Reverse Outline

-Introduction-

Talk about the purpose of the paper
Mention the three main points

-1st paragraph-

Thomas Rhett and the new country

his songs

genre

-2nd-

love for his wife

his marriage

his music about his wife

-3rd-

Family dedication

I want my reader to have more insight on what makes Thomas Rhett the person and singer he is. I want to offer them insight on how his music is portrayed and why he is a part of the new country and how good of husband and family man he is.

Artist Profile Start

transformation of country music

What is genre? Genre is a form of classification for music. Genre separates one style of music from the other. For instance, rap and country are two types of genre. (insert quote from scholarly article). Fans create the need to change music because of the new popular ideas and genres. Thomas Rhett is one of the obvious boundary defining artists in country music. He has created a new style of country music that involves up beat tempos and a rap like flow of lyrics. What about him could've caused that? When asked about his childhood in a interview Rhett mentions growing up listening to a multitude of genres. This could've very easy created a blur in his music. His music includes beat drops, flow, and almost a sense of swagger. In music like Southside(talk about what album that was from and when it was created), Rhett is (talk about the song in deeper depth)

Structural Revision 4/27

1. This paper talks about the life of Thomas Rhett and how he changed country music, how much he loves his wife, and how much of a family man.

2. first paragraph- This is an introduction to Thomas Rhett and the content in the paper.
second- This paragraph describes why and how Rhett changed country music.
third- This paragraph is about his love and dedication to his wife Lauren through music and actions.
forth- This paragraph is about the dedication showed towards his family.
fifth- A conclusion and recap on the paper and three main topics.

3. The only thing I can think that's missing is in text citations. I went straight by my bubble outline.
I think my paper is cut down to the minimum. I tried to be concise with this paper and put only the right amount of detail.
I believe this is a good order for my paper. I think that my transition has been better in this paper versus others this year.

4. Blur
Family
Wife
Genre
Music

5. Introduction- This paragraph does it's job.
-First Body- I went straight by my bubble outline so nothing is missing. I think all of the information in this paragraph is useful. I think maybe I can look at the order of this paragraph. My quote could be placed in a better place.
-Second Paragraph- I went straight by the bubble outline. I think all of the information speaks to the topic and is useful. I think the order of this paragraph is fine, I tried to relate each sentence to the next.
-Third- I went straight by the bubble outline. I think all of the information is essential to provide understanding of the topic. I think the order in this paragraph is fine.
-Forth- This paragraph does it's job.

6. Blur- I could probably double the use of this word in the first paragraph.
Family- I think family is used enough but maybe could throw it in again.
Wife- I think wife is used enough but maybe once more.
Genre- The first body paragraph establishes that genre is a key word.
Music- I think this key word could be used once more maybe.

Research Cheat Sheet

For each source, quotation, information. idea

·         http://www.thomasrhett.com/about   (Interview)

      -“Growing up, there was no such thing as listening to one radio station,”

      -You could say the same about Tangled Up. Produced by Dan Huff and Jesse Frasure, the  album  is  filled  with  party  anthems,  dance  tunes,  drinking songs,  love  ballads,  and everything in between,  all  tied together  by  a dynamic  singer  who’s  unafraid  to  blur  the lines  between  genres. 

      -talk about the idea that thomas rhett likes to blur the lines of genres and likes his music to be energetic in an interview style paragraph

i     http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/thomas_rhett/video.html  (Biographical)

      -"Die a Happy Man" is a song written by Rhett for his wife who was also his childhood sweetheart, Lauren Gregory. They have been married since 2012 and are currently expecting their first baby as they're still in a process of adopting a child from Africa.

Famous as : Country music singer

Birth Name : Thomas Rhett Akins Jr.

Birth Date : March 30, 1990

Birth Place : Valdosta, Georgia, USA

Spouse : Lauren Gregory (since 12-Oct-12)

Claim to Fame : Single "It Goes Like This" (2013)

-introduce thomas rhett and talk about his wife related to his music

·    

             https://www.instagram.com/thomasrhettakins/?hl=en  (Social Media)
      -"I love you baby" "Daddy is cold"
      -Last one. I love this because I just spilled a beer on mom and @laur_akins is laughing in the background
-     -use his instagram account to describe the dedication he has with his wife and family

     

·         http://www.eonline.com/news/829745/thomas-rhett-adopting-a-child-from-africa-and-his-wife-lauren-akins-is-pregnant  (Picture)
      -use this picture to show his happiness with his marriage and talk about him having a child

       https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1c3smy4e8v8isl/Classification%20and%20Culture%20%28Lena%20and%20Peterson%29.pdf?dl=0
       -“Boundary-defining work occurs within a shifting social, political, economic, and cultural landscape”
      -genre is always changing
      -talk about how genre is viewed and how thomas rhett is changing the country music genre
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Brainstorming Sheet for Artist Profile

