This document summarizes and analyzes three magazine articles about music artists. The Rolling Stone article describes Stevie Nicks using expressive language to portray her uniqueness and storytelling abilities. The Q Magazine article about Lana Del Rey uses dark and descriptive language to portray her emotional state and appearance. The DJ Magazine biography of Per Martinsen uses expressive language like "legendary" and "godfather" to portray his influence in electronic music and status as a legend in an informal tone appealing to younger readers.

1. Rolling Stone
The language in this text seems formal. The
repetition of “I” means that this article is talking about
their experience of listening to Stevie Nicks. It also
uses a range of expressive vocabulary such as
“angelic”, “pure” and “mystique” to describe her and
her music. The writer chooses to make her as unique
as she uses the word “storyteller” to make her feel
like she’s telling you a story in one of her songs. in
the headings, the superlative “best” has been used
twice and this emphasises that this singer must be a
musical legend. the ideal audience for this part of the
text is aimed at adults aged 30 and over as this page
reminisces about a late singer from their childhood.

2. Q Magazine
It uses descriptive language when it is
describing Lana Del Rey’s appearance: it says that
she appears as “demonic” in her “white slip
dress”with “blood running down”. This language
seems to have a dark tone to it because it describes her as
a ghost “mourning”. she uses hedging by saying “that”
which makes her response a bit too confusing.
She then responds fully “that’s my life”- the singer
might have said something personal about herself.
From this part of a double page spread, I can learn
that the writer uses powerful vocabulary by the words “bruised”
and “broken”. this could convey the singer’s emotional state. In
my opinion, I find this page clever as it full of devices used
to make it look very interesting for readers to. When I will be
in the process of making my own double page spread, i will
use this as an inspiration when i write a particular story that will
interest my target audience.
In this part of the same double page spread,
the writer is talking about their second
encounter with Lana, they decide to use the
descriptive tone from the first column. she is
wearing a ‘white crop top and jeans”. the writer
could be implying her latest fashion trend but it could
possibly the
way she dresses daily. there is also expressive
language: Lana is “bright, engaging and unfailingly
sweet”. they are trying to convey her in a positive light.
I think that the audience admire a singer because
of the way they’re portrayed; it depends on what other
people or other celebrities think of them.

3. DJ Magazine
this page is mostly filled with a biography
about this DJ called Per Martinsen or as known as
Mental Overdrive. It
also contains some quotations from him but it
also highlights his songs such as “Everything Is
Connected” which is his second album. I can see
some expressive language such as “legendary”
and “godfather” to imply his relationship with
electronic music and that he is a “major influence”
to everyone who listens to his music but also describes
him as a legend. the title “Makin’ Noise” appears in every
issue when there’s an exclusive news coming up. I
believe that this language is informal in order to appeal
to the younger audience who read this. I will try to avoid
making my magazine look dull and very wordy which
would put them off from reading it. This page is very interesting
as it is only focusing on the DJ’s point of view. He doesn’t
use that much complex vocabulary as it says so on his
quotations which emphasises the simplicity of the magazine.
when I get the chance to write my double page spread, I will
make sure that I don’t use too much words that my readers
will find difficult to understand.
According to me, i think the appropriate audience
for this spread is mostly for teenagers aged 16-18 years and adults
in their late 20s. The reason for this is that some of their target
audience might have took an interest in this DJ whether before or after
the 90s ended. This also makes this DJ relevant in today’s music.