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So I’m supposed to do a rhetoric analysis on an ad that I see, and since I spend most of my time on youtube, I decided to do a youtube video. So, as I was going through my youtube surfing, I spot this video of a guy singing boom boom pow. Now you see, although this may not seem like an ad, it actually advertises many things. First, it advertises him as a singer, he was bad, but since he was so bad, it was funny and therefore made people like watching him therefore making him famous. It also helped the Black Eyed Peas song because it gave it more publicity having more people either want to or not want to listen to the song. Even though it does not say, listen to the song Boom Boom Pow, or Hire me for your next event or show, it shows it through the action of putting his face on Youtube for everyone to see for he obviously did it for the sake of attention. In the words of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, I would see this ad as a definite pathos appeal for it persuades the audience to either book him for an event or listen to the actual song by having himself sing the song making people either feel happy, sad, disgusted, or humored. Personally, I found it humorous and for this reason I am sharing to you readers this video using my own advertisement. You see, on blogs, people as well can advertised and for what you are advertising, for example this guy, or like a car company, its free for them. For things like YouTube and blogs, they get free advertisement and people would use this as a Ethos appeal because sometimes I just sound really smart, sometimes maybe not, but on a blog, if someone is reading it, the reader thinks, why would this guy lie to me, he has no reason to lie to me, unless he is a complete douchebag, then I guess he can, but there really is no reason, therefore giving me an ethos appeal. Anyways, back to the video, so pretty much if you don’t know the song boom boom pow, its pretty much the black eyed peas going boom boom boom a lot and got to get get a lot and its somewhat annoying but catchy. This boy however decided to take the song and put his own spin, his thick accent is kind of funny, and when Fergie, a girl, sings he starts singing like a girl, he randomly starts changing pitches because he thinks hes cool, and he obviously does not know the words making him look ridiculous, but for those reasons, the video is hilarious. If there was no video, it would make his singing totally bad. He has more videos like him singing poker face by lady gaga and even more, which I am listening to now, he has a really big adam’s apple, and he dances with strange hand motions like there is one where he looks like he is skinning a potato, the Boom Boom Pow video has alittle less than five hundred thousand views and really this is just ridiculous. But to be honest, I am pretty sure if someone saw this guy on the street, he would be called, the skinny asian singing guy and he probably is the most popular guy in school, actually probably not but he is probably known throughout his city as the guy who sings songs. I really can not really say anything else about this ad, pretty much, I think it is very funny, and you should watch it, maybe I will just put the url down like 378 times so it will be 1000 words, but that is lame and I don’t want to do that, but yea this guy he uses pathos to hit you emotions hard by either laughter or you just get really annoyed because he is so asian sounding and he randomly sings and he just pretty much butchers or made the song awesome, whatever you want to think. His voice is really high too so it hits you ear drums pretty hard too but its cool. But yea watch It its GREAT! So yea pC.

I thought the video was pretty funny as well. I agree that it appeals to emotions because it makes the audience laugh when they watch it.
ReplyDeleteThis video is hilarious, I was cracking up. This is a really good way to get people to listen to someone since it is really funny and makes people want to listen.
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