Hip Hop Music Video Analysis
Task A
People’s ideas about gender can be influencede by the portrayal of woman in hip-hop music videos. The videos that have been studied in class include; ‘Candy Shop’ by 50 cent, ‘My House’ by Flo Rida and ‘Sweat’ by Snoop Dogg. All three of these videos demonstrate women in a provocative mannar. The woman appear to all have dark skin, dark features, long legs, a toned body and big breats. In ‘Sweat’ by Snoop Dogg’s the lyrics state he is talking about a brown eyed girl, ‘I’m lookin’ in your big brown eyes…’. They wear minimal clothing to show off their hour-glass body shape to the artist of the song in the music videos and also to the audience including men and woman of all ages at home watching the video. All three songs are sung and performed by male artists and in the music videos each artist has many girls dancing over and around them suductively to please them sexually which objectifies them as a sexual object. With the women portrayed as sexual objects and surrounded by expsensive items like flash cars, big houses and champange this symbolises them as an accessory to men, which makes any male sitting …show more content…
Social justice is a value that everyone both male and female deserves equal rigths and opportunites. The three hip-hop music videos studies show unfairness in society between gender roles, woman are portrayed in an unrealistic way because everyone looks and acts different in real life and woman even all bahave different sexually. Males and females should be treated equaly so for a woman to be portrayed as a sexual object for a man this is going against the values and rights a woman holds. In society males expect respect from females so females deserve the same respect from males. As a society we have come a long way with women being treated as equals. However, these videos do not portray them as equals at
People’s ideas about gender can be influencede by the portrayal of woman in hip-hop music videos. The videos that have been studied in class include; ‘Candy Shop’ by 50 cent, ‘My House’ by Flo Rida and ‘Sweat’ by Snoop Dogg. All three of these videos demonstrate women in a provocative mannar. The woman appear to all have dark skin, dark features, long legs, a toned body and big breats. In ‘Sweat’ by Snoop Dogg’s the lyrics state he is talking about a brown eyed girl, ‘I’m lookin’ in your big brown eyes…’. They wear minimal clothing to show off their hour-glass body shape to the artist of the song in the music videos and also to the audience including men and woman of all ages at home watching the video. All three songs are sung and performed by male artists and in the music videos each artist has many girls dancing over and around them suductively to please them sexually which objectifies them as a sexual object. With the women portrayed as sexual objects and surrounded by expsensive items like flash cars, big houses and champange this symbolises them as an accessory to men, which makes any male sitting …show more content…
Social justice is a value that everyone both male and female deserves equal rigths and opportunites. The three hip-hop music videos studies show unfairness in society between gender roles, woman are portrayed in an unrealistic way because everyone looks and acts different in real life and woman even all bahave different sexually. Males and females should be treated equaly so for a woman to be portrayed as a sexual object for a man this is going against the values and rights a woman holds. In society males expect respect from females so females deserve the same respect from males. As a society we have come a long way with women being treated as equals. However, these videos do not portray them as equals at