Alecia Beth Moore's Stupid Girls

In her article “The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto: Negotiating Spaces for Women,” Imani Perry argues that the objectification of women in the music industry is normalized in our society. Her purpose is to persuade us that most feminists who fight against the objectification and exploitation of women are ultimately colonized by the sexual fantasies of men. As a law professor at Rutgers Law School, Perry structures her text in a very effective manner. Using a general-to-specific organization scheme, she begins by outlining the recurring image of sexualized women in music videos, then presenting various cases of prominent feminist figures in the music industry.

Music is one of the most influencing media within our time and generation, especially Rap and hip-hop. Demoralizing women has

What does being beautiful really mean? It is the possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, or think about. It goes way beyond the looks but what is within. The media seems to have a different view on beauty. The concept to tell someone what they are or what they should be, is what the media exhibits to society with ideal females known as “models.” In Curtis Sittenfeld, “Your Life as a Girl,” she describes the life as a female and the way they are being viewed. Although all females are beautiful, they feel like they need to appear a certain way to be categorized as such. Living in a world where others opinions are more powerful than one’s own, makes it harder for women to actually consider themselves as being beautiful.

Throughout history men and women have played different roles in music. Today is no different. With the development of the music video, these different roles were magnified. From rap to country, men and women play roles. DreamWorlds 3: Sex, Desire, and Power in Music Video explores the world of music video. Women are seen as sex symbols that simply must have sex and will submit to any fantasy that a man may have. This is mostly displayed in rap music. DreamWorlds 3 also talks about the language used. Again, it is mostly displayed in rap, and the language is very vulgar. Country music is different. According to research by Julie Andsager

An issue many have with Hip Hop music is it over-sexualisation of black women. Within hip hop music videos and the lyrics used to define women, are often portrayed in ways that calls for them to sexually satisfy men. Hunter and Soto (2009), highlighted that women in hip hop music are often characterised as sex workers. Their study coincides with Miller-young (2008), who argued Hip-Hop music has an obsession with portraying women as strippers in their song. She pointed out that Hip-Hop music is extremely misogynistic with males being shown as pimps whilst females are shown involved in sexual acts. This shows that within Hip-Hop music males are shown to be the dominating sex. This can impact on women negatively due to the fact hip-hop has become

Introduction Music is something that is supposed to inspire people and bring hope. Today the type of music teens listen and feed their mind is not only degrading of women but redefines self-worth and human beings in a negative way. One of many singers and songwriters, Alecia Beth Moore stands out on her own in the pop music industry. Alecia Moore, better known as Pink exemplifies a new age worldview because of the belief in self, belief in reincarnation, and the different shifting commitments. Background and History First of all, Alecia Beth Moore is not only a singer, songwriter, but also an actress that has changed the scope of pop music.

Within popular culture today, objectified female bodies can be represented everywhere from advertising images to magazine covers, television, music and many more. Through these media institutions, we allow them to construct social identities in ways that allow us to understand what it means to be black, white, Asian, male or female etc. Within many popular culture mediums such as music, stereotypical representations of racially marked female bodies are often formed. Thus, these representations also have the ability to create stories about a certain culture. In music videos, it does not go unnoticed that women are portrayed as objects whose objectives are to pleasure men. In this paper, I will argue how racially marked female bodies are represented. This paper will mainly focus on how these racially marked women are depicted in the hip hop culture. To demonstrate this, I will draw examples by using award winning music videos by Nicki Minaj, R.Kelly, 50 cent to exemplify representations of the female body and how they are objectified as sex objects. In conclusion, we will be able to see how the female bodies are used in mainstream hip hop videos to convey seductively.

“I Enjoy Being a Girl” (music videos and women’s capitalist role as primary consumers and sexualized objects)-

It is clear that hip-hop music and music videos objectify women; however, there have been feminist movements that have begun reducing this sexualization.

Many rap and ‘cool’ songs are about men using women and having absolute control over them as if they were property. Most songs refer to females in a derogatory fashion to assert subordination. Some songs tell stories of how beating up women makes men more powerful. These songs influence society’s perception of women as a whole. When they are exploited because of the sexually charged, male-dominant worldview, women are held back from realizing their full potential as strong, respected, smart human beings.

Although music videos contain a variety of musical styles, they have many common visual themes that inaccurately portray famous artists. These themes are the degradation of women, and the promiscuity of men. Many of videos display women as sexual objects to be looked at while they rhythmically dance to the beat of the song. Women are not the only dancers though; men can often be seen grinding against many different women throughout the same song. This implies that

Her frequent visiting of the clubbing scene was actually how she got noticed. She landed a Friday night singing spot at Club Fever. A talent scout spotted her there one night and signed her up for an R&B group. The R&B group quickly fell apart, but Pink was determined, and was able to find another group to join. That second group was picked up by LaFace Records, and eventually the label signed Pink as a solo artist and her first album Can't Take Me Home was produced.

The development of visual media has introduced the concept of The Male Gaze Theory. The Male Gaze Theory is defined as how women are depicted in the media from a male perspective, such as presenting women as sexual objects for men’s pleasure (Loreck). The article, inexplicitly, talks about the male gaze: “Up to 81% of music videos contain sexual imagery, the majority of which sexually objectifies women by presenting them in revealing clothing, as decorative sexual objects, dancing sexually, or in ways that emphasize body parts or sexual readiness.” The article talks about how women are sexually presented in the media which is what the male gaze encompasses the “male gaze” is a harmful contribution to the sexualization of girls and is also seen throughout the music video. The beginning of the music video shows 50 Cent walking into a brothel-type mansion where the camera pans to focusing on the writhing, half-naked women in the foyer of the mansion. This scene is viewed from a male’s perspective because the camera focuses on their sensual movements and physical assets instead of their normal facial expressions or more appropriate places on their body. Also, since 50 Cent is the only male in the mansion, the camera is only coming from a male perspective because brothels are only truly for a male’s pleasure. The other women in the video are objectified from their revealing clothing

Women face many challenges daily, and sometimes its too difficult to handle and we just need break and listen to music. There is one problem though, sexism is also in music.

Before examining sexism in the different genres, I’d like to take an in depth look at the visual side of the music industry. Music is an auditory medium, but there is an obvious visual side to its market as well. Music videos became popular back in the early 80’s thanks to MTV. Steven A. Seidman wrote an article titled “Profile: An investigation of sex‐role stereotyping in music videos”, in which he conducted a study, and discovered that male characters were portrayed as adventuresome, domineering, aggressive, violent, and victimize, while females were depicted as affectionate, dependent, nurturing, and fearful than males. He also found that a large percentage of female characters wore revealing clothing and that they initiated and received sexual advances more often than males. (Seidman) What type of message does this send to the general public? And how does this portrayal influence individuals? Another study aiming to answer