Whitney Houston And Lil Wayne Comparison

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For this first section I chose to write about the Lil Wayne and Whitney Houston record reviews. Very different music styles and both popular during different time periods and fan favorites of very different groups of listeners. Lil Wayne’s album reviewer, Camp, reviewed his 2013 hit album“ I Am Not A Human Being II”. Ann Power’s reviewed Whitney Houston’s 2009 album “I Look To You”. Both writers have very different writing styles and since these artist are very different I thought these two would be a good choice, along with the fact that I do not think I have heard a Solange Knowles “hit” before. Ann Powers and Camp have very different writing styles. This could be attributed to the location for which their review was going to be published. …show more content…
What good can come of listening to Lil Wayne degrade women, and call his member every name in the book, or as Camp so directly put it, his dick. Very informal and casual if you ask me. Camp calls Lil Wayne’s lyrics “one bad dad punchline after the other, peppered with Trukfit product placements and tires rhyme schemes” (ZCAPP). To say the record reviewer was less than pleased with this album is an understatement. In contrast, Ann Power’s, review of Whitney Houston’s album is very formal. She writes about Whitney’s amazing musical talents, describing her glory days as having a voice that “ stands like a monument upon the landscape of 20th century pop, defining the architecture of their times, sheltering the dreams of millions and inspiring the climbing careers of countless imitators” (Powers). She was a legend and Powers so eloquently describes Whitney's grandeur. She describes Whitney’s voice as “huge, clean, cool mezzo-soprano”(Powers). I had to google that, it means “a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto” (Phillips). Which led me to have to look up soprano and contralto so I could grasp the greatness being described by Powers. Ann Power’s review was written very intellectually and formal as opposed to Zcamp’s

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