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Music video analysis

I gave up trying to find a music video with both characters and a plot of some sort from the bands I listen to so I ventured to the trending page on youtube. I ended up picking the song Woman like me from the four-person girl group Little Mix and Nicki Minaj. (Is girlband the correct term as opposed to boyband?) I picked it solely on the name of the song assuming that it'd have something to do with gender. Who knew, I was right!


So there's really no plot in the video, but the song is about whether or not this theoretical man could ever fall in love with a woman like them. The man is told to be kind of shy while the singers have no filter, cause trouble and dress fancy. It's a pretty tired set-up but I'm more interested in what is shown in the video.

Besides showing the singers dancing or just standing around the video shows the women balancing stacks of books on their heads, ironing, and posting around a massive scale. They also show the women eating, but their forks are empty.

It's clear that the artists are trying to send a message about gender roles and the expectations placed on women. It's a good message for sure but it feels out of place. The song has absolutely nothing to do with the standards women are expected to live up to. It's just your run-of-the-mill pop song about love and putting in these supposedly thought-provoking scenes feels forced.

Also besides the aforementioned scenes, there are plenty of scenes where the group dances in skimpy clothes which, you know, more power to them I guess, but it does take away from the message they're trying to send.

I'll end this post with Nicki's last lines in the song. Words to live by if I can be honest:

I-It's the Queen and Little Mix, skated on 'em, sorry
My daddy is Indian (swish), a-all this curry (mhm)

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