Who is your favorite artist? Do you think that they are the most talented in the world? Your and my answer would differ because talent is subjective. Your honest assessment for an artist and mine are likely discrete. The prompt posits that people cannot correctly assess the famous musicians’ natural talent until the musician has been dead for several generations. Reason being that his fame is likely to interfere with an honest assessment from his contemporaries.
To being, let us deliberate over the authors’ contention that fame prohibits our honest assessment. Implying that fame crowds our judgment, we fail to think critically and make a fair assessment. This statement equates to that, just because someone is famous, people like their music without ever critically thinking about the artist. Firstly, we should sit back and think how many people try to be a musician. The answer is thousands if not millions, countries like Korea have schools/programs dedicated to making a career in music where people as young as seven enroll to be the next K-pop stars. An interview with the girl band Twice revealed that the girls had enrolled in the camp at a tender age and had been preparing for the past five years in the hopes that they would someday make it. Music is a highly competitive vocation. Artists put in much work to make it big. It should also be fair to say that those who make it have carved a path for themselves; they have stood out and captivated the audience and have become famous for a reason. Naysayers may say that artists often get fame through serendipity. Even if you entertain the thought of someone getting famous by chance, you will see how hard it would be for them to survive in their brutal vocation. To stay in this industry, an artist has to be talented in what they do; otherwise, hundreds are waiting to replace them.
Furthermore, I would like to note some observations about ourselves. We are ever-evolving; what we want today might repel us tomorrow. To support this claim, let me tell you about when I was in high school. I enjoyed listening to bands like the All-American Rejects, Simple Plan, everything emo, and rock in high school, and now years later, I appreciate a throwback. However, my tastes have evolved, now I am more into Country.
Similarly, I believe that any assessments we make now about popular music are likely to grow as we mature. What we like now might not be what we want later. When I was younger, I thought that The All-American Rejects were the most talented and the very best. Now, my reassessment makes me construe that that might not be the case, now I feel like Thomas R. is very gifted. The ephemerality of preference can be convince that our tastes change with time. It is not that an artist’s fame was proscribing our honest assessment. However, just because we evolve, we make different assessments as time passes.
On the other hand, contenders may solicit that many artists are only recognized posthumous. For example, when XXentacion was alive, I barely heard his songs. When he died of a drug overdose, many people like me first heard about him on the news or Instagram in our friends’ stories. With the increasing access to technology and a plethora of genres to listen a slew of artists are lost, oblivion to most of us. It is only when the artist meets his end and makes it to the forefront on the news or over the internet is it when we first encounter him. I would argue that XXentation was a great artist. To add, I would have appreciated his music if he had ever been introduced to me before his death. His fame would have made his music more accessible to me, but it would not change my assessment of his talent.
Finally, I would like to rest my case with this, music, and talent is a subjective entity. Just as we evolve, our tastes evolve, it is likely that our assessments might change in the future. The argument, asserting that the natural talent of famous musicians is not correctly assessed until several generations after as it stands now, is weakened for the reasons mentioned earlier.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, similarly, so, as to, for example, i feel, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 29.0 11.3162921348 256% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 113.0 33.0505617978 342% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3391.0 2235.4752809 152% => OK
No of words: 716.0 442.535393258 162% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73603351955 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.17283059074 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65154983054 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 336.0 215.323595506 156% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469273743017 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 1057.5 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 26.0 6.24550561798 416% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 42.0 20.2370786517 208% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.1045770734 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.7380952381 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0476190476 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.02380952381 5.21951772744 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 30.0 10.2758426966 292% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249065160686 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0577220032481 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827444036151 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156914986223 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127410799103 0.0667264976115 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 14.1392134831 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, similarly, so, as to, for example, i feel, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 29.0 11.3162921348 256% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 113.0 33.0505617978 342% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3391.0 2235.4752809 152% => OK
No of words: 716.0 442.535393258 162% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73603351955 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.17283059074 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65154983054 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 336.0 215.323595506 156% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469273743017 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 1057.5 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 26.0 6.24550561798 416% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 42.0 20.2370786517 208% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.1045770734 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.7380952381 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0476190476 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.02380952381 5.21951772744 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 30.0 10.2758426966 292% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249065160686 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0577220032481 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827444036151 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156914986223 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127410799103 0.0667264976115 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 14.1392134831 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.