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Charles Ojanama

Professor Myers

English 1201

16 February 2020

“Another summer day, has come and gone away,” is a piece of the song,

“Home,” that both Blake Shelton and Michael Buble sing in the first part of the song.

This lyric describes the long time that the artists have spent away from their lovers.

Throughout each music video, the story depicts each artist’s current situation and how

much they dread the fact that they are away from their loved ones.

While Michael Buble’s version of the song, “ Home,” was written and released to

the public as an audio first before Blake Shelton’s version, both versions released their

music videos of the song on October 26th, 2009. Along with sharing the same release

date, they also share the same purpose towards the viewers. Throughout each story,

the artists talk about the agony in their lives and how all they want to do is go home.

Both pieces of music are also two slow but powerful songs that share many emotions as

well as many of the same values. But, part of each song’s audience is different from the

other part. While Michael Buble creates the song with a Pop feel, Blake Shelton adds

his touch of Country that appeals to his normal audience.

However, Blake Shelton re-created the song, “ Home,” he added his style to

appeal to his normal audience. Instead of keeping the original genre, Pop, Blake

decided to change the genre to Country. Throughout Blake’s music video, he is seen

multiple times carrying or playing the guitar, a main instrument in the Country genre.

Another difference that splits each artist’s song into different genres is the background
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music in each piece. In Buble’s version of the song, the guitar is faintly heard while

other instruments play louder than it. In Shelton’s version, the guitar’s sound in the

background is largely boosted making it the main instrument heard throughout the song.

Furthermore, the different genres decide how each music video is depicted. In

Buble’s music video for “Home,” it stayed rather dark in each of the scenes. Whenever

the starting scene cut away to another one, Buble was met by the shutting off of lights,

making him blend into his background due to his black trenchcoat. While Michael’s

version of the song hosts a dark and eerie feel, Blake Shelton’s version provides a

bright and outdoors feeling that compliments the genre of the song, Country. At the

beginning of Blake’s video, he is seen walking around on the sidewalks of Paris while

reminiscing his “Home.” He is also seen sitting in his hotel room with the balcony doors

open and letting the sunlight pour into his room. The small difference in lighting gives a

feeling that provides one of the main things that divide each song from each other. This

division allows one type of audience to appeal to one song, and another to appeal to the

other song.

Between all of the rhetorical appeals, there was only one used in Michael Buble’s

song. This rhetorical appeal is Pathos. In Buble’s music video, he is singing about a girl

that he misses dearly. In multiple of the scenes in his video, Michael looks at a picture

of this girl as he sings about wanting to go home. Another appeal to Pathos that is made

in this song is when Michael sings about the agony that comes with being away from his

home. One of these agonies is described as, “ May be surrounded by, a million people I,

still feel all alone.” The agony that Michael is feeling is loneliness. He is experiencing

this agony because, as shown and mentioned in the song, he is not around the people
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that he knows and loves. The audience that this song would appeal to would-be anyone

who enjoys slow Pop music. It would also consist of anyone who has ever experienced

or is experiencing the emotional pain of being away from a loved one or loved ones.

The geographical location of this audience would be anyone in a medium to large size

city in the United States where Pop Culture is popular.

Consequently, Pathos is also the only rhetorical appeal used in Blake Shelton’s

version. Pathos is also appealed to in a very similar way. Throughout the song, Blake

sings about how he wants to go back home as he slowly makes his way back towards it.

Along with Michael Buble’s version of the song, “Home,” is depicted as a woman that is

seen at one point in each music video. In this copy, Blake Shelton is seen meeting up

with a woman at the end of the music video. Another way that Blake’s version appeals

to Pathos is when Blake is at the airport and sees multiple couples and families

expressing affection for each other. The need for this sentiment is one of the central

driving factors of Blake so desperately wanting to go home. For this version of the song,

the audience that would appeal to this video would be anyone who enjoys Country

music with a powerful voice behind the lyrics of the song. It would also consist of

anyone who has ever experienced or is experiencing the agony of being away from a

loved one or loved ones. Finally, the geographical location of the audience would be

anyone in a rural or partly rural part of the U.S.

“ Another summer day, has come and gone away,” is a quote from the music artists

Michael Buble and Blake Shelton from the emotional lyrics of the song, “ Home.” In the

two different versions of this song, the values of each are very closely related and some
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are even the same. But, each as a different musical tone to it. While Michael Buble’s

version appeals to an audience that enjoys a slow Pop feel, Blake Shelton’s version

appeals to an audience that enjoys slow Country music with a powerful voice behind the

lyrics.

Works Cited:

Buble, Michael. “Home.” It’s Time, Michael Buble, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbSOLBMUvIE

Shelton, Blake. “Home.” Pure BS, Michael Buble, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkoT1nZOexY