In this music video, “Scars to Your Beautiful”, Alessia Cara skillfully illuminates her message that everyone is beautiful. Cara uses both ethos and pathos to help get her message out to her audience. Cara wants people who feel put down by society to know that it is okay to be different and love the scars they have. At the start of the music video, Cara is standing in plain white room, in a plain outfit, which can lead you to believe that she is just an ordinary person, in an ordinary place and nothing extremely special. Then the video cuts to all of the different speakers, who all say their names, and the camera goes back in forth from them to Cara, making you know that they are important to getting the message across to the audience. All …show more content…
All of the speaker’s in the video open up and tell how they were bullied and that they learned that you must ignore society and love yourself. This really evokes a feeling of optimism because you here what these people went through and faced, and they were able to come out on top. The lyric “She says beauty is pain, and there is beauty in everything, what a little bit of hunger?” evokes a feeling of anger that men and women feel the need to starve themselves, so that they feel worthy. One of the speaker’s says “The things that seem like weaknesses that make you strange, when you become an adult you find that they are you greatest strengths.” and this allows the audience to feel hopeful. The lyric “No better you than you than the you that you are.” by Cara truly sums up that she wants the audience to know that there is no better you than you. This music video and the song “Scars to Your Beautiful”, by Cara, also does a good job of having ethos, or credibility. Cara was bullied as a child, and she knows how it feels to not fit in with society’s version of “perfect.” . The speaker’s throughout the video all have their own stories to tell about how they got their scars, as well as how they make them feel. This allows the audience to know that they are not just people pretending to understand, they truly