Hi and welcome to my latest IELTS video in this IELTS video we've got 25 native
type words and expressions that you can use to talk about music in the IELTS
exam many of these expressions and words you
can also news for other topics too the reason I'm showing you these is that
being able to speak in a native type way is the real key to success in the IELTS
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the internet been a good thing for musicians IELTS type 3 question part 3 I
think the answer depends on whether we're talking about emerging artists or
established stars the Internet is a promoters dream and this really helps
up-and-coming musicians to get their music out there for example they can put
their music on YouTube and use the reaction to gauge potential commercial
success then if their music goes down well with lots of people on YouTube they
can set about raising the money needed to get their music professionally
produced on a large scale by using crowdfunding websites household names by
and large don't need lots of promotion because they're already famous and these
mega stars lose lots of royalties to internet piracy so a reminder if you
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a next answer do you think pop stars can be a bad influence on young people
without doubt yes many young people have two tendencies they tend to put people
on a pedestal and they tend to be impressionable
as a result young people often ate the behavior of their heroes the bad back
a view of many pop stars is legendary this can range from cussing people helps
to drug taking and even adopting unsavory positions on all sorts of
political issues so let's have a look at the meaning of these terms emerging
artists in this case in the context of music are pop stars who are just
beginning their career say future stars that are beginning an established star
on the other hand is you know a Lady Gaga or a Madonna or like David Bowie
used to be a big star that everybody knows a promoter is somebody whose job
it is to help make something or someone popular and famous and in-demand
up-and-coming up-and-coming musicians another collocation the expression
up-and-coming means really the same kind of thing as emerging it means that
somebody is making progress from a start where not many people knew about them
they are making progress the expression to get something out there simply means
to try to popularize it to try to make it popular by putting it in places where
people can see it and begin to like it and enjoy it so in this case YouTube is
a perfect example the English verb to gauge means to look at something and try
to understand what that thing means it's to evaluate something and commercial
success another collocation which simply means to be able to sell
something a lot commercial success to get lots of people to buy something to
go down well well took the phrasal verb to go down it simply means if something
goes down well then it is received well it means people enjoyed it people liked
it the critics said it was good in this case on YouTube people liked the video
as I hope you will do to this video the phrasal verbs you set
about doing something to set about raising the money means to begin to do
something to start to do something professionally produced if something is
professionally produced then it is recorded in the case of music in a
professional way for example in a recording studio crowdfunding websites
are websites where you can ask ordinary members of the public to make small
donations to enable something to happen a household name a household name is the
same thing as an established star it's somebody that everybody knows somebody
that is famous for something by and large a very native expression which
means the same thing as in general or generally a megastar
again like David Bowie somebody who is known worldwide who enjoyed enormous
commercial success so the Beatles and The Rolling Stones also mega stars from
my country royalties royalties are payments that are made to an artist in
return for broadcasting their music for example on the radio or in a film score
the music for a film internet piracy this is when you download some music
illegally you're effectively stealing the music its internet piracy as in
whore whore the pirates from the Caribbean and things like that
tendencies your tendencies are the things that you normally or often do to
put put somebody on a pedestal means that you look up to them maybe you
almost worship them you think they are wonderful young people also tend to be
in fashionable that means it's easy to make
an impression on them it's easy to influence their behavior to ape if you
ate somebody's behavior then you copy that behavior Popstars
again simply people famous for making pop or popular music legendary the
objective from the mound legend a legend is a great story and the bad behavior of
pop stars has created legends or legendary stories ah so depending on
your point of view they are either amazingly good or amazingly bad some of
these stories about the behavior of pop stars to cuss somebody out another
phrasal verb it means to swear at somebody using a word like shit for
example if you adopt or take an unsavory position on something it means that your
view or your opinion on something is something that most people would think
is disgusting and revolting for example those people that deny the Holocaust
that say that the Holocaust did not happen
finally the collocation political issues a political issue is simply something
that is political but that is debated where there is a lot of debate about
what should or shouldn't be done about something so again I hope you enjoyed
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