This week, you'll be doing another rhetorical analysis. Remember to answer the final questions: what is the message? Is that message conveyed effectively? Why or why not? in addition to the questions outlined in the previous rhetorical analysis prompt.
I would like you to analyze a song and its cover. I would like the cover to sound very different from the original. You may pick any song, but Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" and Ryan Adam's cover may prove fruitful. I just want you to deal with the audio, though the music video is (delightfully?) absurd. Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" and Mr. Little Jeans's cover are also possibilities. Johnny Cash also famously covered NIN's "Hurt". A helpful hint: pick a few specific lines from the songs & talk about how they sound differently in each song & what that means for each. All I want you to work with is the words vs. the sound. If you'd like to add to your 250 words and talk about the videos (some of them are really weird), you are welcome to, but please treat it as a separate part of the post. Remember that it is not required -- I will be looking for the rhetorical implications of words, music, and words & music together.
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