Analyzing The Music Video 'Just Be Yourself'

There are beauty standards all over the world, but America has one of the most highest and unreachable standard of the all. In the article “Whose Body is This,” the author Katherine Haines reflects the issue on how narrow-minded society, magazine and the rest of media is depicting the perfect body. The ideal body in America is established as skinny, tall, perfect skin, tight body are characteristics that destroyed majority of woman’s self esteem (172). As girls get older and into their teen years, they have been brainwashed to need to look like the unrealistic, and photoshopped models in magazines and advertisements. Girls don’t feel comfortable to be in their own skin, because they were not taught to love themselves for who they are right in the beginning.

Under society’s customs for decades, young women have found themselves immersed in the pressure and anticipation to have exemplary bodies. Nearly every young woman prefers to be slim, have a perfectly shaped body, that is beautified by applying pounds of makeup to their face but does not appear ridiculously overdone. Who’s responsible for these measures imposed on young women? When a young girl picks up the model on the cover of Vogue being called flawless, naturally it’s easy for her to then aspire to be a real-life imitation of the that model. These companies produce magazine covers shown with girls’ images daily. As if keeping the perfect body wasn’t hard enough, our culture also forces girls into the forever expanding world of composition, however, body image is a surging subject for young girls. Advertisements and pictures of lean female models are all over. Young women are measured and perplexed by their physical appearances with attire intended to raise their physical structures; social media, magazines, the society, marketing campaigns, advertisements, and the fashion gurus add to a strand of excellence.

The video is able to show the different phases individuals may go through when dealing with this relationship, such as the honeymoon phase or the abusive phase. However, the song and music video has faced much backlash due to it glorifying domestic violence disputes.  It is out question that we as human begins can be influenced by outside factors other than ourselves and the music industry is a perfect example of such.  The music industry and artist are known to display messages or even symbols that can be quite questionable , so I am not suprised that this video is doing the same thing.  Music tends to reflect the culture and activies of its time. For example, Christina Aguileria created the song Beautiful when numbers of bullying started to increase and when individuals felt like outcast.  However, what about domestic violence issues; there isn't much songs that support women or even men in this type of relationships but we do see videos where the women or men end up going back to the abuser, exactly what does that do.  Not to mention, women in music videos are more seen as objects the actual huan beings. For instance, in rap videos women are seen either following the man around or twerking to gain his attention.  The music industy tolerates and also contributes to domesti violence , the only way that can change is if the music industry changes

An array of logos is demonstrated through the use of a logical organization and style throughout, that emphasizes the lyrics and scenes. Organization makes sense for how Maddie and Tae want the sequence of the events to be shown. The master plot for the music video is transformation; the girls are going through an emotional change of realization that they aren’t less worthy than boys. A linear storytelling method allows the video to start off with what is seen in reality and moves on to show how ridiculous it looks, which enhances the storyline. Flashes between the scenes create a logical view of what is depicted and what is mockery. The first line in the video, “No country music was harmed in the making of this

This new look showed how young girls finally just did not care and wanted to stand out showing they had a say of what they could and could not do. These girls did not care what the older generation thought and made a point in society.

Up until this point, she wears casual clothing such as sweaters, and jeans, and has friendly and warm facial expressions and body language, which blends in with Chris’ personality and style. Now in this scene, she sits on her bed with a very preppy white-collared shirt tucked into khaki pants with white shoes; her style transforms to become a more well-off and privileged look, and this creates dichotomy between her and Chris (which is a metaphor for issues with racial wage gap) as she now demonstrates her true role in her family. Her outfit is very elitist and equestrian, or white-collar worker, amplifying her look of power and wealth, which exploits the poverty that many black people endure making them inferior and prey in economic terms. Moreover, her looks could murder; her facial expressions are menacing. The camera is focused very closely on her face to exploit her true colors and she seems to have no more empathy or feeling. She has her hair slicked back into a ponytail, and her face is concentrated, cold, and calculating, as she is ready to get down to business, preying on her next black victim as she Googles “Top NCAA Prospects”, searching for a new victim. Her kind act has faded leaving a very predacious and snooty appearance that reveals the theme of white privilege and racial inequality that is lethal and lurking in our society. Her look of elitism additionally works

The race of the woman grabs the attention of the audience even more.  She is white, most likely American.  At this time many states still haven’t legalized interracial marriage, and due to the culture of objectifying women which was very strong in America at this time, these posters almost in a way

This has a great effect on the song title called ‘Loyal’. All of the girls were either wearing tight or revealing clothes exposing a large area of skin this shows how females are more portrait as a sex object. There was a lot of advertisement during the music video like Lil Wayne trying to promote his clothing brand called ‘TrunkFit’ by wearing some of the items and having a TrunkFit store in the background. Another example of advertisement was when there were posters of his album cover trying to promote his new album ‘X’. The target audiences for this song are from the age of 16 – 20 years old and it’s for both

