The article I picked to analyze is on National Public Radio and it is named “Studying How, And What, We Download.” The article focuses on how illegally downloading music has become a huge part of the fans. People no longer buy music, but they just torrent it. Limewire was a huge program for music but it got shut down a couple years ago. Artists complain about their fans not giving them credit, but they have to realize that they don’t come out with albums. They give away a song at a time, and the reason fans don’t pay 1$ for one song is because it’s overpriced. An album is different because you get an extra 20 songs for a 15$ album. A huge band right now is The Black Keys and their album contains 11 songs. The album costs 9$ so it is cheaper than the 1$ a song that itunes offers. Another artist is Calvin Harris, his album consists of 15 songs and it costs 10$. When the artists release a single and expect the audience to pay a dollar for it, they are ripping their fans off.
The way NPR did their talk show was to do a quick overview at the start. Briefly talk about the topic so people know the overall subject that you will be talking about. They talked about it for around a minute, and then they moved on to talk about the companies involved with music piracy. While they were talking about the different artists who get illegally downloaded they would play a snippet of their songs on the radio. For my audio essay I will be using a sample of music in it, because it changes up the style. Someone talking for hours and hours would make it extremely boring so adding things to the audio essay will definitely help. Also adding a guest speaker will add another perspective to the topic. This audio essay from NPR had 2 guest speakers and they both added more substance to the podcast. The thing NPR did was they talked about the past companies involving music piracy and how they were shut down a couple years ago. NPR also talked about how there are alternative ways to listen to the music legally and illegally. When I do my audio essay I can look at an alternative perspective to add more detail. NPR has short audio essays but they get to the central point right away, and provide a lot of information quickly. They rarely pause for more than 5 seconds to play a song and then right after that they just discuss about the song that was played or move onto another topic.
Topic I’d like to talk about in my audio essay: DJ’s taking over the music scene, Disney buying LucasArts.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/11/08/164656743/studying-how-and-what-we-download
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