Analysis Of Lessley Anderson's Article 'Seduced By Perfect'

Music. Long ago, it was nothing but a symphony of Neanderthals banging random objects together and no one knows exactly where it originated from or who created it. However, what we do know is that we have so much to thank them for. Of course, music has heavily evolved from cavemen beating rocks together loudly and out of tune. In fact, music has become a major piece within the vast foundation of America’s culture. Looking back during the time of swing music, classic rock, 70s pop, smooth jazz, even with today’s odd mixes and mashups of songs, there’s really not one person that doesn’t like

J. Alfred Prufrock constantly lived in fear, in fear of life and death. T. S. Eliot divided his classic poem into three equally important sections. Each division provided the reader with insight into the mental structure of J. Alfred Prufrock. In actuality, Prufrock maintained a good heart and a worthy instinct, but he never seemed to truly exist. A false shadow hung over his existence. Prufrock never allowed himself to actually live. He had no ambitions that would drive him to succeed. The poem is a silent cry for help from Prufrock. In each section, T. S. Eliot provided his audience with vague attempts to understand J. Alfred Prufrock. Each individual reader can only interpret these

1. As it pertains to Anderson's article, “Seduced by “Perfect” Pitch: How Auto-Tune Conquered Pop Music,” why do people have a problem with Auto-tune when it is a special effect? For example, when a guitarist uses a wah-wah pedal to perform, the audience knows that the performer is using a peripheral device to create the sound, but they are listening for the effect. Why does the same concept have different reception when it is used with singers? 2. As it pertains to Anderson's article, “Seduced by “Perfect” Pitch: How Auto-Tune Conquered Pop Music,” would T-Pain have been as successful without Auto-Tune? Would his raw talent be enough to get him to the position where he was at his peak?

For the Best of the Best, Determination Outweighs Nature and Nurture by Alina Tugend, discusses the age old question about a person’s acquisition of talent. Are people naturally talented or can talent be gained through years of practice? Tugend’s article addresses the issue on a personal level and a scientific level. As she introduces the study, she reflects on her personal skills. She describes herself as a good writer and terrible singer, but questions why that is so. Her questions leads to expert’s opinions with scientific evidence in order to find an answer to this question.

"They turn casually to look at you, distracted, and get a mild distracted surprise, you're gone. Their blank look tells you that the girl they were fucking is not there anymore. You seem to have disappeared.(pg.263)" In Minot's story Lust you are play by play given the sequential events of a fifteen year old girls sex life. As portrayed by her thoughts after sex in this passage the girl is overly casual about the act of sex and years ahead of her time in her awareness of her actions. Minot's unique way of revealing to the reader the wild excursions done by this young promiscuous adolescent proves that she devalues the sacred act of sex. Furthermore, the manner in which the author illustrates to the reader these acts symbolizes the

Auto-Tune is a remarkable achievement, and unlike other music technologies that developed progressively overtime, Cher’s single ‘Believe’ ultimately revolutionized Auto-tune as she sold over 10 million copies and unveiled the technological achievement to the world, and T-Pain discovered that secret and released two of the best selling albums of 2007 and 2008, which made him ultimately successful. Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne also took advantage of Auto-Tone when they released their albums in 2008. The success of Auto-Tune is also traced to the fact that its robotic quality appealed all audiences, meaning that Auto-Tune still maintains the artist's vocal abilities, but it enhances their voice by making it sound electronic. (Michael Freeman, 2009).

The following paragraph is a response to the question 3 on page 230: Anderson claims that the “Auto-Tune or not Auto-Tune debate always seems to turn into a moralistic one …” (par.46). How and why would the topic of musical processing effects become a “moralistic” debate? What moral issues – if any – are at stake in this context? In her essay, “Seduced by Perfect Pitch: How Auto-Tune Conquered Pop Music,” Lessley Anderson claims that many artists use “Auto-Tune” when singing a song.

