Objectification Of Women In Music Videos

Everyday people all over the world listen to music and music videos. Whether it is on their way to class or work, while their doing homework, or even just driving around. There are so many different genres of music people listen to, from hip hop, rap, country, etc. With all of these categories of music, each song has its own purpose. Each song has its own story and meaning behind the words and/or music video. A lot of the time people will listen to a song because it is catchy and they do not realize that there is a story behind it. For this paper I decided to choose a very popular song by Pink, called fuckin perfect. In this music video it shows so many different aspects from, objectification, gender performance, and oppression. Woman in society in this video are suppose to be viewed in a certain way such as, polite, girly, and outgoing. In this music video it starts out with a young adult laying in bed when she sees her childhood teddy bear. She goes to give the teddy bear to her daughter that is laying in her own bed when she gets a flash back to when she was growing up. In the flashback it starts out to when she was a young …show more content…
In this video, there’s a couple different examples. One of them would be when it brings us towards the end of the video. After the girl in the video paints all of her paintings and brought them to her art studio she notices a guy. Her and the guy fell in love and ended up having a baby girl together. This is objectification because he didn’t try to change her at all like her mother did when she was growing up. Another example in this video for objectification would be after she had a baby girl. At the end of the video, it shows the main character of the video giving her baby girl the teddy bear she grew up with. When she gives it to her she put it in her bed and gave her a kiss goodnight. This shows how caring and loving she is towards her daughter and how much she loves