The music video for G-Eazy's song "Marilyn" features elements typical of a rap song like fast-paced rapping over a beat about problems faced. Images in the video relate to lyrics about everything being alright and show a girl alone in an apartment or with the artist. The music varies from soft when the female singer performs to faster when the male raps. The artist is presented sympathetically as trying to rescue the relationship, and featuring another singer expands his audience. Females are not overtly voyeurized though the girl is shown in just underwear and a shirt in a bedroom. While not a typical rap video, it includes other conventions of the genre but avoids stereotypes by portraying

1. G-Eazy
Marilyn Ft. Dominique Lejeune

2. Genre – Rap / Hip Hop –
The music uses the conventions of a typical
rap song, which includes rapping to the
beat and is rather fast paced, as well as
talking about problems that he is facing

3. Image Relation To Lyrics –
A lyric from the song includes
‘everything will be all right’ and the
images are of a girls sitting by herself
in an apartment or when she is sitting
with him in the apartment

4. Image Relation To Music –
The images are flowered with love and the
fear of losing someone and the music can
be very soft at times when the female is
singing but gets faster as the male
singer is singing

5. How Is The Artist Presented To ‘Sell’ –
We are supposed to sympathies for the rapper
as he tries to ‘Rescue’ the relationship and
it also features a different singer which
helps expand the rappers horizons with who
the music actually reaches

6. Are Females Represented Voyeuristically –
Not really, but what can be seen as voyeuristic
is her being dressed in just an oversized
t-shirt and underwear but it’s in a bedroom
scene, so that can be looked over.

7. Further Comments –
The music video isn’t a typical music video for
a rap song but it has all the other conventions
of a rap music video. The video doesn’t conform
to the stereotypes as it looks like a love story
music video.