For my sociological video review I chose Bitch Better Have My Money (BBHMM) by Rhianna. I will mention this, the song and the music video did not match. Even though the music video didn’t match the song I did find interesting sociological concepts. This video showed taboo, it defined two social classes, shown deviance, she embraced her label, committed an illegitimate opportunity was even shown. I will also point out this, the whole concept of this song was owing someone money. Believe it or not the video mentioned three taboos. The first taboo was Rhianna abducted a women in the elevator and put her in a trunk. The second taboo would be her murdering a man and cutting him up in to little pieces. The third taboo would be that she tortured the woman while awaiting the woman. These are …show more content…
Rhianna had the girl she abducted drugged and naked most of the video. She was always getting high/doing other drugs and blowing things up. Last but not least she ended up murdering a man for not paying her the money she was promised for abducting his wife. It was pretty clear she wanted the world to see her inner mind. Rhianna embraced all labels that has been put on her by critics in Bitch Better Have My Money. She was labeled as a pot head, mean person and even crazy women by many people. So in the video she always getting high and abducting someone to prove that labels do not affect her. Rhianna basically wanted to prove everyone right that it doesn’t matter what you do people are always going to talk about you. Lastly she committed an illegitimate opportunity by becoming a hitman. She played as a criminal who was paid to take out some dudes wife and when the dude didn’t want to pay she ended killing him. So it was pretty clear she meant to be the bad girl whom committed crimes for money. I also inferred that somewhere along the line her fictional character life a way to success was blocked so she turned to
It all began when Piper Kerman just graduated from college with no direction in her life. During this time she met Nora, a sophisticated lesbian who Piper had a peculiar infatuation with. Nora told Piper about the extravagant life she lived because of her involvement with a West African drug lord dealing heroin. Since Kerman had nothing better planned for her life, she decided to join the business since Nora had cajoled her into it. Her role consisted of smuggling drug money for the operation, once moving over ten thousand dollars from Chicago to Brussels. This careless act that seemed innocuous to Kerman at the time ultimately landed Piper in jail on charges of money laundering in conspiracy with drug traffick...
Her tragic error is that “she partied a lot, used the drugs cocaine and meth; she was drinking while clubbing and always wanted to be the center of attention and in the spotlight for anything no matter how good or bad it was”(Lebiedzinski pg 6). This gave her and her family a bad reputation and bad press all over the news and in the newspapers. Her reputation was destroyed once people found out that she was affiliated with these bad things, doing these bad things with her life and it gave people a bad taste about her after that. She didn’t care about what kind of reputation she had because she just wanted attention for her actions. She had realized what she was doing after a
All signs in the beginning of the movie point to her personality was being mostly influenced by the environment. Examples of environmental factors include her overly affectionate parents, her rich upbringing, and no punishments for her
I think her intent for this video was to give the viewers what they want. Everyone says it all the time that sex sells; Nikki Minaj was sold. When this single was released featuring oily “asses” in a steaming jungle it was clear that she was not afraid to show off big butts. She wanted to show off the dance moves that are often recycled by artist and used to oversexualize black women. “Anaconda” welcomes these features by paring sultry imagination with empowering
She always wanted to be the center of attention, she was prejudiced and believed things should stay the same, and she was very selfish. While she thinks she’s above everyone else, she feels that the world revolves around her.
music. Listen to the radio at any given moment of time, and you’ll hear Rihanna blabbering the
and evil. These aspects are the result of plot development. In her novel, To Kill a
... As expressed in the journal, Rihanna had many thoughts on her mind and was going through so much stress, but she still had the power to gain her strength and confidence to overcome her obstacles. Critics believe that Rihanna is trying to discover herself and figure out who she really is as a person. I believe Rihanna is just putting on an act and is fooling everybody so she can make that money. Works Cited http://www.biography.com/people/rihanna-201257#personal-life&awesm=oANPh3EVI6mHEZ http://www.christianpost.com/news/rihanna-slams-journalist-over-toxic-pop-princess-criticism-admits-im-not-perfect-98756.
