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"The Baby"- Blake Shelton media type="youtube" key="LpSjt0f7qOo" height="315" width="420"

Rationale: This song is an example of a ballad. It is dramatic because his mother dies before he can make it back home to her. This is a common thing to happen to people, and its deals with how he and his mother love each other. He repeats the words "baby" and it is abrupt because it goes from telling about their love, to her dying. It has some dialogue when his mom talks to her friends about her kids, when he tells her he's a man, and when he gets a call saying to come home. There are some omitted details because it doesn't mention why he was traveling around so much or how his mother died. It is very tragic because during the song you hope that he will make it in time to see his mom, and he doesn't. He talks about how upset he was and how he was crying like a baby, and that gives us the idea of how he is hurting. He uses simple language that we use everyday.