3 Main Topics to talk about Thomas Rhett/bigger purpose
-transformation of country music and the new style
-family dedication
-marriage/love for his wife despite his style of music/singing with other women and music videos
How to attack the paper?
-use sources to advantage
-use thomas rhetts words
-create an interview style paper
-break the paper into sections
-include detail on the three main topics
1st topic-new style of country
-use evidence of him talking about it
-talk about how he listens to different genres
2nd topic
-talk about his baby and adoption
-talk about bringing his wife on tour with him
3rd topic
-talk about his music video changes
-talk about his marriage

Class day activity 4/13

-what is the purpose of your essay?
The purpose of this essay is to inform. I chose this artist to learn about a dig deeper into their lives and I would like to inform people of what I found. I would like people to read about it if they enjoy Thomas Rhett.

-What types of content are you going to create?
I plan to use my sources to provide information about the artist. I would also like to use that information to create almost a dialogue between words I choose and artists responses to other articles.

-who is your ideal audience?
My ideal audience would be readers interested in country music in general. Thomas Rhett fans could be a good target audience as well because it has interesting facts and news about Rhett.

-How will your outside sources play a role in this essay?
They will provide information on the artist. I plan to use some narrative dialogue and the articles will provide answers from other interviews of Thomas Rhett.

-Which of the academic writing skills that we have ALREADY USED IN OTHER PAPERS do you plan to use in this essay?
I plan to use the planning out method, working each paragraph step by step. I feel this breaks down the paper into much easier chunks. 

Should have a decent reachable word count
should be mla format
should include use of your sources and citations
1st or 3rd person not sure which but probably 3rd because we aren't the ones interviewing our people

To Do for Final Draft

-Put the sources in MLA format and put them before the 250 words about the source
-Make the 5 song playlist
-intro should introduce the artist and talk about the 3 topics
-with the discussion part make sure im talking about the 3 big things and how that source relates
-make sure to fill in any key things i discussed today into my paper

3 possible topics for paper

revolution of country music
Family
Giving back/charity


Notes on Jaylens paper
J Cole- social issues
talking about the other rappers music
social issues in his music
police brutality
explanation of his thoughts on social issues
capitalism-payed slavery
thoughts on capitalism
speak his mind to change how people view things or the world
changing social issues
he wants his music to speak a message

Sources and Songs HW

Sources and Songs

·         http://www.thomasrhett.com/about   (Interview)

·         http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/thomas_rhett/video.html  (Biographical)

·         https://www.instagram.com/thomasrhettakins/?hl=en  (Social Media)

·         http://www.eonline.com/news/829745/thomas-rhett-adopting-a-child-from-africa-and-his-wife-lauren-akins-is-pregnant  (Picture)

 

·         (Scholarly)

Songs

1.      Die A Happy Man

2.      Craving You

3.      Star Of The Show

4.      Like It’s The Last Time

5.      It Goes Like This

Possible Sources for Annotated Bib

Possible Profile about some of his songs(interview)

http://www.thomasrhett.com/about


Background Information and News and Songs
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/thomas_rhett/video.html


Marriage and Family
http://tasteofcountry.com/thomas-rhett-wife-marriage-rules/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-rhett-wife-pregnant-adopting-africa/



Charity with his wife(orphan)
http://people.com/country/thomas-rhett-raises-money-147-million-orphans-may-adopt/


Social Media
https://twitter.com/ThomasRhett?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://www.instagram.com/thomasrhettakins/?hl=en

Artist choice for AB and Artist Profile

Thomas Rhett
-I am very highly considering Thomas Rhett as my artist for this project. I think he is a good choice for talking about issues of the world. He is a famous celebrity that believes in a strong non celebrity marriage which is cool. His family is big on volunteering with children in Africa and charities in the United States. Thomas has many good things I feel I can write about. I also very much so enjoy his style and sound of music.


Songs
-Die A Happy Man
-Star Of The Show

Planning Day Notes

I think the habits that I'm using this semester in this class are working decently. I think staying caught up on my homework is a great success for me. I think that checking the blog often also has helped me.

I think I need to try to participate more in class. It can be hard to participate though because only some conversations are open ended but I do try to voice my knowledge some. I think I need to make sure I send in my assignments on time as well.

