Mushaboom, Feist

Helping the kids out of their coats

But wait the babies haven't been born
Unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups


But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay


Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old


I got a man to stick it out
And make a home from a rented house
And we'll collect the moments one by one
I guess that's how the future's done

How many acres how much light
Tucked in the woods and out of sight
Talk to the neighbours and tip my cap
On a little road barely on the map


Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
Old dirt road
Rambling rose
Watching the fire as we grow
Well I'm sold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYF0qU5WSew

ARGUMENT:
A: Having dreams
B: will allow you to get through less than desirable circustances
Reason: Becuase dreaming of a better future can give you the hope necessary to attain it.
IA: Whatever gives you the hope necessary of attaining a better future will help you get through less than desirable times.

AUDIENCE:
Even though the singer is speaking of personal experience, the audience consists of those who are living less than their dream life.  More specifically I think the audience most attracted to the message of the song are those who are in her same position, working day by day trying to earn enough to make a life in that perfect dream house somewhere.  Her audience has ideals, goals, desires.  Even in the style and content of her video, it is suggested that her audience wants something out of the ordinary to happen in their lives, like dancing in the street and turning a normal day into a parade, or stepping into a closet and stepping out of a freezer into a carnival somewhere else.  Maybe they'd like changing their circumstances to something better to be that easy.

HOW THE ARGUMENT IS MADE:
This video apeals to the emotions, making the impossible possible; making a reality of things that we only silently imagine and laugh to ourselves about. I think her audience would be able to relate to waking up in a place you can't exactly call ideal and wanting to be free enough to fly away from it and escape, even if it is just to the street outside where a group of strangers will randomly start dancing in unison to a song you're singing. Though her video is a little random (not entirely portraying what she is describing in her song), I believe it is relevant because it portrays a dream world come to life, which is exactly what the singer is hoping for.

GOAL:
I think her goal is to show her audience that dreams are real. She creates a dream world in her video suggesting that the dreams of the audience can also become reality.

EFFECTIVE?
Absolutely.  If her audience interprets her video like I did, then it is an effective portrayal of far off dreams becoming reality.