“GoodBye Earl” by the Dixie Chick’s is a song that was produced by Blake Chancey. The song explains a violence situation that between a husband and wife. The main characters are Earl the husband, Wanda the wife, and Mary Anne Wanda’s best friend. In the beginning of the song, it explains that Mary Anne and Wanda were best friends, all through their high school days.…
Seeing as I worked at Boise Fry Company for a year, I can absolutely tell about what the yams are. Contrary to popular belief real yams are not sweet potatoes! Yams are the orange fries that you get at most restaurant, yams are a fibrous potato that have both a sweet and savory flavor. Sweet potatoes on the other hand are a thicker sweeter and smoother potato, these take longer to cook so you are not likely to get these in most restaurant. But while these may be what Yams are I don’t think that these are the same “Yams” that Kendrick Lamar is talking about is his song “King Kunta” on the album…
The interviewee, Sam, stated his favorite genre of popular music is rap. Sam was introduced to rap in middle school so roughly in 2009-2010. Although Sam was first introduced to rap in 2009-2010 the word rap has been around for quite some time (Mize para. 2). Originally, rap meant to strike or to hit(Mize para.…
In the minute (00:43), the video first introduces Teresa through a medium angle shot that shows her shaking her chest while wearing a low-cut shirt. Teresa is sexualized through the minimal amount of clothing she wears and by bringing the viewer’s attention to her body and chest. Unlike the lyrics that targeted a wide range of audiences, this image appeals to heterosexual men and encourages scopophilic that brings them pleasure from “[...] using another person as an object of sexual stimulation through sight” (Mulvey 383). This power dynamic create Mulvey’s Male Gaze and establishes dominance over the observed subject. In minute (01:12), the camera creates a close shot of only Teresa’s exposed stomach and makes a jump cut to a medium shot that only focuses Teresa’s bare legs seen through her short mini-skirt while none of these shots show her face .…
This video is aimed towards showing homosexuals as dangerous people, and how they cannot be trusted. The director doesn’t show how straight people prey on young kids more often than homosexuals. This film has no back up or a claim to what it is presiding, it is stating random facts in which they believe to be true. This film lacks credibility, and the film is extremely biased and showcases homosexuals as a threat or a virus that will be caught if not careful. This film tries to make everything about homosexuals a bad thing, that being homosexual is dangerous and that you should go near one.…
Misogynistic lines such as, ‘Slut, you think I wont choke no whore til the vocal chords don’t work in her throat no more?’, conveys that a women’s voice has no significance in society and should be silenced with force. These lyrics employ misogyny to legitimize domestic violence and highlight that women should be compliant and domesticated by men. Women feel disempowered by the song as it creates an ‘ideology that reduces women to objects for men’s ownership, use or abuse.’ (Cundiff, 2013). Overall the song interprets the negative notion of a man’s suppressive and hostile actions towards a…
Talysa Taylor GSWS 391 12 November 2015 Media Analysis #2 From Baartman to Ford: Black Female Bodies as Commodities The portrayal of black female bodies in media is often linked to their oppression based on the intersectionally between race and gender. Specifically, in Hip Hop black female bodies are often controlled under white patriarchal power. Images of black women as sexual savages and sexual commodities have historically been justified through mass media’s consistent representation of the jezebel stereotype through institutions like the government, education, and media.…
This theory explains how females are treated as instruments of sexual pleasure, disregarding the person’s dignity and personality. This quite apparent throughout the song whereby the girl is addressed only because of her body, Nelly in the song makes the girl seem like an object when he makes her aware that the only time engaging a female is worthwhile is when she offers sex at the end of the day. By saying this he singles out sexual gratification as the only purpose the opposite gender exist for, in the video he goes as far as swiping an ATM card in her backside depicting as a purchasable commodity. From a journal by clinical psychologists once a woman’s body or bod parts are separated from her as a person and she is viewed as object of desire this sums up sexual objectification (E. Carr, L. Moffit, D. Szymanksi, 2011). According to them this can cause negative effects to women creating a physical standard women feel they must attain or females diminishing their potential to only sexual…
Beautiful by Eminem According to the fans, this song is considered as one of the strongest song of relapse. He was on drugs when he had written this song, we get to know this from his lyrics. He expresses his feelings telling that the addiction he had towards drugs made him go into depression, and he felt trapped. But towards the end of the song he tells his fans that he has hope for the future and he is optimistic.…
Girls run the world! That is what Beyoncé Knowles-Carter proposed in her 2011 single “Run the World (Girls)”. A music video, starring Beyoncé as the leader of a band of women, confronting and conquering a rival band of men, was released alongside the song. Since its release, the video has garnered over 280 million views and received critical praise for its inspiring message (Wieselman). While it is true that Beyoncé’s song delivers an unapologetic message of women empowerment, this message obscures underlying racism and sexism within the video and lyrics.…
Beyoncé’s “***Flawless” comes from her self-titled album “Beyoncé” which was published in 2013. This song was primarily responsible for re-establishing a new understanding of the term “Feminism” and what it means to be a feminist in our generation. In this text, the depiction of women is mostly represented through the artist herself. Moreover, one can typically claim that women in the text are depicted as independent, strong and beautiful. This is evident through the agency of the unyielding lyrics and the prodigious music video.…
The popularity of a song like “Blurred Lines” demonstrates just how absentminded the population is to the indecent music of today. It gives a sense of how artists view what role women play in society; to give men what they want. Gay is trying to show through her text that belittling woman’s value makes society believe that sexism is normal and should be accepted.…
This lyric is saying that they should be looking at her confidence (cocky fresh). Two examples that fit the same mold are, “I’m so possessive so I rock his rock necklaces” and “When he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster, ‘cause I slay”. Both of these lines are embodying feminism because they are…
Charlie: Well, I agree with Ms. Grey. Some of the lyrics are clearly inappropriate to be said. However, I understood completely that “Blurred Lines” purpose is to create a visual imagery of sexual actions. Although, Mr. Thicke could have changed the inappropriate words to something far more appropriate. Chris: Could you give us an example?…
When we compare how men and women are different based on societal views, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Do you say to yourself, ‘Hm, that’s a tough one’, Or ‘Men and women aren’t really that different.’? Ask yourself this: If you were the opposite gender, how would you act? Beyoncé’s main goal was to answer this exact question in her music video for her hit song ‘If I were a Boy’. Beyoncé is a well renowned activist for feminism most commonly known for her empowering lyrics and talented voice, which has earned her 53 award nominations and 20 Grammys.…