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Representation in music videos

Different ways of representation...

Gender 
Females are often shown differently to men are displayed. Women are usually more sexualised. Wearing small amount of clothing or mainly "skimpy" clothing. This is usually put in place to reinforce the "Male Gaze".
In music videos men are usually displayed as people who are mainly labelled as powerful with quite a lot of success in money and can attract a lot of the female gender. This image is done in order to look admirable to other men for them to want to be what they are. Nice clothes and nice props are used in order to entice the female gender into liking them.

In  genres like pop they often stick to the idea of the female artist or actor in the music video as being sexualised however in different genres for example R&B the artist,if female,is often shown in a different light which is as being empowering and independent human beings. They are also brought to attention in different ways instead of being brought to attention by their physical body and beauty. 

Males are seen as -
  • More aggressive and dominant behaviour
  • Unemotional
  • Adventurous
Females are seen as -
  • Explicit and sexual
  • Decorative objects
  • Provocative
  • Used for the male gaze


Sexuality
Years ago it was just heterosexual relationships that would be shown however now there is a much broader amount shown as it is now accepted meaning there are now more music videos which involve different sexuality.
Indie music videos usually show a wide range of sexuality, for example gay, lesbian or transgender.Although it has been accepted it is not completely mainstream within music videos yet. The most commonly shown sexuality's heterosexual where there is a man and woman in a sexual relationship or sometimes in other situations they're coming out of a bad relationship.

These are the two most commonly shown types of representation within music videos there is also gender shown and also always sexuality shown also within a music video.

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