This contents page from NME has the genre of Rock/Alternative music - it talks about a festival being cancelled and the festival played the music that fits this magazine. It then explains that NME make a last minute gig out of stars that they know to 'save the day'. The way its written with the timeframe makes it feel as if the reader is there because they're reading exactly what happened and when so it's presented very vividly. Also, at the base of the article are 4 advertisment posters for new singles and songs for artists that fit the magazine's music taste. They layout is good because it shows all the music at the base so you read them last but since they're connected with the article above thats just been read, it makes it more tempting for the readers to go and buy.
Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, releases her third album The Haunted Man on Monday (25 October). She gave Q a personal tour through the record...
Lilies
"Every time I write an album, the first track is my favourite in a way. This one especially because the content of the song is a really good manifesto for the rest of the record. It starts out haunted by being lonely or not able to get inspiration, feeling a bit isolated. By the end it moves into this pro-life, elated full-on ending. For me, the album is about letting go of things and resolving something. I think because I wrote it over such a long time - a period of two years - I was almost trying to get away from extremes, trying to be a real person and settle down and find out about those bits in between the drama of feeling really sad and fucked up and really euphoric and happy, because I'd written the last album in that dramatic dark place. I wanted the The Haunted Man to be a bit more eclectic and varied and rich, I suppose."
All Your Gold
"This song was a real pain in the arse. It was the troubled teenager of the album. I wrote it really early on and it was kind of like an En Vogue-style R&B tune. I loved it but didn't know what to do with it cos it wasn't quite right. I tried it a few different production things, but in the end I realised it wasn't the production - the songwriting wasn't up to scratch. So I rewrote it with just the main hook and changed the key and re-wrote the chorus. It's really simple and with [co-producer] Dan Carey on the MPC [hip hop sampling machine], we sampled old indian drums and took lots of electronic hip hop 808 sounds and put them through old amps. We used forks on glasses of water as well, so there's loads of layers of percussion that made it what it was. It's a song about the difficult choice that women have; the choice between the good new guy and the old bad guy. If you know someone's bad for you and you really want them, it's really hard when you get someone nice. Women are really bad for that. This album is me taking away all the glitter and the feathers and all the things that have become passé in a way and also for me I felt like I'd pushed those visual symbols to the extreme. The question was, If I strip it away, can I still convey something powerful? I embraced it and if it feels like less like a reinvention than it does peeling back the layers to get to the essence of what you're feeling like. For me, this album is going back to square one. It was exciting, but it was a long process."
This article is on the Q music magazine website as one of the top ten features. The singer from Bat For Lashes is explaining about her songs she has written and the influences, symbolism, lyrical meaning etc. The genre of music is Alternative Pop fitting with the Q magazine music taste. The narrative of the article is dialogue directly from the singer explaining each song off of the album and verything behind and about it. She speaks with good english and uses very intellectually and uses fluent vocabulary - showing that this article is aimed at a more mature auduience so they can comprehend the language and also, young people wouldnt be very interested in the meaning behind the music - they would most likely just want to listen to it. The layout is simple with no images to appeal to a more mature audience linking with the song analysis audience,
Jared Leto saves fans from alleged bomber
According to internet reports, 30 Seconds To Mars frotnman Jared Leto saved fans from an alleged suicide bomber last night in Los Angeles.Fans were gathered at The Hive in West Hollywood for a special screening of a new 30 Seconds To Mars documentary when, at approximately 8:30PM, a young man in a black hooded top stormed into the venue. He pushed his way to the front of the room and dropped a large box covered in gold wrapping paper at Leto’s feet.
When the singer asked him to leave the stage, the unidentified male said “It’s time for a little self-help” and is then said to have allegedly muttered something about having explosives. Upon hearing this, Leto wrestled with the man and dragged him out of the room.
“[It was] weird,” said one eyewitness. “Everyone in the room watched him walk toward Jared. Jared said ‘Someone stop him’ three or four times, but no one did. The guy got to Jared, dropped the box on the floor and started to give a speech. Jared grabbed him by the shoulders and basically [dragged] him out the back door."
The alleged bomber was restrained by the band’s security guards until the police and bomb disposal experts arrived.
“I just finished with the police,” Leto wrote on his Twitter at 11PM last night. “They cleared five blocks and brought in the bomb squad and [sniffer] dogs.”
You can watch fan filmed footage of the incident below.
This article on the Kerrang! website about 30 Seconds To Mars front man Jared Leto fits the magzine genre because their music is exactly what readers are interested in, the rock and scream music. The narrative explains about when at a gig that a man came up on stage dropping a box in front of the band. Until Jared Leto dragged him off stage. This article is appealing to the audience because it invloves their live music, possible bombs, and wrestling someone off of the stage. The layout is simplistic with just one image of the band and then the text to appeal to a more mature audience.
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