2. BLURRED LINES INTRO
• Blurred Lines Bio:
• Artists: Robin Thicke, T.I , Pharrell Williams
• Release Date: March 26th, 2013
• Genre: R+B, Disco, Funk
• Views: 36,785,138
• Record Label: Star Trak, Interscope.
When blurred lines was first released it caused a lot of controversy
as it was labeled “Battle of the sexes”. It gained over 36million
views worldwide on the VEVO Channel on YouTube.
The reason why the song caused a lot of controversy is because
the song had lyrical messages intending to the acts of rape and
sexual abuse towards women like women are supposed to like that
sort of thing.
3. GENDER
• The main gender watching this
video would be men due to the
women in the video. They would
like to watch them women dancing
around because it interests them
sort of young people they like to
watch them women because its part
of the growing up process, they like
to be attracted to the women in the
video cause they’re luscious in their
beauty, it’s like the women are
dressed to get that sort of male
attention, also the lyrics are catchy
and it leeches on to young people
to listen to that music.
The main gender of viewers/listeners
watching the blurred lines video are
about 15 and over, but also women
like to watch it as well as men.
It is very appealing for young men of
this age because they are only just
starting to find out what the female
figure is like. But most viewers watch it
for the exotic dancing that the women
display in the video.
4. AGE
• The age range of people who
watch/listen to the blurred lines video
varies from 14-22 years of age, people
younger may not watch the video
because its too explicit for them, the
lyrics to the video shouldn’t be for
people that age because the lyrics are
sexually orientated and are about rape
which shouldn’t appeal to anyone of
any age at all. The lyrics may effect the
person watching the video because
they may act towards them lyrics
because kids of that age are vulnerable
and teach themselves to behave with
them lyrics cause they idolize those
sort of singers.
Even though the music video and
song caused such a massive
controversy people of a young
age still continue to watch/listen
to it.
It hasn’t just caused controversy
due to sexism, it has also caused
controversy seeing if it should
actually be on YouTube or even
TV! Due to parents getting angry
that their children are listening to
this sort of music which could
influence them.
5. Geo Demographic
• People who live in the countryside
may not like this sort of music
because they are used to traditional
music, like music they have grown
up with, but people who live in cities
or suburbs may have the same
music taste as it the sort of music
they may hear in school or on TV.
• People who live in cities and
suburbs have a different music taste
because it’s something they hear in
a everyday basis, as in the
countryside or a sea-front they will
listen to more traditional music.
People in Asia or Africa could
be watching the video or
listening to it. This could effect
them because they’re
listening to a video that could
influence them because
people in them continents
could want a figure to look up
to and then if they look up to
the people in the video its like
they’re going to want to be a
sort of pimp which would be a
bad phase for people of a
different culture to go through.
6. Life Ambition
• Young people who think about their futures may look at the video
and think that music is their life style they want when they’re older.
• It can bring ambition to them to be this sort of person in the video
someone who is almost like a “pimp”, that is how the video portrays
the main men in the video to be, like if you have money and power
you are in control of any woman you want to be sexual towards this
should not be a objective for young people as its not a ambition its
just stupidity. But also the video may reflect a career in music for
them something they can look up to, to be a good singer or a good
music maker, which is a high ambition for people of that age.
