Janis Joplin was a true artist. She put her emotions into her work and didn't think twice about it. In Joplin's "One Night Stand," she did not appeal to logic. The point of her music to share her personal emotions and thoughts with the audience and evoke emotions as well. The song "One Night Stand" is more like her stream of consciousness during a night in a town she doesn't even know the name of. She expresses her feelings of freedom by exploring sexual relations with someone who she will probably never see again. She also explicitly tells the other person that they will never be anything more to her than a one night stand, which shows that she does not care about who the person is or what they think of her, she only cares about being free to feel.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Logos of Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin was a true artist. She put her emotions into her work and didn't think twice about it. In Joplin's "One Night Stand," she did not appeal to logic. The point of her music to share her personal emotions and thoughts with the audience and evoke emotions as well. The song "One Night Stand" is more like her stream of consciousness during a night in a town she doesn't even know the name of. She expresses her feelings of freedom by exploring sexual relations with someone who she will probably never see again. She also explicitly tells the other person that they will never be anything more to her than a one night stand, which shows that she does not care about who the person is or what they think of her, she only cares about being free to feel.
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I agree with you it is very difficult to establish logos, in the field of music simply because it is almost entirely up to the expression of the artists. It becomes even more difficult when the lyrics are very sexual. However their is probably a particular audience that she can logically appeal to and that is most likely progressive women who were apart of the sexual revolution.
ReplyDeleteFor her style of music and the message she was trying to get across I agree that there isn't any logos used. Since she was describing a personal event it's difficult to establish logos. Typically logos is established in advertisements and speeches but music usually attacks the emotions of listeners
ReplyDeleteFor her style of music and the message she was trying to get across I agree that there isn't any logos used. Since she was describing a personal event it's difficult to establish logos. Typically logos is established in advertisements and speeches but music usually attacks the emotions of listeners
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