I chose a song written by Stephanie Bentley and Rob Crosby, recorded by American Country artist, Martina McBride, released in two thousand and two. It’s a power balled, main theme is child abuse. A true event story about a seven year old named Angela Carter. The music video uses methods of patho’s and etho’s. Angela is dealing with the abuse from her alcoholic mother. The title Concrete Angel gives it a powerful message because no matter how hard her life got, she faced it with a smile. The video and the lyrics will leave you very emotional you are guaranteed to feel overcome with deep sorrow. Here’s a story reflecting all events in order as which they happened in the video. The lyrics, the little girl goes to school wearing a dress in hopes
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The neighbors hear noises from the house, but doubt any suspicions, just turning out the light. When morning comes it is too late and her soul flies to a place where she’s loved. The only remaining life of the little girl now is in a cemetery, a tall shiny rock in a shaded place. When I watched the music video, it gave me a better understanding of what the lyrics was meaning. The lyrics and the video are sure to put you on an emotional roller coaster ride. The video shows the little girl goes to school with a lunch bag in one hand and books in the other. She wears the dress as she wore yesterday, the linen and lace. The little girl becomes friends with a little boy who is next door. On an unsuspecting night, both of them were talking from their windows, than the mom violently enters the bedroom. She is shouting …show more content…
Angela is taken care of herself. Her mother doesn’t feed her or even care about her well-being. It shows the mother in the beginning of the video sitting on her bed in her bedroom, smoking a cigarette. The little girl walking out the door to school, no I love you sweetie have a good day from her mother. How strong Angela was, she kept praying someone would come rescue her from a nightmare she couldn’t wake up from. People need to realize how helpless children are in this cruel, heart breaking world we live in. At the very end of the video is a phone number to a hotline, called national abuse 4 kids. The video, the lyrics and being human, put a bunch of unsettling emotions in my heart and tears in my eyes. Everyone has seen or heard stories like this, if everyone stopped turning out the light, quit turning their heads, we could save a life working together. People who walk away or let fear keep their mouth shut, enrages me. Martina McBride is a very well-known singer and by her doing this video, gave the message about child abuse a powerful move. Her video contains pathos by being so meaningful and persuading. The emotional appeal was accomplished in multiple ways. The ethos, of both, was very convincing to me. Here are Martina McBride’s lyrics in her song, Concrete Angel and I wrote about what I seen in the music video.
“She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
The neighbors hear noises from the house, but doubt any suspicions, just turning out the light. When morning comes it is too late and her soul flies to a place where she’s loved. The only remaining life of the little girl now is in a cemetery, a tall shiny rock in a shaded place. When I watched the music video, it gave me a better understanding of what the lyrics was meaning. The lyrics and the video are sure to put you on an emotional roller coaster ride. The video shows the little girl goes to school with a lunch bag in one hand and books in the other. She wears the dress as she wore yesterday, the linen and lace. The little girl becomes friends with a little boy who is next door. On an unsuspecting night, both of them were talking from their windows, than the mom violently enters the bedroom. She is shouting …show more content…
Angela is taken care of herself. Her mother doesn’t feed her or even care about her well-being. It shows the mother in the beginning of the video sitting on her bed in her bedroom, smoking a cigarette. The little girl walking out the door to school, no I love you sweetie have a good day from her mother. How strong Angela was, she kept praying someone would come rescue her from a nightmare she couldn’t wake up from. People need to realize how helpless children are in this cruel, heart breaking world we live in. At the very end of the video is a phone number to a hotline, called national abuse 4 kids. The video, the lyrics and being human, put a bunch of unsettling emotions in my heart and tears in my eyes. Everyone has seen or heard stories like this, if everyone stopped turning out the light, quit turning their heads, we could save a life working together. People who walk away or let fear keep their mouth shut, enrages me. Martina McBride is a very well-known singer and by her doing this video, gave the message about child abuse a powerful move. Her video contains pathos by being so meaningful and persuading. The emotional appeal was accomplished in multiple ways. The ethos, of both, was very convincing to me. Here are Martina McBride’s lyrics in her song, Concrete Angel and I wrote about what I seen in the music video.
“She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back