The people who are represented are women and scholars, who have a good idea of how women are portrayed and it has clips of them explaining the negative portrayal of women in our society. The intended audience for this image would be both women and men. This intended audience is for women because it is showing that we as women need to continue to stand up for our intellectual rights and show people that we are more than our bodies

The most conspicuous part of the advertisement is the image of the woman in front of a black background so that only her face is visible. This in itself is important because it is automatically making her face the focus of the advertisement and not her body. Unlike most advertisements in which a woman’s body is exploited to sell products to men, the UN Women advertisement draws attention to her eyes, therefore making her your equal, since you have to make eye contact with her instead of looking anywhere else on her body. She is completely expressionless, looking at the viewer with a blank stare, a totally blank slate onto which viewer’s reflect their own views. Even more important, the woman pictured is a Muslim woman, as displayed by her hijab. The hijab is widely seen in western society as a form of oppression by men, to make women subservient to them, and by juxtaposing an ad for equality with the

By juxtaposing feminine makeup and nudity, with stereotypically male clothing, haircut she allowed people to subconsciously re-associate these ideas. Re-associating things such as short haircuts not only being for men in and of itself is a large shift in ideals. It used to be abnormal, and seen as possibly rebellious. In the four years since the video was released and such an idolized figure transitioned from the typical long blonde hair to a very short pixie cut, it has become much more widely accepted and even praised for women to have said “boy cuts”. In addition it has become normalized and popular for women to wear oversized and/or men’s clothing, which was not the case just a few years ago. She also presents the image of her in control of a wrecking ball, destructive, giant and unforgiving. The idea of a woman being completely in control of something such as this is and unusual one. While challenging these stereotypes about

Mass media falsely claims to be an advocate for self-acceptance and the idea that every woman is naturally beautiful, while it simultaneously uses Photoshop to erase all trace of that natural beauty—imagine how much they would Photoshop women if they did not extol real, non-enhanced, beauty! The women in these digitally improved photos look, quite frankly, as real as Barbie and her friends, and few women actually believe that the women in the pictures look that flawless in person. However, these pictures have the power to make any woman, including those in the pictures, feel inadequate because she is not as “attractive” as a Photoshopped image, the power to make a woman detest herself

In the first video " Always like a girl" sends a message of how people stereotype girls, like when they asked the four older girls, and two boys to show them how girls throw a ball, fight, and run. The four older girls ran weird, fought weird and threw a ball weird. The two boys made girly noises when they demonstrated the movements they got told to do. Then they asked a couple of little girls to demonstrate the same movements and the movements were very different, with what they were doing they were giving there all showing then how it really was to throw a ball, fight, and run. The video also is trying to tell us that when a girl is going different changes they get more sensitive to a lot more things, and there body is changing.

It 's not a mystery that society 's ideals of beauty have a drastic and frightening effect on women. Popular culture frequently tells society, what is supposed to recognize and accept as beauty, and even though beauty is a concept that differs on all cultures and modifies over time, society continues to set great importance on what beautiful means and the significance of achieving it; consequently, most women aspire to achieve beauty, occasionally without measuring the consequences on their emotional or physical being. Unrealistic beauty standards are causing tremendous damage to society, a growing crisis where popular culture conveys the message that external beauty is the most significant characteristic women can have. The approval of prototypes where women are presented as a beautiful object or the winner of a beauty contest by evaluating mostly their physical attractiveness creates a faulty society, causing numerous negative effects; however, some of the most apparent consequences young and adult women encounter by beauty standards, can manifest as body dissatisfaction, eating disorders that put women’s life in danger, professional disadvantage, and economic difficulty.

Every single day when I wake up in the morning, one of the first things I do is look at myself in the mirror. Am I skinny enough? Is my skin clear enough? Do I look like the girl from the magazine I was reading yesterday? No. I don’t. But I’ll keep asking these questions each and everyday because that is what the media tells me I need to look like. Because if my waist isn’t small enough I’m not pretty. Because if I have cellulite on my legs there’s something wrong with me. Because if I don’t slot into this unattainable standard. I'm not beautiful. Airbrushing and photoshopping models in pictures to display through media is something that frankly speaking is appalling. We are alienating beautiful human beings because of the media’s dictations on what we should look like. I am sick of being brainwashed to the point where all I can ever seem to do is single out the ‘flaws’ in myself. If we display, real, beautiful, raw pictures of people in media then so many problems caused by this would no longer exist.