Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero
You would think from the title "Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero" that this article would be about... well why the music industry hates Guitar Hero. Well you would be dead wrong. This article doesn't even mention what the title suggests the subject will be! Instead Mr. Jeff Howe talks about what the music industry is doing to stop Guitar Hero and how the music industry would benefit from going into business with the game. Although Mr. Howe does fill his article with very well chosen words, I must say I did not think this article was a good one. For one, no matter how good his word choice, the article was just plain boring. After the first paragraph, I found myself barely even reading the darn thing! Instead I found myself kind of moving my eyes over the text without really even trying to see what he was writing. I actually had to go back and force myself to take in the words and make them register in my mind rather than have my mind pretend to read something for English class. I found out why my mind didn't really read Mr. Howe's article. It all just kind of runs together. It's like he's say the same thing in different words in a different order in each paragraph! He keeps repeating that the music industry would get more money from pairing up with Guitar Hero. He says it several times. Yeah, Jeff, I got it. They'll make more money. Please stop telling me that. I have a longer memory span than a goldfish, thank you. I think if Mr. Howe just stated some more facts, instead of reusing the ones he found in Google, that the article would be much more interesting.
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Interesting analysis, Melanie. I like that you focused on what the article did to you--in this case bored you.
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