Laura Mulvey

Has a very feministic view to the world of music videos, and believes that they are all shot from the male perspective, where men are active and women take a passive roll throughout the video, she believes this reinforces the idea of 'the male gaze'...

I am going to look at a video which I believe will back up all of Laura Mulveys points,
Its called Go girl, by Pitbull,

- The men in the video are clearly eyeing up the women throughout and objectifying them,

-Where as the woman seem to all just flock around one man and dance,

This video seems to demean woman as objects of physical beauty and are seen as worthless if they are not, every woman in the video wears a tiny dress and the only time they look at the camera is to pout in a 'seductive' manor.. The man however is all dressed up and made to look like some kind of awesome being as he is surrounded by women and ignores them all minus their bodies...

I feel like this was definitely a video from a male's perspective, not just because of the dancing naked ladies but the way that there were so many of them all desperate for this guy who appears to have no moral integrity according to the lyrics, and thus guys watching it might think they can also enjoy this kind of behaviour from women, even if they are balding and make overly sexual requests all the time.

Here a woman is seen being 'dismembered' where part of the women is shown instead of the whole, making her focus on herself in small parts instead of as a whole.
The only reason I think there was less dismemberment than I expected in the Pitball video was because they wanted to remind the audience how many different girls were interested in the singer and without their faces it wouldn't be apparent.

This is specifically throughout the hiphop/ rap genre which I don't plan to go in to, however if my group wanted to I would be willing to, just no way am I performing in something fitting to this genre!!