As the take home essay looms closer, I am putting some final touches on the paper. But, I still feel as if it could be more like a review and less like a strict, slightly boring essay. To get more of the feel of a review, I went to the Guardian, where I read up on one of my favorite singers of all time, the Dutch singer Caro Emerald and her preformance at the Royal Festival Hall in London. You will remember, last time, I read an article about Evanescence. There, I determined that diction in a review is key. I saw this repeated in the Emerald reivew, with the writer Caroline Sullivan writing "the salsa-hop My 2 Cents was even written about the floppy-fringed guitarist, apparently – she's [Caro Emerald's] too cracking a singer to fade into the background." While reading these words, mainly "crackling" and "floppy-fringed", I begin to form a picture about Miss Emerald's preformance. I imagine the crisp insturments, the dynamic singing of Miss Emerald as her long-haired guitarist jams tothe song about himself. These descriptions make me both feel like I was there and make me want to listen to her on a day to day basis (let's pretend I don't already.) For my Gotham review, I have to use flowery language to describe something. Saying something is good does not cut it. I need to say "dynamic", "intreging", or "ground-shattering".
The next thing I noticed was the comparisons used in the article. Sullivan compared Caro Emerald's preformance and songs to many things, saying "Emerald is perhaps the most easily digested of the retro-jazz/soul vocalists that have followed in Amy Winehouse's wake". By comparing a relatively unknown singer to a widely known and loved preformer, the audience gets a better feling for the argument Sullivna is trying to make. In mine, I would probably benefit from comparing Gotham to other famous forms of Batman, like the "Dark Night" franchise or the animated TV series. Since Gotham is darker, I think running parallels to the Dark Night would greatly benefit my argument. With these things in mind, I retire to finish my essay.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/15/caro-emerald-review
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