including myself, do not appreciate certain genres of music. For blog post 4 I tried to explain my exigence to my audience by using a specific voice that is easy to read that also gave interesting facts about the history of Black Sabbath. I know that I personally will stop reading or caring about something if it isn't easy to read, so that is usually how I try to get my point across. In blog post 5, though, I might try something different in which I still write in the same voice but I provide examples of how culture influenced the artist I choose to write about in a way that my audience can relate to. For example, my audience is college-aged people, so I will want to use modern or young ideas about culture to make them want to keep reading and learning about the specific artist I wrote about.
ReplyDeleteClassic and almost hippy rock was my focus in blog post four. while i discussed the the upbringing of classic rock and how santana fit into the mix, I also wanted to make sure that the audience got a feel for how santana worked and merged their way into the classic rock gods of not only musical essentials but into my brand of trippy stoner hits as well. my goal is for readers to get a new sense of this artist (and surrounding ones as well) in a new light as the creators of classic rock and as traditional psychedelic rock as well.
ReplyDeletein regards to blog post 5, i will be focusing on david bowie but as him during his ziggy stardust phase. this will be interesting as society was open to whatever cultural nonconformity he was doing but still wasn't quite with the ball game yet.
Okay. So lets see how much I'll stumble over this question. So. My blog is Screw It, so I think something about my blog that is interesting is its bluntness. A way that my audience can feel like I'm expressing an invitation to start a conversation is me calling out the bad things or the theoretical problems I'll bring up and challenging my readers to change it. For example, in my last blog post I talked about Motown and the challenges the artist there faced. And if I wanted to say those problems were still existing today, I could call out the assholes forcing the problem and challenge my readers to do something about it. (I really hope this is what you're looking for, guys.) I think, overall, as long as I make sure not to get too wordy and scholarly and I stay blunt and crude in my challenges, it will be interesting.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to blog post four, I feel as if I missed the mark when it comes to exigence a bit. My intent was to give the readers insight as to why Kanye became the Kanye he is today and where he transitioned over. The entire purpose of my blog, "I miss the old Kanye" so I want to give the people who are with me on missing the old Kanye a little nostalgic feeling and a clear explanation. Blog post five:
ReplyDeleteBlogpost 4 exigence: what is this genre and what's made it what t is today?
ReplyDeleteI express that exigence through trying to explain the history and sonic elements from the ground up in a simplistic way.
Possible blog post 5 exigence: People cannnot discern whether vaporwave is a meme/joke or not due to "meme culture."
I could possibly explain this through examples of when it's used for laughs and when it's not...
My blog is all about ignorant rap so I tried to connect my audience to that through the use of being sarcastically over the top with ignorance myself. It's tricky because at the same time I don't want to come off as sounding like an idiot so I try to actually back it up. For genre analysis I tried to actually show why rappers are how they are at the moment. I actually believe what I had to say about everything, but I tried making it somewhat funny and interesting by being blatantly ignorant.
ReplyDeleteMy exigence for Blog Post 4 was more focused on education. I attempted to create a professional, informative voice that hooked an audience with a desire to push deeper than the basics. My exigence for Blog Post 5 will most likely feature an attempt to dissuade critics from using culture to "boycott" an entire genre.
ReplyDeleteIn blog post 4, I reviewed Savage Mode by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin because the albums lyrics are mostly monotone and the beats are slow. This is a contrast from the trap music of Waka Flocka, Gucci Mane, Migos, and other trap artists in the past. I felt like it would be a good album to review to show how trap music has evolved from the beginning of trap drug houses to now. In blog post 5, I want to write about the culture the cultivated rap music.
ReplyDeleteI missed the mark on blog post 4 but I would hope to revise it and be able to provide the exigence of a different take on techno history. So I would like to add more of events that were small but still made a difference whereas I believe I only put major changes to the genre. The I would hope to have a clear exigence in blog post 5.
ReplyDeleteIn blog post 4 I gave the history of how two legends brought two unique styles to create what R&B truly is.
ReplyDeleteI totally missed the mark on blog post 4, I didn't give a very good reason for my reader to even read my post, it was just my version of the summary of rock. I should have made a bigger deal about how my version of the history might change people's perspectives of this specific journey through rock.
ReplyDeleteOn blog post 5 I ended up with a musical theatre album. So i think i want to entice the reader into reading what i have to say on musical theatre and how it has been affected by the culture.
I’m speaking to a group that tends to dislike an artist if it gets into the top 20 of the billboard top 100, so a cultural criticism on mass produced pop would be the most fitting response to their eternal exigence of “When will my favorite artist sell out?”. I will try to speak on Ed Sheeran and how he is a person who “Overcame a lot” when they grew up middle class, and led pretty normal lives until he made it big. The whole concept of half-baked emotionalism will be one of the key speaking points.
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