Archive for 'music video'
That's What My Daddy's Made Me: Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler" Videos
I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Pornography, Sex Roles, agency, child molestation, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender dynamics, gender power, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, male gaze, male sexuality, materialism, music, music video, objectification, objectification of women, objectify, patriarchy, politics, porn, power, power structure, prostitute, racism, sex, sex work, sex worker, sexism, shoplifting, subjectivity, subversion, theory.
Tags: abject, alternative, appetite, attack decay sustain release, child molestation, electro, electronica, feminist, girl on girl, honey hooker, hustler, kristeva, larry flynt, lust, male gaze, marx, Misogyny, mulvey, music, music video, myspace, objectify, party music, patriarchy, pink, politics, porn, Pornography, power, prositute, psychadelic, racism, sexism, sexuality, shoplifting, simian mobile disco, subjectivity, theory, video, women
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Meta-Hipsters and the Effectiveness of Ironically Self-Mocking PopCulture
So, in between waiting for episodes of 30 Rock to download, I got to thinking. Why is it that I so love this TV show about a woman making TV shows, written, produced, directed, and starred in by a Tina Fey, a woman who makes TV shows? Is there perhaps something especially entertaining about entertainment [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Andy Warhol, Comedy, El Chombo, El Mundo, Eminem, Macarron Chacarron, Magritte, Mia, Stick Figures on Crack, TV, Tina Fey, bloods, cartoon, clothing, consumer, cool, crack, cultural movement, culture, economics, entertainment, fashion, gang sign, hip, hipster, humor, irony, knife, meta, music video, old school, parody, pop culture, producer, psychology, reality, reality TV, retro, self-mocking, skinnycorp, slapstick, stereotype, stick figures, suburbia, subversion, t shirt, threadless, video game, violence, white kid, youtube.
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32 Flavas of That Bootylicious Radio Monopoly
Recently, I was dancing around my kitchen to my local Clear Channel top 40 station for hiphop and r&b. The song was Crime Mob’s “Rock Yo’ Hips,” and I stopped stirring the corn bean salad in disbelief when Diamond’s solo came on. She was making a (veiled), but definitely unmistakeable reference to Ani Difranco’s song [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2007 under 32 flavors, Ani Difranco, Clear Channel, Crime Mob, Female Sexuality, Rock Yo' Hips, Self Objectification, bodies, bootylicious, commercial radio, diamond, feminity, girl, hip hop, izzle as a suffix, lyric, monopoly, music video, objectification, pretty, radio, rap, self image, ugly.
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Can I Kick It: Do Hip Hop Fans Have More Sex?
Today, while browsing del.icio.us, I came across a recent study, published by Reuters and since retracted, (perhaps because of the outrage sure to result from its borderline racializing generalization) proposed that hip hop fans have more sex in the last five years than people who listen to country music. According to HiphopRnBSoul.com, the study [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under Britain, Female Sexuality, University of Leicester, casual sex, classical music, country music, crime, del.icio.us, emo, fucking, hip hop, hip hop culture, marijuana, marketing, mushrooms, music video, opera, pimp, psychology, racial profiling, racism, sex, social class.
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Heart Shaped Glasses/La Belle et Le Bad Boy
In a typically prescriptivist (definition) recent article from AOL, they wrote a horror-struck review of Marilyn Manson’s music video ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’, which stars the actress Evan Rachel Wood of Thirteen. The video portrays several scenes of sex, one of which involves a lot of random blood and (warning, plot spoiler to follow) the love [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under AOL, Christian Parents, Evan Rachel Wood, Female Sexuality, Heart Shaped Glasses, La Belle et le Bad Boy, MC Solaar, Marilyn Manson, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Thelma and Louise, Thirteen, agency, bad boy, fucking, love, music video, sex, subversion.
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Kanye West’s Gold Digger: Cashing in On Social Capital
Saturday night’s Mos Def concert was punctuated by frequent samples to highlight the talents of Mos’ DJs. One of the samples they chose was the bouncy blues of Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman” (click for an audio-only experience; this was pre-MTV). A girl behind me bopping her head to the beat, was trying to [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under Gold Digger, I Got a Woman, Kanye West, MTV, Misogyny, Mos Def, Psalm One, Ray Charles, Wikipedia, exploitation, hip hop, music video.
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But a Bitch Ain't One: Bitches and Hos, Part 2
Jay-Z begins his well-known hit “99 Problems” without music. Here’s the video: He states, “if you having girl problems, I feel bad for you, son; I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one.” The beat kicks in, and in the verse that follows, the self-proclaimed “rap’s Grateful Dead” rhymes on: I got the rap [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2007 under Jay-Z, Misogyny, bitch, gangsta rap, hip hop, ho, music video, racial profiling.
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