Friday 14 November 2008

challenging dominant ideologies WW

Challenging Gender
Lady sovereign- love me or hate me
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H1sHAX2F4PE

alot to say about this video in terms of revolting against gender conventions:

-"I got hairy armpits, but I don't walk around like this.I wear a big baggy t-shirt that hides that nasty shit"- typical lyrics found in her song "love me or hate me that revolt against generic ideologies typically suggested about women.

- "Never had my nails done.Bite them down until they're numb."- another quote reinforcing her counter cultural ideas, many girls enjoy and take passion in doing their nails and looking pretty- not seen in this viedo.

-"I don't like drinking fancy champy,I'll stick wit Heineken beers.Whoops, might burp in ya face,A little unlady-like,What can I say?"- typical- generic conventions of women is to be feminine abd not to burp or drink beer but to drink wine and "champy" but once again Lady Sov revolts.

- In the video there is a short scene when she throws out her dead hamster, this reinforces counter gender culture when the "typical woman" looking pretty and very feminine looks at her in a way that she thinks that lady sov is disgusting and barbaric.

- Another example of her challening gender stereotypes would be her wearing big baggy mens t-shirts,reinforces the ladette culture that lady sov could be seen as the face of.

Challenging Ethnicity

Goldie lookin' chain- Guns dont kill people rappers do.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-2XYOtgCg

In many hip hop videos, they usually feature black afro-american man dancing showing off their bling, cars, money etc, however in this video by Goldie Looking Chain, they flip that conventions round like in vanilla ice's video ice ice baby, singing about typical black street culture and wearing clothes (mise-en-scene) typical to the black american culture in a parodic fashion, could this be seen as a taking the mickey out of black culture?
post answers xx....

1 comment:

Ms Johnson said...

This is a good start Will, you talk about the narrative fuzz and lyrics, you should mention camera techniques, mes other issues of rep.