People walk around with cameras strapped to their heads or chest, videotaping their entire lives and posting it for the world to see, as they truly believe their own life is so significant that the entire universe should stop living their own lives and take the time to watch, comment, like and subscribe to their life instead of the viewer living their own lives. The music industry has even taken a turn towards encouraging narcissism. Lyrics have drastically changed from generation to generation, specifically Generation Z’s music lyrics contain “ “I” and “me”...more frequently along with anger-related words, while...a...decline in “we” and “us”and the expression of positive emotions” (Tierney). The music society listens to, the images they view daily, and the readily available ways to change appearance

“If stories were depopulated, the plots would disappear because characters and plots are interrelated” (76). I chose to do my analysis paper over the short story Lust by Susan Minot, in this analysis I will be going over how the use of characterization in lust contributes to the message about relationships. The first-person narrator starts off by detailing her sex life likes it’s a grocery list or some kinds of list of things to do on the weekend. It just goes to show how meaningless these relationship with her sex companions mean. Although we do not know what the reader looks like we do how she thinks and feels. We can feel the narrator become more detached and emotionless towards the end of the story. Even though she is emotionally removed for the story at the end she also becomes more self-aware of what she is doing, and comes to the realization that she is looking for a relationship in all the wrong places.

Music has played a major role as an agent of socialization in each of my 4 decades. I know and hope that it will continue to do so. During each period music has affected my personality, shown my personality, affected my perceptions and helped me to cope with growing and changing as a person. My Looking Glass Self has compared the person in song and possibly the singer themselves to myself to gain perspective of who I was at each time. I am going to discuss each decade with the thought of how music was an agent of socialization in each.

Throughout time, there has been a battle present in which females try to rise above the power of men and the hold they have on women. Whether the battle be for the equal treatment of both sexes or simply establishing a level of respect and understanding from the opposite sex, the meaning stands the same in which there is an ever-present power struggle that is continuously ongoing between the sexes. No matter the intentional meaning of the work, women suppression by men are seen when one looks beyond the simple statements given and examines the female characters in great detail to better understand the struggle she endures daily due to men. One author in particular that allows an interesting viewpoint into the mind of a blossoming woman is Susan Minot. Minot demonstrates in her story “Lust” how the female narrator is influenced and altered by her male sexual partners. Through each sexual encounter, the reader is able to see the changes these encounters have on the young woman emotionally and other affects a man has on her as she grows up in a male dominated world. This can all be determined by observing closely the figurative language used in the story, the fluctuations in emotions seen in the female character, and the thoughts the woman has about men throughout the story.

Music is much more than lip-sync or Auto-tune, even notes or lyrics. It’s about the emotions and hard work that is put into a song. There had to be an emotion that a songwriter feels when writing a lyric to a song or when a conductor changes the tempo of a song. The essence of Music is to entertain your audience. Keep them in tune with you and your Music. Not only grab their attention, but their emotions too. Our generation today has become numb to emotions express in a song. Music helps us to express our feeling for or toward one another. Hopefully Music can get back to the realness of the song before it

Although T-Pain started Auto-Tuning his voice because nobody else was doing it and he wanted to sound different, nowadays it seems that just about everybody sounds the same. “It used to make me sound different… Now I sound like everybody else again” said T-Pain (The New Tune). In response to the sudden explosion of artists that are using Auto-Tune, T-Pain said that people need to start paying him respect – and paying him literally – for their use of Auto-Tune. T-Pain said that other artists are ruining the use of Auto-Tune and that it’s basically over for them unless they start to pay up (www.mtv.com).

Nothing is more enjoyable than listening to your favorite song. All over the world, people listen to music on a daily basis. Music plays a major part in a tremendous number of people’s lives. While they are enjoying the music, they do not think about how the song came about. Music is not just the sound you hear or the voices in the background. People do not think about what is behind the scenes of where music comes from. Before the song is completed, someone has to make it happen. In music, there are different careers which are the song writer, the manager, the marketing executive, and the produced. Each of these careers play a huge role in how music is brought to the public.

With a great deal of different genres of music available for listening to, each genre must effect, shape, and allow for the expression of personality to be contrasting with each of the different genres of music that are available to us. In a recent study executed by Yair Neuman, Leonid Perlovsky, Yochai Cohen and Danny Livshits, from the Department of Education & Homeland Security Institute, based their experiment on “a very specific research question: Do personality types differ in terms of their essays’ similarity to the lyrics of various music genres?” (4). They set up their experiment to solely test whether a person’s personality can be directly affected by certain types of music. Their experiment concluded “…all results were statistically