sIn the article The Music You Need to Listen to Right Now, the The Ringer Staff (called "The Staff" from now on) make their claims for the best music that everybody and their mother needs to hear. The staff uses passionate diction to show their ample interest in the topic. In the third paragraph, when talking about Charly Bliss, the staff describes her music as "...words [that] create an atmosphere of macabre and unruly girliness..." (Lines 13-14). The amount of interest and love that the staff puts into describing Bliss's songs almost forces you to listen to the them, and make you feel like you will be hated if you do not LOVE them.
Another technique that the staff use really well in this article is their syntax. Even though the staff uses a very simplistic syntax which makes the article a little choppy at times, the choppiness for this type of piece works really well. Since this article is a list of songs and a description of them/why you NEED to listen to them, anything more than a simplistic syntax would throw the whole balance off. Having a sophisticated syntax with em dashes everywhere and (at least) 3 commas in each sentence would make the article overly complicated and turn off any potential readers. The lyrical tone of this article is shown in almost every paragraph throughout the article. In the fourth paragraph, Rich Homie Quan's writing style in his song 'Back to the Basics' is analyzed. "He stretches vowels out flat; he hollows them out and deepens them to better carry his feelings. He bends around the corners of the production, and speeds over its bumps". The entire phrase seems like a section from a corny love movie, or sounds like when somebody over analyzes something that does not need or require analyzing. The purpose of the article is to try and convince the reader to listen (and love) the music that the staff is recommending. The reader feels inclined to at least give the music the staff recommends a listen to because of the way they describe it. The staff gives each of the songs a paragraph of explanation for why you NEED to listen to that specific song, and their arguments are very powerful. The purpose for this article is needed. For as long as I can remember recommending music to my friends, everybody is too stubborn and scared to try something new. This stubbornness leads to those people getting caught in a cycle of listening to the same music over and over again, which will hopefully be broken once they read the reviews for these songs. The staff appeals to pathos in their argument to further convince the reader to listen to the music that they recommended. When talking about Stormyz's 'Gang Signs & Prayer', the staff says that the song "...showcases a gentler Stormyz, one who echoes his mother's wishes in turning to God (and gospel) for redemption". This description gives the song an entire new meaning, and makes the song seem like a story of Stormyz and his life. Overall, the staff's argument is very strong. They use personal experience, as well as appeals to pathos to convince the reader to listen to the music. Although their argument was already strong, the use of outside ratings of the songs would have been a helpful addition to the argument.
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