Exploitation of Women in Music

In popular melody today, there is a profound increase in sexualized delegacy of women. There ar many an(prenominal) social and political implications when listening to nervous strains on the radio, online, on TV, etcet while There is a circle of talk about whether this hyper-sexualization is empowering or exploitive. There is also communication to be had about manlikeness and how men in symphony gain power and secure over feminine bodies. The fe manly body is somewhat of a performance site by which male dominance is subverted. It is a tough conversation touch which examples of popular cultivation are empowering to women in the sense that they are claiming their bodies to reconstruct gender indistinguishability and sexualization or if dominant male forces and cultural ideologies always reappearance this. By using textual analysis and ideology, I looked at examples of popular culture much(prenominal) as medicinal drug videos and song lyrics. There are examples of empowering sexualization in this new feminist era such as Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj, and I will focal point on exploitation of women bodies by male artists. Most representations and portrayals of women in music are sexualized and exploitive.\n both(prenominal) music videos in popular culture featuring a male artist take payoff of women and assert power and lead of their bodies. Music videos are at a time central to popular culture and media industries. Instead of just contend on MTV, music videos have spread to airing on multiple channels as well as crosswise musical genres. They have locomote from the margins of the culture and relative whiteness to its very center and its caldron of controversy roughly the nature of the sexual imagery that came to define it as a genre (Sut Jhally, Dreamworlds 3). When looking at music videos, I took a textual analysis approach. I looked at how certain music videos conveyed specific ideologies of gender and sexuality. Douglas Kellner, oc casion of Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture defines ideologies as �...