The Power of Writers

 Hi reader, 

    The writer of How music shapes the way we play video games, Kellen Beck, started their writing piece with a quote to grabs the reader’s attention. He quoted by a video game composer Grant Kirkhope saying, that images “tell the story, but the music tells you how to feel,” and especially grabbed my attention to want to read more. He continues to grab the reader to continue reading by using a popular movie, like Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as evidence for this point. He talks about how the ending of that movie about has been “flat” and all of the drama is gone from the absence of music. This supports his thesis of music changes how a game feels and how people remember the game, or this case a movie, in the future. Great music productions will be remembered for a very long time, and that is what the author says throughout his writing piece.

    In another writing piece, Inside His DNA: How Kendrick Lamar Makes Listeners Empathize—and Why That’s Important, by Lex Pryor going into how Kendrick writes his music based on his feelings and thoughts around the world and in his communities. He tells people about his storytelling through his raps and usually does not write about boasting himself or about other artists. Pryor talks about Kendrick’s success when he became the “first non-jazz or classical artist to win the Pulitzer Prize,” and him getting multiple platinum awards for many of his work. But I would say Pryor ended his paper very well by connecting his title to his conclusion and adding a personal note with his ending. He ends by saying Kendrick can “rap about is what he knows and what he’s seen” and many black people experience many truths. These connections to the title making listeners feel what the artist is going through and Kendrick makes his music from what he knows and sees in his life. The author makes one last point saying that “Africans sang in bellies of ships” and that is why Pryor’s grandfather listened to Mahalia, and Douglass because they wanted “to resist.”

 Image by Tibor Janosi Mozes from Pixabay 

Sources:

How music shapes the way we play video games

Inside His DNA

Sincerely Raj