Semester Two, Blog Three.

http://dancemusic.about.com/od/artistshomepages/a/LadyGagaInt.htm
In this article, the writer sums up a little background information about the artist Lady Gaga. He gives his opinion about what he believes her style is like and then finishes with a concluding sentence that persuades the reader to listen to some of her music and observe her music videos. He starts off his interview by simply stating people that he feels are similar to her in some sort of way or she has worked with, and asking her to state how she feels they have inspired her. He then moves his interview towards more detailed questions. Though his questions aren't too detailed, her answers make up for it. There is simply a short introduction and then goes straight onto the interview. Though I am comfortable with this way of writing, I prefer doing something else with mine. The interviewer asked short questions and Lady Gaga didn't take a long time to answer them. In my case, my questions were a little more detailed, and my mentor went on, sometimes for over entire pages, answering one simple question. This interview is simple and it might even be refreshing, but I am pretty sure that the crazy Lady Gaga fans that have read this were wishing that both of them had gone more in depth with the Q&A. This is why I think it would be better to go about this interview a different way.



http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/madonna/
There were a couple of things that I didn't like about this article. For starters, it had no introduction, so I didn't have much of an example for that there, but I liked the way the article introduced the interview. It started off with pictures of her. I guess a picture really does say a thousand words, if they were able to just put that in instead of an introduction. I still think it was a very clever idea because she is very herself in those pictures and I feel that the reader can get a taste of who she really is in those pictures. I also liked how they started off with what they were really saying instead of censoring it. I thought that for our interview we were only going to mention the most important parts of the interview, and though I do think that the person who edited this interview did the same thing, I thought it was very nice how they took out the things that they didn't think they needed, but they still left in the quotes from when they were greeting. They seem to be long time friends and it makes the reader seem like they are there because they are listening to exactly how the interview started off. Another thing I didn't really like about this interview is that they used too much jargon language. They mention a lot of people and assume that they both know who they are talking about, and they use acronyms that probably only they and a few other Madonna-Lovers knew. Other than this, I liked the style and the overall interview was very well edited and sounded like a conversation. Although, I'm gonna be honest and say that some of it sounded a bit scripted, though that could have also just been Madonna's classiness when she speaks.