http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfF_PHBgDM
1. Pleasure P- Boyfriend #2
This video was extremely "sex" oriented. It is primarily about a boy trying to charm his new girlfriend and telling her that he can treat her better than her first boyfriend. And it seems that he is wanting to treat her better in bed...(not to be inappropriate!) But a lot of the video takes place on the bed.
2. Slick Rick- Children's Story
http://www.nutsie.com/song/Children%27s%20Story/4015391?artist_id=2908206&album_id=4015388
This video was quite peculiar...It started off by three children asking Slick Rick to tell them a bedtime story. The bedtime story ends up being about a guy that becomes obsessed with stealing and he becomes really good at it. He one day gets caught by the police and put in jail but he gets the keys and escapes. The whole video was made to be a humorous video.
3. The Dream- Rockin that Thang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTFNXhb1kY
This video is all about him wanting a girls body. He is infatuated with the girl in the video and seems to enjoy watching her "shake that thang." He talks about wanting to change her last name and get her into bed...
4. Talib Kweli- Get By
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zxCAfVeD8
This video is talking about everything that people must overcome on a day by day basis just to "get by." It shows a single mother of three, he talks about living in a trailer park, quitting smoking and drinking, just to get by.
5. Iglu & Hartly- In This City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqPu8ziGi0&feature=channel
This video is about a group of guys who are comfortable where they are. It shows them hanging out in the streets, skateboarding, having a beer at a bar, and just being comfortable in their city. It says "I won't disappear in this city" and I took that as how they feel that they won't just be another face in the crowd in this city because they feel that this is where they belong.
Three advertisements that I have heard on hip-hop stations are Advanced Laser Center in Oklahoma, Ticket Master and Verizon Wireless. I heard all of these quite frequently.
You can also find the influence of hip hop in the media such as music videos on MTV and VH1 and award shows such as the MTV music awards. You can also see hip hop in magazines in the pictures they show of different hip hop bands.
I feel like "sex" has been a big part of hip hop culture. A lot of songs are somehow based around sexual meanings or interpretations and have also been somewhat controversial in the news/public.
My dad LOVED rock and roll and was a huge Led Zeppelin fan. He also liked R & B and listened to Van Morrison, and my mom loved R & B and her one of her favorite singers was Petula Clark who sand "downtown."
Hip hop has become a huge part of our culture. It has taken over the music industry with a new band coming out of the woodwork almost everyday it seems like. Many of our parents seem to not care for hip hop because of its sexual content and images. It is very racy and some of the language and lyrics used seem "inappropriate" to parents. I personally enjoy some hip hop and some I do not, as with all music. I love all music in general. I think it depends on what kind of mood you are in for what you listen to. But I definitely think that hip hop has had its way of bringing about new images in the media. Images including: big booties, mid drift, extremely short shorts, provocative dancing, bed scenes etc. Thus, some parents are trying to screen what their young children are watching on both the television and the computer. I personally don't think that things are going to get better with it..I think it will only continue to get worse just because that is the way our culture has seem to become accustomed to.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
For this advertising assignment I looked at the placement of women in ads. I think that women in ads are displayed in a negative way in a lot of them so that is what I focused on.
1. GQ magazine-There is a sketchers ad where a girl, dressed in really short shorts, a mid-drift top that is very tight and shows a lot of her stomach. She is hanging on a guy and looking at him in a seductive way and he is not even looking at her. He's looking straight ahead at the camera with his hands by his side. I think this was negative towards women because it makes her look desperate and as if he does not even know she is there.
2. Pro Active Commercial-I saw a Pro Active commercial on TV and the majority of the people in the commercial were women. I feel like this was saying that its just the majority of women who have acne problems when in reality boys have just as many problems.
3. US Weekly magazine-It was a Small Altoids ad and it shows just the back of a girl holding a box of mints and the caption says "When you lean in make sure he doesn't lean out."
4. J. Crew clothing ad in a store-In a J.Crew store there was an ad for shoes by the shoe section but the ad only showed a girl from the waist down. I found this weird that they couldn't include her face?
