Analysis Of Beyonce Knowles 'Song If I Were A Boy'

Prince Royce is mainly trying to say that people should not judge or be judged by their physical appearance but by what they have and feel in their hearts. This song is trying to capture women who think they are not good enough. They think of themselves as something lower and have difficult time to see themselves but rather see what they don’t have. They feel not beautiful and have low self esteem. He also tells that he also is not perfect and that love never see faces but hearts.

Robin Thicke’s music video to his song “Blurred Lines” avidly contributes to the patriarchy, while portraying sexism, gender standards, and beauty standards. His music video can be analyzed from a feminist theory approach, as it’s evident that his song and video contribute to a patriarchal society and its inherently sexist and sexualized ideologies. The ideology behind the song and music video is purely sexual and about male dominance. The lyrics to the song and actions in the video exhibit extreme over sexualization and objectification of the women. Analyzing this piece of popular culture through a feminist approach opens up a provoking conversation about how popular culture functions in a patriarchal culture. Analyzing pop culture though a feminist theory can allow for a larger variety and more in-depth analysis about the social aspects and political agenda within popular culture.

Rap music in general has failed miserably in portraying the true worth of a woman. Women have a character that men cannot replace in any other way. “Behind every great man, there is a great woman,” and I strongly believe this because it is very applicable in my life as well. I can say that my mother plays an important role in my life, and she stood behind my success till now. Being an international student in this country takes a lot of courage, but the support and encouragement from my mother has helped me every step of the way. She is able to do things that a man cannot do; to be the nurturing, caring, patient, loving, and protective woman she can be to her children and her family.

The main purpose of Beyoncé’s songs is to emphasise feminism and invigorate gender equality through her lyrics. She does so by using by conveying feminist philosophy in her lyrics. In Run the World, Beyoncé sings “strong enough to bear the children, then get back to business.” Figurative language is used to express be that women give birth however then after they proceed to work. Throughout the song used is both repetition and rhetorical question as this is how Beyoncé portrays the women empowerment theme, domination as well as confidence in her tone whilst preaching the line “Girls, we run this motha (yeah!)” and “Who run the world? Girls!”. Having expressed the line “My persuasion can build he nation” Beyoncé is building women up by speaking

The tone of this song is hopeful. It tells women of all ages to stay true to themselves, even when everyone else around them is changing. This is mostly relatable to teenagers attending high school. In the song it says, “Hold on to your innocence, stand your ground when everyone’s giving in”. During high school, children are introduced to various new things, such as: drugs, sex, and alcohol. It is the students’ personal choice whether to give in to these new additions or not, but the song suggests they stand up even when everyone else around them has given in. The song has three stanzas with four lines. The rhyme scheme is grouped into pairs, rhyming the first two lines and the last two lines in each stanza. Rhyming two consecutive lines can make the song easier to remember. “This One’s for the Girls” is extremely catchy, not only by its meaning, but also its rhyme scheme. It makes an imprint on one’s brain.

In an article called ‘ladies first’: Queen Latifah’s Afrocentric feminist music, it talks about issues raised by feminist rap; rap that focuses on women’s importance, and the demand for equal treatment, and for the need to encourage each other. “Queen Latifah's feminism draws on the patterns of rap to assert the importance of women promoting themselves and other women. Rap, like all other forms of popular music, is not inherently feminist, but in this genre, as in other popular genres, female performers use specific generic qualities to promote a feminist message. Rap is noted for its emphasis on lyrics, and through the lyrics, female rappers make explicit assertions of female strength and autonomy.” Women talk about how they need to be seen as equal to a man through their lyrics and for women to encourage other women. That will push back the negativity from the male rappers toward the female rappers. For an example in a song called U.N.I.T.Y by Queen Latifah she said “Every time I hear a brother call a girl a b*** or a h*, trying to make a sister feel low, you know all of that got to go” Throughout her song she is letting male rappers know that they can’t be calling women those types of names, no matter what. Through time, the hip hop community is and will keep pushing back the misogyny and violence that rap

In her chorus she also says "Run and hide your crazy and start actin' like a lady/ Cause I raised you better, gotta keep it together/ Even when you fall apart. " This to me makes me feel like society holds women up to a higher standard, where we always have to act like ladies and be ok. I feel as if we cannot show our emotions because we have to live up to that standard of society. We always need to act like ladies and be ladylike, when in reality there are times we want to go crazy.

