RA #11

For this analysis I am analyzing the music video to the song by Michael Jackson called Billie Jean. To be honest I didn’t really get a whole lot more insight by watching the music video but I will make my best attempt. The target audience is most likely the people in his life that he is close to and that he wants to tell this story to. His argument is that he is kind of a ladies man but that he is not responsible for breaking Billie Jean’s heart and being the father of her child. There is also another argument coming from his friends and family that he should not be such a player and that he needs to be careful about what he does. The music video didn’t really help me a lot because most of it was Michael Jackson dancing, but there was also a detective type person that was following him around and trying to take pictures of him in order to get him in trouble. He definitely used ethos because of his celebrity and fame many people have seen this video. Also, he used pathos in the form of music and dancing. He was so influential that his music and music videos will be watched for many years to come. Again I think his argument was effective because his music has been so influential and to this day people still listen to his music and watch his music videos. However, I don’t think that people really understand what he is trying to say because the music video doesn’t portray very much, but maybe that’s what he was going for.