5. Progressive Commercial- in this commercial it was only men buying insurance for cars and boats and everything and the employee was a woman. I found this degrading because I think it shows that women are incompetent to buy insurance for things and that it's a "mans job."
6. Reality TV-American Idol
7. People magazine/and website
8. The Oklahoma Daily
9. Glamour magazine
10. Ellen Degenerous show Tuesday morning at 9a.m.
I found this assignment to be very eye opening. I do not think we realize how women are portrayed in the media. I think we are all very immune to the way women are depicted and treated in ads. There are so many ads in the media today that show one woman surrounded by tons of men, or half of a female will be cut out of the ad while the whole body of the man is in it. Women are often times made to look very vulnerable and helpless in ads as well. Also in ads, the majority of women are beautiful, flawless, and extremely skinny. However, most of us do not take the time to stop and realize how much photoshop can actually do to a person's looks. A woman can made to be 10 lbs lighter with just the click of a mouse. They can also have all of their blemishes and cellulite removed with just the click of the mouse as well. These things we do not often enough sit and think about but instead think we are not ever going to be as pretty or skinny as we "need/should" be. Other than the Dove commercials and advertisements I cannot think of any other advertisements that portray women who are not bone thin. I think the Dove commercials are great and should be showed way more often. They show norman, average, CURVY women. These type of ads need and should be shown far more often. These are the kinds of images that need to be embedded in the minds of young girls and women today. Women need to be shown that bone thin is not normal and that curves are much sexier. But how do we get this to happen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGiB-o84sk
1. GQ magazine-There is a sketchers ad where a girl, dressed in really short shorts, a mid-drift top that is very tight and shows a lot of her stomach. She is hanging on a guy and looking at him in a seductive way and he is not even looking at her. He's looking straight ahead at the camera with his hands by his side. I think this was negative towards women because it makes her look desperate and as if he does not even know she is there.
2. Pro Active Commercial-I saw a Pro Active commercial on TV and the majority of the people in the commercial were women. I feel like this was saying that its just the majority of women who have acne problems when in reality boys have just as many problems.
3. US Weekly magazine-It was a Small Altoids ad and it shows just the back of a girl holding a box of mints and the caption says "When you lean in make sure he doesn't lean out."
4. J. Crew clothing ad in a store-In a J.Crew store there was an ad for shoes by the shoe section but the ad only showed a girl from the waist down. I found this weird that they couldn't include her face?
5. Progressive Commercial- in this commercial it was only men buying insurance for cars and boats and everything and the employee was a woman. I found this degrading because I think it shows that women are incompetent to buy insurance for things and that it's a "mans job."
6. Reality TV-American Idol
7. People magazine/and website
8. The Oklahoma Daily
9. Glamour magazine
10. Ellen Degenerous show Tuesday morning at 9a.m.
I found this assignment to be very eye opening. I do not think we realize how women are portrayed in the media. I think we are all very immune to the way women are depicted and treated in ads. There are so many ads in the media today that show one woman surrounded by tons of men, or half of a female will be cut out of the ad while the whole body of the man is in it. Women are often times made to look very vulnerable and helpless in ads as well. Also in ads, the majority of women are beautiful, flawless, and extremely skinny. However, most of us do not take the time to stop and realize how much photoshop can actually do to a person's looks. A woman can made to be 10 lbs lighter with just the click of a mouse. They can also have all of their blemishes and cellulite removed with just the click of the mouse as well. These things we do not often enough sit and think about but instead think we are not ever going to be as pretty or skinny as we "need/should" be. Other than the Dove commercials and advertisements I cannot think of any other advertisements that portray women who are not bone thin. I think the Dove commercials are great and should be showed way more often. They show norman, average, CURVY women. These type of ads need and should be shown far more often. These are the kinds of images that need to be embedded in the minds of young girls and women today. Women need to be shown that bone thin is not normal and that curves are much sexier. But how do we get this to happen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGiB-o84sk
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