In her article Blue Skies and Balloons: Miley Cyrus Cleans Up on "Malibu, Lindsay Zoladz uses flowery diction in order to boast her intellect while still informing her audience about Miley's recently released single. Zoladz uses advanced words such as "precocious" (Line 2) and complicated phrases such as "artistic metamorphosis" (Line 7) idiotically because she scares away any potential readers with this college level language. Zoladz viciously attacks Miley's music, saying "He's [Billy Rae Cyrus] given us several months of advance warning..." (Line 7) when talking about the lead-up to this album, showing her hatred towards it.
Another skill that Zoladz overbearingly uses is her complicated syntax. Throughout the entire piece, Zoladz uses all forms of punctuation you can think of. Commas, em dashes, quotation marks, parentheses, and finally dashes. The average reader for this sort of article would be fans of Miley Cyrus, which according to Business Insider are teenagers (with the exception of a few Disney loving adults here and there). Most teenagers, when they see this article, would think that they are reading a passage from a textbook and immediately click to another article, if not close the site completely. Zoladz uses a contemptuous tone throughout the article, and while it is very negative towards Miley Cyrus, it can be quite humorous at times. In Lines 15-17, Zoladz makes multiple stabs at Miley, saying "...with only two different hair colors and nary a speck of glitter in sight", and when Cyrus announced that "I haven't smoked weed in three weeks!", Zoladz commented, "Willie Nelson, somewhere, raised an eyebrow". Zoladz openly insults Miley, and this openness makes the article seem like one big "roast" session on Miley, which is super entertaining. The purpose for this article is to inform the public about Miley Cyrus's forthcoming album, which Zoladz is very critical about. Her overall goal from this article is to persuade her readers to despise Cyrus, and to share how skeptical she is of Miley's "new self". Her position is not THAT unheard of. The nation was shocked when Miley was on tour and was dressed as a topless unicorn wearing a strap-on, and to many people, that was the end of Miley Cyrus. She seemed crazy. To further strengthen her argument, Zoladz appeals to pathos, and takes the position of a concerned parent. In paragraph 5, Zoladz writes "[Malibu] (Miley's new song) definitely won't offend any of the people who shielded their children's eyes during Miley's last tour...". Anybody who has children, or even cares about a young children, will read this statement and immediately feel like Miley is a threat to their children, and deem her not appropriate for said children. Although Zoladz "Anti-Miley" argument is very strong, the mere nostalgia that many of her fans have of her makes the argument not as jarring. They know that Miley has done some pretty wild things in her past, but they are still (and will always) wait for their "Hannah Montana" Miley Cyrus to come back, and nothing can really change that.
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