music videos and sex

so we have learned that girls in little clothing are used to see beer,fashion, and now music. Music videos are becoming more and more scandalous. There seems to be a near naked girl in everyone. Sometimes it is actually the singer herself and sometime it is just some hoe, as in the case with Snoop Dog's "Gin and Juice" video or Sor Mixalot
's "Baby Got Back". It seems like nothing sells anymore without being related to sex. For example Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera had first albums that portrayed this as wholesome American Girls, by there follow up albums there weren't looking the same. They made this decision, would their albums have sold the same if they hadn't gone in such a sexier direction. It is hard to tell and it seems that other people have continued to follow in their footsteps as sex symbols instead of the other way. Sex sells and people don't want to take a chance of their album not selling or their music video not being watched. Not only does sex sells but the way that scociety thinks now is what makes sex sell. Maybe people should start thinking for themselves and not so much following protocal and the world wouldn't reley so much on sex appeal.

beer = sex

So apparently sex is used to sell everything, not just designer shoes and clothing, but beer too. The thing that bothers me is that there seems to be more controversy surrounding beer ads than fashion adds. They all sell sex, not the products they were intended to sell. It seems like beer ads are yanked from the tv for being contrevesal or degrading while fashion ads aren't banned from magazines for the same thing. I want to know why these products can't sell themselves. Why do they have to have to use skantily clad woman to sell their products. I didn't realize how much sex sold beer until i got into this class. I seem to critque comercials in a whole new way now. I don't even remember some of these commercials but they are made for a male audience. I didn't realize how much they were made for the male audience until i was describing the commercial with the 3 girls pillow fighting to my boyfriend and he distinctively remember the commercials and all the details about it, but he couldn't tell me about the superbowl that was being played at the same time.

Let's Look at Porn

Porn is an everyday part of the american advertising world. it has slowly over timed come to be sush a part of adds that we don't even know what the adds are about anymore. Naked woman pleasuring themselve in pictiures is not advertising, it's soft core porn. Take for example the Marc Jacobs shoe add, there is a woman laying ont the bed with her rear end exposed and her legs over her head and she is looking striaght at the camera in a way that doesn't make me think of shows. She screams sex and shoes and if there wasn't a title on the bottom of the page that read Marc Jacob shoes, then i wouldn't even know what is ad was about and this could be the front of a porn movie or magazine. wOMAN are portrayed as sex abjects on the fornt of so many main stream magazines, such as 17, vogue, and elle; everyone sees these magazines and sees theese skinny half naked woman looking at them. What kind of modle those this set for children growing up? and when is the last time you saw the from of a magazine with a woman completely clothed on it? Adds need to go back to being more about what thet are sellung and less about the sex.

"all american Girls"

so we read the case profile last week and it showed clearly how people stereotyped the girls before they really did all the research. It shows that news can stereotype in spot news cases. Once the story broke away from spot news and it had been a few days, a new stereotype was setup. This shows that the media is wrong in their stereotyping and need to work on reporting in a more objective way to help save their own image. The paper changed what the girls were portrayed as after a few days and this seemed like they didn't do their research in the first place.