Please Answer these questions:
- What is the overall emotion evoked from this video? Explain how the various elements listed below function in creating this emotional feeling:
- Image
- Sound
- Gesture/Body Movement
- Now look up the lyrics to this song. Ignoring the music for a moment, what is the pathos of the lyrics? Consider the following questions:
- To whom is the narrator speaking?
- Summarize the narrator's message to the speaker.
- Does the narrator use honorific or pejorative language, and if so to what effect?
- Does the argument reinforce, challenge, or degrade any of your values or beliefs?
- What is the relationship between the pathos of the lyrics and the pathos of the music (discordant, complimentary, contradictory, symbiotic?)
- What is the relationship between the pathos generated by the music and lyrics and Outkast's ethos both as a band as a fake band created for this video?
- Does answering these questions at all change your engagement with this music?
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