Back Where I Come From
Where someone is born and raised holds a special place in their heart. In the song, “Back Where I Come From,” written by Kenny Chesney, he speaks from his heart about his hometown and attempts to share those feelings with his audience. He sings about specific experiences growing up, and this is his way of reflecting what the feeling of home means to him. The structure in which he has written this piece focuses a lot of attention on the author himself. His informality invites the audience to share his experiences with him. Chesney appeals to emotion through his anecdotes and creates an impression on the audience. Through the analysis of this song it is easy to identify the type of rhetorical appeal Kenny Chesney presents to his audience.
Kenny Chesney was born and raised in the tiny town of Luttrell, Tennessee. He played high school football and attended college. “Anyone who is passionate about music is emotional,”(“Kenny Chesney”) comments Chesney. Since he was young he had a dream to do what he loves most, and that is to sing. Kenny Chesney has become famous by singing about his own life, which is particularly apparent in the song, “Back Where I Come From.” Ultimately, it seems that he wants his audience to feel what he feels and be where he has been.
“My audience is smart. They are real people who lead whole lives,”(“Kenny Chesney”) explains Chesney. He believes his audience to be, in essence, like himself: those who feel the deeper meanings of life. When explaining the audience of a performer, it could be as straightforward as the people who fill music venues around the world to hear his music. In this case, it is more than that. It is the people who hear his music and don’t shrug it off as typ...
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...ics. A successful musical artist appeals to these rhetorical ideas to keep the interest growing for more of the same type of music.
The song, “Back Where I Come From” tells a lot about its author, Kenny Chesney. Lyrically, the song can relate to so any people on so many levels and appeals to its audience through emotion. The structure he uses affects the music he makes. There are so many ways of expressing feelings and emotions. Music seems to be one of the strongest ways of conveying deep thought and emotion, because without the added beat or tune, music is just words. Some audiences can relate just as well to written text, but Chesney’s audience loves him for his musical purpose and talents. He writes with his heart for people like him that can relate to his experiences or live with him his dreams. Kenny Chesney is a lover, a writer, a singer, and an inspirer.
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