While watching Dream Worlds 2, the videos that were all crammed into that film I had seen before. Some of the words to the songs played out in my head, distracting me from the content of the movie. This brought up an interesting point to me. Since birth, I had been shown these images, but never thought twice about them-until now. For me, I think that the words of the songs, whether they be lust, love, or just plain old bumping and grinding, take away from the deliberate meaning 0f the images portrayed. In my mind, the rump shaking and scantily clad women fit into what the music artist was talking (or singing) about, making it almost okay for the women to be portrayed in this way. If a women is doing all these things, even participating in a little girl-on-girl action, but the artist claims that it's all for the love baby, then its smiled upon because it is good to see a nice pretty girl snag a good man. That is the ultimate goal. To get married and have lots and lots of babies who will then keep the cycle going... circle of life. While this is all fine and well, the means by how we accomplish this goal worry me. Music videos, the very same in Dreamworlds 2, tell women that to get a man (and to keep him) you must be thin, have amazing hair, be able to dance like nobody's business, and of course, be drop dead gorgeous. Of course, I disagree with all of this. This videos are merely a dreamworld, these women are the minority of the female population, and because of the "respect" mainstream culture has for these music video divas, they, the minority, have a huge impact on both the female and male population.
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