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This article was about the urban legend of a "Best New Artist Grammy Curse." It's audience was clearly people who are familiar with both the Grammys, an award show, and past winners of the Grammys, like the ones cited like Milli Vanilli and the Beatles. These kind of people would probably young, but not as young as to not remember the people. So people in their twenties to forties who keep up with pop culture is the most likely audience that the author was aiming for. Does The Best New Artist Grammy Curse Exist? by Monique Melendez is an in depth exploration of this myth of the Grammy curse, and how it relates to what is happening today, what artists have faded away and which ones have not. The first half of the article is giving evidence of why the curse may be real, but the second half tries to disprove this. Melendez makes use of many rhetoric devices like using direct quotes from experts and rhetoric questions. Some of the direct quotes she uses is from past winners of the Best New Artist Grammy, like Taffy Danoff and Colin Hay, who both felt like they were victims of this curse. These direct quotations added weight to her argument because it was from people who could explain how this "curse" worked, and why it happened, as they had drawn the short straw themselves. Melendez's rhetoric questioning was also very effective in the second part of the essay where she was trying to prove that there wasn't a curse. She used the questioning to offer up new scenarios of why winners might face an unlucky streak after winning. In conclusion, I believe that Melendez was very convincing because in the first half she made me believe that their might be a curse but in the second half she flipped that on its head and showed why it wasn't true.
This article was about the urban legend of a "Best New Artist Grammy Curse." It's audience was clearly people who are familiar with both the Grammys, an award show, and past winners of the Grammys, like the ones cited like Milli Vanilli and the Beatles. These kind of people would probably young, but not as young as to not remember the people. So people in their twenties to forties who keep up with pop culture is the most likely audience that the author was aiming for. Does The Best New Artist Grammy Curse Exist? by Monique Melendez is an in depth exploration of this myth of the Grammy curse, and how it relates to what is happening today, what artists have faded away and which ones have not. The first half of the article is giving evidence of why the curse may be real, but the second half tries to disprove this. Melendez makes use of many rhetoric devices like using direct quotes from experts and rhetoric questions. Some of the direct quotes she uses is from past winners of the Best New Artist Grammy, like Taffy Danoff and Colin Hay, who both felt like they were victims of this curse. These direct quotations added weight to her argument because it was from people who could explain how this "curse" worked, and why it happened, as they had drawn the short straw themselves. Melendez's rhetoric questioning was also very effective in the second part of the essay where she was trying to prove that there wasn't a curse. She used the questioning to offer up new scenarios of why winners might face an unlucky streak after winning. In conclusion, I believe that Melendez was very convincing because in the first half she made me believe that their might be a curse but in the second half she flipped that on its head and showed why it wasn't true.