Notes on The House That Hova Built

-talks about how his rap has changed as hes gotten older
-talks about how rappers influence the world
-talks about how the world has changed
In this article it talks about the rapper Jay Z and how rap culture has tried to change the world but also how the world really is. It goes into depth in some instances about how black culture grows up.
-political issues
-social issues
-black culture
-rappers scenes and culture
-parenthood
-language

Brainstorming for Short Paper #2

3 elements-
-Images
-Cultural Context
-Narrative

Introduction about the history of the song

Paragraph About Narrative

Paragraph about cultural context

Paragraph about images

Conclusion about the listening experience, How does the song affect the listener, and why does that matter?

Sentence about Hip Hop article

Hip Hop brought the people together, making whites and blacks socially interact.

Mon. Feb. 27th Reading Activity

In his article "There Goes The Neighborhood: Hip Hop Creepin' on a Come up at the U", talks about the idea of being a white middle class freshmen student and the use of hip hop in freshmen composition.


5 sections

    1. Intro- The introduction talks about a rap video that displays a little of what the article is about in a song by P Diddy.

    2. Won't you be my neighbor- This section talks about the idea of being ghetto and how it became a real thing with an identity.

    3. Last paragraph 329- This section talks about the comparison of whiteness and blackness and how white kids use rap music.

    4. School- This section talks about how students should be taught in many different ways.

    5. Hip Hop in School- This section talks about how kids should be pushed to explore their interests  in school.

Playlist and Response

Brantley Gilbert- The Weekend

This song to me is almost in the form of a narrative that is repetitive. It talks about a country party over the weekend. It mentions living for the weekend which most country folks look forward to whether that means bass fishing or drinking beer. This song also gives me the ideas of many images popping into my head. I remember when I was in school waiting for the bell to ring like the lyrics mention. I also can picture and relate to the lyrics of a yeti full of good ideas as I just purchased a yeti. I also enjoy the vocal performance in this song. Brantley Gilbert has a very strong country accent which I enjoy as a southern small town country boy. I believe he did a good job of choosing lyrics.

Cole Swindell- Flatliner

This song gives many images to me as a listener. When I listen to this song I see a country bar with a big dance floor. I also see a pretty girl wearing daisy dukes and cowgirl boots dancing all over the dance floor. This song has a strong vocal performance from both Cole Swindell and Dierks Bentley. They both have a catchy country accent which is appealing to me because of my love for country music. This song uses the basic country song instruments. I hear a strong guitar sound, maybe even electric guitar. This songs also has a very upbeat catchy rhythm.

Tim McGraw- How I'll Always Be

This song has to be one of my all time favorite country songs. Tim McGraw is an awesome country artist. This song gives me strong images of my hometown and even takes me back. I can personally connect and see the church back row as well as the stray dogs. The vocal performance from Tim is a very great one. He has a strong country accent and background as do I. The lyric choice was great. This song has a great catchy country style rhythm. This country song is more of the laid back narrative style.

In class reading 2/23

What are the arguments?
hip hop has helped the civil rights movement for blacks
class and race




What are the questions?
how does hip hop influence class rooms?




Stylistic differences?
very descriptive

Playlist post 2/22

Ingredients(beat, images, references, etc.)

Did it for the Culture
-drinking and smoking
-hoes
-the hood
-shoot out
-heavy rap beat with soft sound
-narrative
-repetition

I Drive Your Truck
-piano
-soft beat
-truck
-country
-backroads
-104.1
-talking to his mom
-the death of his dad or brother
-guitar
-slow to fast beat rhythm
-so much imagery
-talks about his life after the loss of his dad or brother
-skoal can

Elements
-Narrative
-Beat
-Rhythm
-Connections
-Tone

Short Post 2/22

Worked Well:

I used the planning out process that we did in class to my advantage to get the groundwork for my paper.


Didn't Work:

I didn't find APA too easy considering it didn't have a title page so I will have to figure that out.

Brainstorming for 1st Short Essay

How do you listen to music?
-Words and beat at once
-listen to the song a few times
-if I really try to get the meaning of a song I listen to it while doing nothing else

Why do you listen to music?
-For entertainment
-To change my mood, get pumped up, fall asleep etc.
-For class
-For relaxation

What larger purpose does listening to music have for you?
-I listen to music to get away from the world and feel relaxed. Music can take my mind off of any other problems and allow me to jam out as loud as I want and maybe even sing.

Synoptic comprehension and immediate comprehension in first paragraph

3 variables in second paragraph
-Main activity
-performing musical activities
-listening to background music

Sick Day Activity 2/13 Playlist Songs

FGL- Sun Daze

This song has a very catchy beat with lots of different musical instruments and meaningful words. I think this song talks about having a relaxing day with friends. This song has the name Sun Daze and when I first listened to it I thought it was saying Sundays. I think this made me feel the idea of relaxation because usually Sundays are a day for relaxation and fun. It gives me the image of maybe a beach or pool day with a bunch of drinking and smoking. It also gives me the image of a place with multiple girls in bikinis. This is simply another song about a FGL country party.


