During a lit class on the last Thursday, we saw music videos of western pop musicians. Then after watching the videos, students in the class shared their impression and observations of what these musicians represent or tell to viewers. Maybe, singers have right to express themselves through the media, but I hope some singers concern that what they show influences people and the society.
The music video of Trey Songz's "Bottom Up" gave most students the impression of man's dominant world. In the video, Trey Songz and other female dancers appear. Trey Songz is the one, who sings a whole time. The female dancers are dancing with wearing sexual costume, which expose their whole legs. A couple of the dancers are chained their both hands. The dancers shake their backs and hips so many times during the song that I thought the female dancers intend to stimulate men viewers' sexual desires. I wasn't sure what Trey Songz wanted to tell viewers through the music videos, but I thought the pictures of the video were morally collapsed that the video shouldn't show on MTV or other websites, which everybody can watch it. Hopefully, Trey has some reasons of showing the video in a good way. If he has no idea, he should know as a popular musician that how badly the video can influence, especially, teenagers.
Even the worse video than Trey's was the music video of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream. Katy Perry appears on a open car with a guy, who is driving the car in the country side. Katy is singing, at the same time, she is touching and kissing the guy. In the other scene, Katy and the guy are on a bed in a motel room and start taking off each others' clothes and kissing. Even though I never heard her intention of showing the video, but I thought that the video explained viewers that what Katy was doing with the guy on the video was the "Teenage Dream," which many teenage female were supposed to long for. The video can lead teenage viewers to know that "Teenage Dream" is to have sex with other guys or girls. I think the video has a great potential to make the US society much worse. Katy, if you are concerned about making the society better, maybe you should delete the video?
Many young people think that whatever pop musicians do or say is cool, and they try to become like them through acting or appearing like the musicians. Even though these musicians have right to show things through their music videos, they should limit the contents that they can show not to influence viewer in the bad way.
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