The document discusses reception theory and how audiences interact with different songs. It analyzes Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" and how audiences use the song for escapism when going through a breakup. It also discusses the summer love song "Summer" and how its narrative targets heterosexual males by portraying an unrealistic lifestyle of cars, women and fun. Both songs influence audiences' moral principles through their messages, either positively by helping listeners shake off hurt, or negatively by increasing cockiness.

1. Luke Graham - 7 Years
The sad nature of the video crates an environment where the audience becomes dominant to what the
lyrics are saying. Reception theory supports this however, some audience member would be oppositional
as they do not believe that life can go that quickly and so they cannot understand the song. Although I
believe that this would be a younger audience that who would not be the target audience of the song
anyway. The gratification that most of the audiences would get here is identification. This is because
people will be able to identify with what the song is talking about and see their own life in flash-backs that
will induced by the song. This leads to the Hypodermic Mode where the audience cant help by be injected
with the message of the song which is really to enjoy your life and emphasizes on the fact that old age is
‘cold’ which there for makes you question your moral principles through fear. The Affect mode suggests
that it is a positive affect on the audience if they are young as the can change there lives for the better but
it could have a negative affect on older person if they have regrets about their lives. This all comes from the
message of the text.
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=LHCob76kigA

2. Tayler swifts “shake it off” is based around all of the men she has dated and been rejected by. She suggests to the
audience that all men are the same and will only hurt women but that women are strong and independent. The
audience are dominant here and even most men believe what she says. The audience use the gratification in the
narrative as a form of escapism, as it would help both men and women who have recently gone through a brake-
up try to literally ’shake it off’. They would imagen their own personal situation and then implement the song to
suit them the best. Overall the song becomes very relateable to most people passive to what they are seeing.
This then leads onto the Affect mode, the power of the song lies with the message of shake it off and the
audience will accept this witch may have a negative affect on how they view relationships. It proves that the
audience are powerless to the message as it is being injected into them without them even knowing. This will in
the long term affect their moral principles as it induce fear of hurt and rejection. As shown in the Hypodermic
mode.
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

3. Within the few lyrics that are in the song, it creates a very dominant positon over the audience. This is
because it focuses on love that was found in the summer. The narrative, rather than the performance is
the predominant facture of the video and is defiantly for the heterosexual male as it is all about cars
racing and attractive women. The audience will believe everything they are being shown and told as they
are distracted by the typical male make believe world. The use of Gratification in this video is defiantly for
escapism this is because there is no real chance of men being able to live the sort of life that the narrative
portrays however, it is also partly relatable as the lyrics are very relatable to many people if they have met
someone in the summer. This leads on the the Hypodermic mode where again most of the audience
would be powerless to the affects that it would have on their moral principles, for most it would up the
cockiness almost which in the effects mode would be considered a negative affect. On the other hand
however, is someone is very nervous then this sort of song may give them some sort of confidence which
of coerce would be a positive affect.
https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=ebXbLfL
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