The real talent of a popular musician cannot accurately be assessed until the musician has been dead for several generations, so that his or her fame does not interfere with honest assessment.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Talent is subjective; what one defines as a talent in one century may become commonplace in the next. Although this stance may be a vague, on-the-fence one, it is at the very root of the claim. When we speak of assessing the 'real' talent of a musician, we must first consider the subjectivity of their talents. Fame is more quantifiable, and possibly can be, in fact, used as a metric when evaluating one's talent; how else would one become so famous? Incredibly rare do talentless musicians become popular.
In the field of music, talent could be defined in objective ways, such as the ability to be pitch-perfect, the degree to which the musician can transform sung songs into chords and notes for an instrument, their speed and musical cadence- but there's also many subjective aspects. How relatable is their music? Does it make a common person feel what the artist feels? This leads us to another argument, that the tastes of the 'common person' would be quite fluid through the decades; we often attribute certain sounds to different decades, like the 80's and the 2000's. There is also a lot of discussion about how some people feel that they connect more with older music, and this generally leads to a lot of online debate, due to the ways in which this is viewed as such people looking down upon the current mainstream music trends.
Hence, we must take into account who the evaluator is for such an assessment. Is the evaluator a fan? How would they gauge 'real' talent? The transience in the genres of popular music (and associated musicians) over the decades can also be interpreted as a change in what people consider as real talent. So, evaluating a viral song of the 2010's like, for instance, 'Shape of You' by Ed Sheeran, may lead to wildly different results in the decades to come, also depending on the critics who are assessing it. In fact, we've seen a shift in how people perceive Sheeran, from adoring his music and fawning over his talent when the song was viral, to now not caring much for his music, outside of his core fanbase.
So far, we've gone over how popular music trends meander through genres over the decades, and how talent is subjective. A tiny thing to keep in mind would also be: What if a musician gets involved in criminal acts, and is then severely punished by contemporary critics, who may, at this point, find a different interpretation (that may be associated with crime, etc.) of their musical works? This would be hard to navigate, as it deals with the true intentions and undertones behind the musical works in question.
Hence, assessments of a popular musician's 'real talent' would be a rather continuous process, than a discrete one. A musician's talent evolves over time, and waiting for several years to judge them would not take into account the way in which the contemporary audience appreciates or perceives them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, look, may, so, then, for instance, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2365.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74899598394 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57149898984 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516064257028 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 739.8 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.2137876824 60.3974514979 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.5 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6363636364 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.63636363636 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236711892545 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686090309226 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.052093675487 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145558047709 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459130496348 0.0667264976115 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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.