The document provides analyses of music videos based on their portrayal of gender roles, race, sexuality, materialism, and violence. The 50 Cent video objectifies women as sexual objects for male pleasure. The N.W.A. video represents African Americans addressing police brutality faced by minorities. The Lil Wayne video contains explicit sexual lyrics and portrays casual sex between men and women. The Rihanna "Pour It Up" video emphasizes wealth through jewelry, money and luxury items, defining wealth as lavish spending. Her "Bitch Better Have My Money" video depicts violent kidnapping and threats to collect a debt.

1. Music Video Analysis
Gender Roles
Song Title: Candy shop
Artist: 50 cent
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with as
much detail as possible.
1. What are the men/women doing? (Dancing, sitting, swimming, etc.)
Women are singing the song while they give lap dances or kissing in a bed with the singer (50
cent)
2. How are the men/women dressed? How much skin is revealed?
Some women are dress with nurse costume, or bikinis but the majority with close that looks like
lingerie
3. Are there more, fewer, or the same number of men as women?
The video shows only one men (the singer) and more than 10 women
4. Describe the body language of the men/women: are they sitting, standing, gyrating,
mugging, etc.?
All women are dancing or standing very sexually. Some of them are dancing choreographies that
look like a stripper dance. The singer is just singing to the camera next to the girls or siting in
expensive cars.
5. Do the men/women have power? How do you know?
The most powerful in the video is the only men while the women are just sexually objectified.
They just look sexy while dancing. In the video they represent prostitutes.
6. What³s the message of the song?
The song talks about “candy shop” and they presented it as a brothel. But the real meaning of the
song is about 50 cents talking about taing a girl to the bed and having oral sex
7. What type of music is the song?
Hip-hop

2. Race
Song Title: Fuck tha Police
Artist: N.W.A
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with as
much detail as possible.
1. What races do you see represented?
This video represents African Americans and white Americans
2. Are there any dark skinned women shown? How many?
There are no women in the video. Just man
3. What is the race of the person at the focus of the video?
The band represents a group of black men
4. What are the black/Latino/Asian/white/Native American/Pacific Islander people doing?
They are singing in a very strong way. You can see that they want their message to be heard by
everyone
5. What³s the message of the song?
They are trying to be the voice of the minorities, in this case black people. They are speaking the
rude reality that every black people have to face with police. One part of the lyric says “A young
n** got it bad cause I'm brown, And not the other color so police think they have the authority to
kill a minority” that’s the main message that the band is trying to send.
6. What type of music is the song?
Rap and hip hop
Sexuality
Song Title: Lollipop
Artist: Lil Wayne
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with as
much detail as possible.

3. 1. Describe any sexually explicit body language:
I don’t consider the body language to be that sexual as the lyrics. The women are just dancing to
the camera in a sexy way while Lil Wayne sings.
2. Who is more sexualized men or women? Both?
Women are sexualized. The song talks about how the women had sex
3. Are there sexually explicit lyrics or messages?
The lyrics are very explicit in this video. The entire song talks about sex in a very explicit way
4. How are subjects of the music video dressed?
Women are dress very sexy but not in an inappropriate way. It was actually surprising because
for the lyrics I thought that they would be dressed as stripers
5. Describe the relationships between the men and women: Are they long or short term?
Casual or serious?
In this song women are men are just link by casual sex
6. What³s the message of the song?
They talk about how good women are in sex
7. What type of music is the song?
Electro pop, R&B and dirty rap
Materialism
Song Title: Pour it up
Artist: Rihanna
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with as
much detail as possible.
1. Describe the products that are highlighted in the video: (cars, jewelry, clothes, etc.)
Dollar bills, jewelry, Gold throne, and statues
2. Are any brand names shown?

4. Channel.
3. How is wealth defined in the video?
She dance wearing a lot of jewelry and throwing dollar bills to the air.
4. Are products mentioned in the song lyrics?
No
5. What³s the message of the song?
She sings that she has a lot of money and that she get it by stripping and drugs
6. What type of music is the song?
Hip Hop
Violence
Song Title: Bitch better have my money
Artist: Rihanna
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with as
much detail as possible.
1. Describe any violent lyrics in the song:
The song is about death threatening from Rihanna to a man who owns her money. The lyric is
full of bad words and the N word.
2. Describe any violent body language:
The video shows violently behavior when the group abducts the women and leaves her trap in
the suitcase so she cannot scape for help.
3. Describe any violent actions or weapons that are shown:
In the music video the singer (Rihanna) is a killer that kidnap the wife of someone who owns her
money. After she kidnap the women she put her life body in a suitcase and take it around like in
vacations while the singer and a group of women scape from the police and wait the husband to
pay.
4. Describe any self-mutilation or violence:

5. From the beginning the wife is kidnapped, hanged face down naked, locked up alive in a
suitcase, and drowned in a swimming pool. At the end of the video Rihanna kill the couple and
appear lying down in the open suitcase covered in blood while she is smoking
5. What³s the message of the song?
The song is about Rihanna threatening the person who owes her money, telling him that is better
that he has her money or she is going to kill him. She explains that he secured his own death
when he began to escape with the money. The singer also explained how she kidnapped his wife
and it is better to have the money fast or you will not kill them
6. What type of music is the song?
Trap