Why Do You Belong With Me

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The American Singer-Songwriter, Taylor Swift co-produced the one hit wonder ‘You belong with me’. The song released in 2009 became one of the most influential songs to join the genre of country pop; it appears on the album ‘Fearless.’ The American Rap artist, 50 Cent sung the hit ‘Candy Shop.’ ‘Scott Storch’ originally wrote the song; released in 2005 on the album ‘The Massacre.’ It hit number one in the hip-hop chart.
“You Belong with me” is aimed at young females aged 11-18 and in any social-economic group; majority c group which is working class. The young females may take consideration to this if they are into country pop or alternative artist who produces songs surround by this genre, they may also enjoy romantic comedies, romantic films and chick flicks. Simultaneously why “You belong with me” is a hit with the younger generation of females is that the male actor is appealing towards the audience of females. This is because females around that age group start looking for relationships or are in same situation as the protagonist. In addition to all this, young females may
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The young males listen to this if they watch action/seductive films. Young males have an interest into video games like GTA, which could be the reason why the song is popular with them. Another reason why young males may listen to this is that they listen to either Kiss or MTV. In addition to this, young males have a stereotype of wearing baggy clothes just like the protagonist in the video. It is also has anti-stereotypes because not every teenage male enjoys action films or even wearing baggy clothes. Baggy clothes have connotations of thugs and people who cause trouble. This helps the stereotypes of the video because in society today people’s point of views is that every male teenage are thugs but in reality they are not it is just their

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