Formation Beyonce Analysis

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Before Super bowl 50, a song came out by Beyoncé, and the song was called “Formation.” There have been many arguments in the media that this song is promoting violence by how the people is the video represents the same type of clothing as the Black Panthers. After hearing and watching this song numerous times, I do not see it as a promoting violence, but fighting for a radical movement. Therefore, the song that I chose that represents an ideology is called “Formation” by Beyoncé. This song represents an ideology because it promotes feminism and encourages equality especially with black lives.

Beyoncé’s song “Formation” had an impact with the fight of feminism rights. In the song, the type of feminism that is deeply within is visionary feminism. In the music video, women are standing up against every odd. The women are fighting for a movement within the song. Beyoncé is the leading role model in the music video because she is the main star. I say she is the main star because she is placed differently than the other characters. She is telling a story in the music video. In her lyrics, she is explaining about winning and taking a
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There have been many criticisms within the media when it comes to racial equality. In the music video, Beyoncé puts hate on police violence (Hudson). In the music video, she the phrase such as “STOP SHOOTING US” (Hudson). I believe she puts this in order to take a stand about the criticism there is with the cops and shooting people, especially black people, Beyoncé also had an African American boy standing in front of an army of cops pointing a gun at him (Hudson). When the little boy put his hands up, the officers dropped their guns and joined him (Hudson). I say that this was an extremely influential topic in ideology. This is connected to the topics talked about in unit 8 Liberation Ideologies because of the influential connection with black

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