To get the listeners attention, the Blacked Eyed Peas start their song “Where is the Love?” with a question. When you start a song with a question, it makes the listener think that something important is going on. Although this song came out eleven years ago, it continues to have relevance today. The fact that people still listen to the song today means that it has had an impact in their lives. Three rhetorical ideas that are in this song are logos, ethos and pathos. Logos is the basic logic that people can learn from something, ethos is the credibility of the song, and pathos is the emotional portion of the song. The song “Where is the Love?” has examples of all three, which is to impact its listeners in a personal, yet, effective way. The
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The logos in the this song are seen through rhetorical examples and some history. Rhetorical examples can be used to bring up past memories of the audience. A good example from the song is “overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism, but we still got terrorists her livin’ in the USA, the big CIA, the bloods and the crips and the KKK”. I believe that the relation people can make to this line is because of the issues our nation has with terrorism. Many Americans have experienced the hate and pain from terrorism, so much, that they would prefer not to experience again. Not to mention this song was written just a couple of years after September 11, 2001. The logos in this phrase is that we are trying to stop terrorism in our nation and the world, but that we will never be able to. There will always be terrorism in our country. It’s a way a life for them, to pass down their religion and beliefs. The people that have experienced a difficult event, comparable to terrorism, in their life can also relate to this. Another part of logos in the song can be through examples of history. “A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover” is an example of history in the song. The War on Iraq is mentioned in this line using logos, because it makes people ponder about why we went to war and why we are still
The logos in the this song are seen through rhetorical examples and some history. Rhetorical examples can be used to bring up past memories of the audience. A good example from the song is “overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism, but we still got terrorists her livin’ in the USA, the big CIA, the bloods and the crips and the KKK”. I believe that the relation people can make to this line is because of the issues our nation has with terrorism. Many Americans have experienced the hate and pain from terrorism, so much, that they would prefer not to experience again. Not to mention this song was written just a couple of years after September 11, 2001. The logos in this phrase is that we are trying to stop terrorism in our nation and the world, but that we will never be able to. There will always be terrorism in our country. It’s a way a life for them, to pass down their religion and beliefs. The people that have experienced a difficult event, comparable to terrorism, in their life can also relate to this. Another part of logos in the song can be through examples of history. “A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover” is an example of history in the song. The War on Iraq is mentioned in this line using logos, because it makes people ponder about why we went to war and why we are still