Rihanna Research Paper

'If it is a mistake it is my mistake',Rihanna is a well know star from all over the world for about 12 years. Rihanna became a start because her unique singing. Although, this is not the only reason. She has made many songs that have became number 1 hits. She has the most like and followed pages. Also Rihanna knows what genre fits her voice type.In 2003 when Rihanna was 15 a teen one of her friends introduced her to a famous music producer. The music producers name was Evan Rogers.Evan noticed her talent and him and his partner Carl Sturken helped her record her first song.Her first son was sent to various companies. Jay z who is a famous rapper signed her to def jams. When Jay Z heard her sing, he was impressed. He noticed she had great potential he was extremely convinced she was a good singer.This is how she became extremely successful in the music industry. As of today Rihanna is still one of the most well known singers. She usually go by the name of RiRi or Caribbean Queen.She changed the world with her unique voice. Also she became well known for her signing and fashion.She donated money to charity and also helped the unprivileged.

Her clothes accentuate her cleavage or have a sexual shock factor, such as wearing “sequined pasties…[that] coordinate with the rest of her attire”. The vulgar, sexual nature of her raps makes it impossible for her to not receive attention from the media. Another artist, Eve, dresses sexually to accentuate her body and appears in videos with music video models but raps about social issues like domestic violence. By comparing the nature of these artists and their music, Perry tries to show that young girls have very few role models in hip hop that promote positive feminists values and body images. But, she neglects to discuss other feminist artists she mentions in the essay such as Destiny’s Child and Mary J. Blige and how their lyrics and actions in the media allow young black girls to have positive role models that show a woman can be independent, strong, and beautiful in their own way. Perry’s focus on the more sexualized female artists in hip hop and how their shocking appearance and lyrics allow them to be as successful as their male counterparts took away from the development of her argument about conservative artists and their success. By leading the reader to believe that artists are either overly-sexual or conservative, Perry limits how the reader forms an opinion on why or why not young girls’ body image may be threatened by the media and the hip hop

Though this study was conducted in 2007 (and social media has progressed exponentially since then), the paper still offers an interesting discussion on how black adolescent girls are informed (or not in some cases) by dominant images of women within hip-hop-influenced pop culture and the ways in which they seem to either internalize these images and/or resist them. She writes that “although some Black women artists assert agency and resist derogatory representations of Black female sexuality, young Black women are often sexually objectified and portrayed in passive roles in popular rap, R&B, dancehall songs, and music videos” (Stokes 2007: 171). Stokes further works to understand the effects of such objectification by looking at the content produced by (self-proclaimed) black adolescent girls on youth-oriented websites. Using sexual scripting theory as a base, she argues that there were six pervasive scripts “with roots in controlling images of black female sexuality”: Freaks, Virgins, Down Ass Chicks/Bitches, Pimpettes, and resisters (Stokes 2007: 175). As some might argue (including myself) that it is problematic to categorize something as complex as sexuality, she notes that these scripts often overlap, are not necessarily

He wants his audience to understand that the music video’s messaging is that the most important aspect of a woman is her

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.

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.

For nearly twenty years, Beyoncé has lived her life in the public eye yet she has always kept her cool, been submissive, and rather quiet when it came to her personal endeavors however after releasing the film “Lemonade”, we are able to see her in a vulnerable light. In Jeremy Helliger’s article: “Dear Beyhive: Stop Whining. Beyoncé Still Hasn’t Earned Her Album Of The Year Grammy” he addresses the idea that although Beyoncé was able to encourage black women to be proud and free, she also she missed the mark by adding raunchy, over the top content to her vulnerability.

This includes standards of beauty, empowerment, culture, and the shared parts of our history. The message that Beyonce is trying to convey to us is that there are real issues going on that are constantly being ignored. She is also stating that if no one else will voice their opinions on these issues then she will. As I analyzed the position that I received was discrimination to African American culuture, police brutality, tragedy, and cultural pride. I agree with the message behind this video/song. For many years cultural issues have been ignored and failed to be solved due to political

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.

The persistence of these problematic ideas within western popular culture has transformed black beauty standards in ways that empowers, but also, subverts black women back into these dominant narratives surrounding their buttocks. This is commonly displayed by popular R&B artist Beyoncé, who uses her large backside to market her performances and shows in order to increase her audience, and thus, her revenue. While some may argue that this may be counterproductive when challenging these westernized subjugations as it once again commodifies the black body, these sexualized articulations attempt to “serve as both economic and symbolic markers of black femininity that define her image,” Aisha Durham writes in her article, “Beyoncé, Southern Booty,

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

The logic behind this music video is that the women are the candy in the candy shop and they’re telling 50 Cent to pick his favorite candy out of all the women in the house. This is very degrading to all the women in the music video because he’s basically saying I don’t care who you are or what your name is I’m just going to pick one of you to please me. 50 Cents image he gets from this music video though is masculinity and how rich and inferior he is to the women while they walk around in nothing and he walks around in fur coats. The music video teaches the audience that this is a normal thing to do when you have this much power as someone who can basically purchase these women along with his expensive clothes and

In the video, Minaj strikingly shakes her own booty, wiggling it both under her own control and on its own from its girth. There are also those bikini women shaking their own things, both in the jungle and against a blank white background on chairs, making it more vividly clear. Minaj goes on to show her hourglass figure in another scene of the video, she appears to be working out and only in a thong, bra and sneakers. The video then shows Minaj in a kitchen where she peels a banana, looks at it admiringly and then tosses it away. What is the message here? Males, it represents a male’s genitals. Remember, there is absolutely no male presence. Even with booty everywhere, it 's all done under a lack of male gaze. The audience is simply watching a group of beautiful women with impressive butts and flawless twerks around a man-less tropical island. Nicki 's gives her "I do what I want, when I want, how I want" brand of feminism. Towards the end of the video however, there is a man, rapper/singer, Drake. Minaj shakes her booty in his face, as he is about to touch her butt, she swaps it away. Minaj explicitly shows that unless you have her direct permission, one better not be touching. And then she 'll strut away leaving you all alone to contemplate your extreme irrelevancy to the entire endeavor- she has that power. Minaj is owning to to her sexuality. She can do that; she denies her sexuality to drake. The lyrics of the song emphasizes such, they generates an

(Weisstuch). The underlying message is that women live exclusively for the sexual gratification of men based on male power, privilege and preference. These images serve as a grim reminder that women are being exploited as sexual objects through rap videos. Therefore, the objectification of women through the means of rap music is a major influence in the exploitation of women.

In music videos the dancing or portrayal of the people within these videos is often of a very sexual driven nature. This re-inforces the idea that women are sexual objects and the purpose of their being is to provide the male population with sexual satisfaction. Women portrayed are very thin and pretty, wearing heavy layers of make-up which portrays the idea that women need materialistic items such as mascara and lipstick