Joe Nichols- Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off

This song seems like another country party song. It starts by Joe telling his grandma he will take care of the house while she goes out when in reality he is planning on throwing a big party. It talks about a girl having a good time with her friends. I see the girls getting sloppy drunk and losing her clothing items, one by one. It talks about the girl drinking multiple kinds of alcohol but puts emphasis on tequila and what it does. This song seems like a great pool party song or a song maybe you could listen to while relaxing on the beach with friends.

Research Short 2/13

The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2579974?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=country&searchText=music&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fwc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26group%3Dnone%26acc%3Don%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26Query%3Dcountry%2Bmusic&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

1. This article is about the effects of listening to country music and its connections to suicide on white males.

2. The first section talks about who the study was conducted on and what causes the acts of suicide.
    The second section talks about how they conducted the study by breaking it down into certain areas of the United States.
    The third section talks about the results of the study on whites and blacks connected with suicide.
    The fourth section talks about the conclusion of the study with a chart.

3. Suicide
    Country
    White
    Low class
    Black

4. Why does music cause suicide?
     Does rap cause black suicide?
     Why commit suicide?

5. I don't believe that the music causes someone to commit suicide. People that wish to commit suicide have a bigger reason than the music that they listen to. Only a select number of country songs actually talk about suicide or killing in general. The problems mentioned are real things like alcohol addiction, but the music is not the reason that someone has problems with alcohol abuse. Suicide is a serious problem that should be investigated but I really find it hard to believe that country music has any relation to someone wanting to kill themselves. I don't agree with this article.

Notes on Country Music Poem

Story? He walks down the street, he drinks, he has sex, he slaps a girl, wants a fight, and someone gets stabbed at the mall.
Who is the narrator? Dickman
Ideas? The idea is that he has done bad things and no one can be perfect. The idea is that guys are always viewed as bad people. We don't live in a pretend world.
Feelings? This poem makes me feel like I never want to read again.
Images? In the first scene I think of the hood instead of a country scene. I also can see the girl getting undressed. I can see a guy hitting a girl.

Honestly this poem was possibly the worst or maybe just the weirdest piece of work I have ever read. I can't really tell if it's that bad or if it's just the weirdness that makes it so terrible. I'm not really sure what the author tried to accomplish by writing this. If he was trying to compare his words to the words of many country music songs then he did a pretty bad job. Sure some of his references sound somewhat like things sung about in country music but not a significant amount enough to name the title "Country Music". Maybe the author was just trying to make fun of country music by using a terrible poem I'm not really sure. The author could possibly also be making fun of the way that city people do things as well, like carrying groceries in a tote bag or having a book club. It seems like to me anyways that this author isn't perfectly clear on the point he is trying to get across to the readers. The poem strikes me as one that is meant to be funny but maybe the author is trying to convey a serious topic through his expressions.

Party People- Florida Georgia Line

The song Party People by Florida Georgia Line has a very up beat and intriguing tempo. Unlike many country songs Party People has multiple beat drops throughout and they range from small, barely noticeable ones to bigger intensive ones. The words flow very well with the beat of the song. Within the chorus, like many other songs, there are rhyming patterns that I believe to be AB-AB. Also in the song you can recognize that you hear only one voice throughout the whole song. Florida Georgia Line is composed of two male singers and it sounds like one of them sings the main parts but possibly both of them sing the chorus.

The song Party People by Florida Georgia Line is one of my favorite new country hits of the past couple years. Party People has no big life lesson meaning it is just simply about the idea of a country party. The song goes into major detail about the superstitions of a very country party with lyrics like "buck wild" and talking about a disco ball on a front porch which is usually connected with a "rednecks" house. The song tries to persuade you to make sure you live out your weekends and have a good time because it will soon be Monday and it will be back to work.


How Many Drinks Remix- Miguel ft. Kendrick Lamar

The song How Many Drinks has a remix version that features Kendrick Lamar and the lead singer is a nontraditional rapper by the name of Miguel. The song features many different beats that range from up beat to lower tempo. The song only has one beat drop in it and that is when Kendrick Lamar opens up the only traditional rap in the song. The song features softer than normal singing for a rap song along with a beat that features snapping noises. The song like most rap songs features only a small section of rhythm that is in the chorus.

The song How Many Drinks remix by Miguel featuring Kendrick Lamar talks about a guy at a club scene that possibly spots a certain girl and sings about the ways he feels about her and how we plans to get her to come home with him. He goes into the ways that he could persuade her to come home with him singing about How Many Drinks it would take for her to leave the club with him. The song is basically about his methods of flirting in order to get some girl to leave the club and come home to get in bed with him.