Her witty lyrics are not very effective when paired with the video, which results in a mere imitation of the very videos that she is mocking. Ironically, the back-up dancers are actually being objectified as sexual props, which is what Allen was disparaging in the first place. Thus, it fails in challenging the patriarchal conditions that women are forced to contend with in the music industry. Moreover, Allen never attempts to actually attack the entertainment industry in any consequential way. It is true that she skillfully calls out Robin Thicke for his dubious and controversial song, “Blurred Lines”. y walking in front of silver balloons that spell out "Lily Allen has a baggy p--sy”. She also ridicules the A&R man who tries to teach her and the dancers how to twerk. Other than that, she does try make a pointed difference in the music world. Allen could have had a group of A&R men strip down to their underwear and twerk during the entire video if she really wanted to ridicule them. To disparage the reality of the glass ceiling, she could also have set up a reversal of roles in which all of the women wear business suits and order the A&R men around. Instead, the video’s countless close-ups of breasts and buttocks prevent the video to separate itself from the rest of the music videos that show the very same images.
The 2009 film “Precious”, based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, tells the tragic story of sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones; an overweight, illiterate who is now pregnant with her second child. Her life at home is a complete nightmare; her mother, Mary, verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her daily. Her father, Carl, molested her on multiple occasions and impregnated her twice then disappeared. Precious was kicked out of public school and took an offer to attend an alternative school where she meets her inspirational teacher Miss Blu Rain. Precious begins to believe in herself and prepares herself for her future. She becomes engaged in class and learns how to read and write; she was called stupid and dummy all her life and
In the early 1980’s, women were not supposed to be open-minded or even allowed to have such sexual thoughts that Madonna inspired. Women were expected to be traditional and keep their femininity behind closed doors. When Madonna first came into the entertainment business, it was a complete shock for everyone. No one could believe a woman was capable of being a sex symbol in public. It was not Madonna’s fault that she was simply a desirable creature to everyone (Allen 5). In today’s youth, people are used to watching television and music videos since a young age. We learn from the media and it helps us to comprehend the representations that it is giving of society. Madonna became the main subject of the media and society. Since, celebrities are always focused on by the media; they have the power to impact society by showing their perspective of thoughts and images. Accord...
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In the beginning, Madonna ultimately sacrificed sexual purity. Her daring exploitation of sex from a feminine point of view was definitely a breakthrough in 1980’s American society. Often, she dressed like a man and grabbed herself in “sacred” and “unseen” places. Actions like these, as Fiske points out, presented a threat but “not the traditional and easily contained one of woman as a whore but the more radical one of woman as independent of masculinity (Fiske 284).” Young girls regarded her actions not as “tarty” or “seductive” but as completely “acceptable.” Eventually, they embraced her image and strived to follow her example of the independent and sexually licentious woman (Fiske 283).
Powerful men in the music industry always seem to be intimidated by beautiful women. They try to bash and disrespect us in front of other people to make our self-esteem low. Because, once a person loses their self-respect, then you can control them. And that what most male rapper do in the hip-hop industry. I think once a woman knows what she want in life, then nobody can break her self-esteem. She don’t have to worry about what people are saying about her. Rapper try to degrade women by calling us out of our name, calling women sluts and prostitute just to make them fill better about themselves. They think by them degrading women then people will look at them at as being strong and powerful. Rapper try to brag about how sexy there girls look or what she let him do to her. But then turn around and tell his friends that she be sleeping around. I did notice that most of the women in the video always have some type of sexual piercing. The most popular ones are tongue ring, Lip ring and Genital
The purpose behind change always has an element of attracting the paparazzi and catching people’s attention. Miley’s change was a descending process that was “creative” (Carmanica) and stimulating to the general public that did not see it coming. Miley’s change from good girl to bad girl was carefully crafted: from the initial shock of the transformation to the continuous scandals that penetrate the media, Miley has created and recreated her star text. First, Miley started off as an innocent popstar idol that sang about boys and crushes and breakups. Next, through promotion, Miley’s team worked on changing her sound and lyrical content to become sexual and free. After heavy publicity via media outlets, Miley’s new gaudy image was presented to shocked audiences with wide-ranging reactions. It was a combination of all of these elements, especially the debatable nature of her change that makes Miley a standout icon in the music