Music review analysis

This is my analysis of a review of Clare Maguire from the sunday times magazine:

Answer these questions before reading the article:

  1.      What do you think is the relevance of the term ‘Talking Topshop Blues’?

This Heading suggests that someone perhaps famous will be talking about how they feel about Topshop – ‘Blues’, not happy, sadness.

Alliteration

   2.      How many columns are there?

3

3.      How Many images?

1

4.      What connotations do the image gave the artist and the content of the article?

That she is a meaningful singer, who sings quite calm music, looks gothic with the red twigs and jet black hair

5.      What are you initial impressions of this music feature?

There is lots of text, so people must have to be interested in reading about music. People who buy music magazines want to read about the music. This text to picture ration is too high, it could be broken up using images, subheadings, quotes etc.

Answer these questions after reading the article:

1.      What techniques does the writer use in the first sentence to engage the reader?

The writers compare her to previous year’s extremely successful artists.

2.      What does ‘Ubiquity’ mean?

status

3.      What is the focus on paragraph one?

Describing her voice, the type of music she sings and her popularity and her new album

4.      What technique features in Maguire’s quote in paragraph two?

Repetition of the word element.

5.      In paragraph two, how is Maguire made to sound like an average person?

Because she is ‘suffering from a cold and nursing a fruit tea, in a café in Brixton’

6.      What is the focus on paragraph three?

Describing her appearance and how she is representing herself.

7.      What do you think is exaggerated in paragraph three?

How she is a dark-pop girl and a dark and trouble soul and the bluesy genre of her music.

8.      In paragraph five, what point is made about Maguire’s relationship with music?

Her feelings of ‘apartness’, pain and sorrow. It helps her express her feelings.

9.      How many artists are mentioned in paragraph six?

8

10.  What tone does the article end?

A positive tone, expectation, it is a new artist, and who can potentionally do well in the industry.

11.  Which current artist is Maguire most similar to?

Ellie Goulding, Pixie Lott, Florence Welch.