This weeks blog post is about the music videos we watched in class. The music videos shown show how images can change the meaning of a song. In some cases the images can be disturbing, casual, bothersome, powerful, and conjointing. Music videos push the meaning of the poetry written to whole other meanings.
Two Lady Gaga songs were specifically shown in class. The songs were ‘Born this way’ and ‘Til it happens to you.’ Both music videos amplified the meaning of their lyrics. The music video for born this way was bizarre in many ways, as it contained odd sequences of many themes. The music video pushed the meaning of being yourself, and not being judged by anyone else.
The music video for ‘Til it happens to you’ is a good example of a video pushing a powerful and serious message, as it showed strong depictions of rape. On a personal note the music video bothered me emotionally. It angers me to think why any man thinks he has the right to do such a thing as rape a women. Rape is despicable and evil under any set of circumstances, and unfortunately it continues to happen everyday. The music video was used to empower victims of rape to show them to not be afraid and to take action. As well as empower everyone stand and fight back against injustice.
I agree with what you said! It is very important that artists call out issues that are not talked about that often which make their audience feel like people relate to them and can make others feel empowered to take action.
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