Billionaire Rhetorical Analysis

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The media plays a big role in forming people's’ values, whether it is a picture, tweet or music. These values are depicted through messages such as lyrics, like in Travie McCoy’s music video, for his song, “Billionaire.” Travie McCoy’s hit song, which features another artist Bruno Mars, was released in the year of 2010. The music video for “Billionaire,” was produced to show the different purposes of the music video and captures these purposes by using rhetorical appeals: pathos and logos. There are many purposes for Travie McCoy’s song and music video to “Billionaire,” but there are two main purposes that highlight media. One of the purposes of this music video is to show McCoy’s audience and viewers what he would do if he was …show more content…

Pathos is seen throughout the entire music video.is used to play with the listeners or viewers emotions. There are many scenes in the music video where McCoy gives back to those in help. There is a scene where a young guy is sitting at a curb next to the beach and Travie pulls up next to him in a car and gets out of his car then throws the guy his keys. This is a big gesture and makes the viewers of this video feel like Travie is a kind and giving man. This gesture goes with the purpose of this music video, which is giving to others. In the middle of the video, a guy is seen putting headphones on Travie on the sidewalk, next to the beach. As Travie is listening, he asks the guy if that is him who he is listening too and hands the guy some money to buy his mixtape. This is an example of pathos because Travie McCoy helps the guy by giving him some money, which helps that guy get his name out to other people and the money that was given to him, could go to any expenses to help him move forward with his music career. This particular scene visually makes Travie McCoy’s audience feel awed and like he did a good deed towards another person. This shows that even the smallest things in life

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