I Ve Got Your Man Analysis

The think piece is based on the music video and lyrics of the song, “I’ve Got Your Man” sang by dancehall artist Lady Saw. She was born in Jamaica and is known as the, “Queen of Dancehall”. She started music at a young age, and started he career on local sound systems. She has sold 6 Million records worldwide with the addition of 8 albums including many singles, with all this she has also collaborated with her fellow local performers as well as international artists. She is the also the first female dancehall artist to receive the Grammy Award. With this her music has made it into several movies and advertisements to sell products. This think piece is to share my view as to how her video and song displayed gender issues, reasons behind the
The gender issue which I noticed was at the beginning of the video where the man which Lady Saw threw the card to was being slapped and verbally abused by what seemed to be his girlfriend. This is a present issue which is now being noticed within the Caribbean population. There are many cases where the male spouse is mistreated in a relationship and has nowhere to turn for guidance or help. This is due to the Caribbean society we live in today where you are expected to be a certain standard of manliness. If the roles were switched where the man is abusing the woman it would be labeled as domestic violence. In present day there are cases where when the domestic violence is reported on the male side it is not dealt with but rather ignored or the women inflict damage on them and turn the tables in their favor. As this video is about Lady Saw taking away the ‘man’ this shows that she is better than his current girlfriend. This would be the same case if the roles were switched. From history women were seen as items, they were simply for pleasuring men and not fellow work person which would compel Lady Saw to demonstrate that woman can become independent by showing they can also get to managerial status within the working quota and can easily take away someone else’s spouse as within the current society men usually do if they are part of the elite of the social
The dance scene with the couples showed a mixture of races within each relationship. The first couple was a white woman and what seemed to be someone of black decent since there was afro hairstyle displayed in the background, then the third couple was a white man with what seemed to be a woman who is mixed also known as a dougla. This displays our rich culture and how we can freely mix with each other and there is no division between anyone by simple labels such as blacks or whites. This is due to the history which we are all linked to where we were all in some type of slavery within our family