Masculinities: A Song Analysis

Some say music is the key to the soul, and the way music is turning in recent years many believe it is making a turn for the worse. Ten years ago with songs like, “We belong together” by Mariah Carey and “Let me love you” by Mario showed more thought and substance when it came to the concept of love and intimacy. The songs created in past years showed more conservation and used clever metaphors to insinuate sexual relations, rather than blatantly stating it. In more recent years, with songs like “No role Modelz” by J. Cole and “Trap Queen” by Fetty Wap it is shown that although the song may not be about relationships and sexual relations in its entirety, but always has a reference or explicitly states one of the two concepts throughout the …show more content…
The first thing that the participants demonstrated was how their commitment to their musical aspirations posed a challenged to the normal growth of their masculinities (Ramirez 2012). With reports from the participants families, such as their peers, parents and families. They came to conclusion that with the lifestyle of a musical career did not allow the participants to become full or normal adults as more fulfilling jobs would have done. The second aspect they were assessed on were the consequences that their musical commitment brought along. More specifically how they incorporate their masculinities within their music and their musical contexts (Ramirez 2012). For this study they came to the conclusion that men use their music as a way to play with their more inventive or different general gender identities; but they still remain and conforms to general societies assumptions about their masculinities according to their …show more content…
The researchers also asses is after the participants are exposed to the stimulus, will they be able to cognitively process TV commercials. This study was carried out by have a between-design post-test only design with two groups (Carpentier 2014). Groups one watched music videos high in female objectification and the second group watched music videos without high female objectification. Both groups were then given tests with eight questions per video. After the videos and the questionnaire the participants viewed three- thirsty second videos to assess cognitive evaluations. As for the results of this study, the researchers came to the conclusion that the videos hurt the participant’s ability to encode visual I formation for Television commercials, but did not hurt their ability to draw accurate data from form the same commercials (Carpentier