While reading Mary Pipher’s, “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls” and Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson’s, “Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys,” I got a better understanding of the mindsets of teenagers in todays society. I learned that countless girls and boys have the same inner battles and do not even realize it. The two songs I chose that best represent ideas of woman and manhood are “Unpretty,” by TLC and “Stan,” by Eminem. I believe these songs support many of the stereotypes portrayed in both of the class readings and hold strong messages that can impact the views of girls and boys alike. They address many struggles that teenagers today may be going through but afraid of speaking about openly.

“Girl On Fire” by Alicia Keys is an empowering song wrote to emphasize the strength in women of all jobs. Alicia Keys, who has always promoted female empowerment, wrote this song to explain how she was feeling in a woman in this society. Within the song and the music video, the song talks about a women who really has the typical “female” job. She is a mom who takes care of her kids, cleans, and really runs the household. The message, however is not shaming women who are in this role. Instead, the song speaks of how women are strong no matter what role they play in the world. Keys speaks about how we live in this world where women are so oppressed, but because we are so strong, we are going to stand our ground and fight for what we believe in

The context of this song develops a strong social, historical and cultural environment of this song and background of what was going for people to understand and appreciate about what Lady GaGa is trying to inform others about. The social environment of the song is that people keep rejecting and bulling others for their gender or sexuality as well as the historical environment of the song is that people’s colour or religion has been used against them and they have been put into slavery and low positions in the world. Finally the cultural environment of the song is people and colours, marriage and gender. The background of the song is people have rejected people though out time who want to marry the same gender as them and slavery cause by people colour which was what happened to cause Born This Way to be written. This message is still relevant at the moment as people are still being effect by it but people are

Music is known to be one of the most universal forms of self expression. Artists from different genres provide different models for expressing gender identity through their music.

Girls and women do not have the same meaning. Patriarchy is shown through the word girls as being portrayed to be a young girl who is not yet grown up. Through Beyonce’s words she is showing that mature and civilized women can't run the world, but young and immature girls can.

In this song she mentions “I'm just a girl, what's my destiny?” (No Doubt) This shows how sarcastic she is by basically saying what is my goal in life if I’m just a girl. Feminism also has created this thought of women not being equal to men. It also says “Oh I'm just a girl, my apologies What I've become is so burdensome.”

Beyonce Knowles is an artist who has been very active in the media for at least a decade now. She began her career as a vocalist in the R&B group Destiny’s Child and rocketed her career from there. Many of the songs Beyoncé [is clearly in support of] promote feminism and girl power which is no secret; one in particular, “If I were a Boy,” written in 2007, directly calls out the patriarchal views associated with heterosexual relationships. The song represents the type of relationships represented not only in the media but realistically speaking as well. Beyonce used her platform to challenge social injustices not only by singing this song but also her performance and message via the music video to it. One thing to note are the specific lyrics that suggest dominant gender roles and though it was done as a means to promote

To begin with, Robin Thicke portrays gender stereotypes in “Blurred Lines” in many different ways. He talks about men and women, and the way they are looked upon. The beginning of the song says, “Okay, now he was close/ Tried to domesticate you/ But you're an animal/ Baby, it's in your nature/ Just let me liberate you/ You don't need no papers/ That man is not your mate/ And that's why I'm gon' take you.” Robin is trying to act like girls are animals who get taken advantage of. The way I see it is, he is saying that the guy