The music video for "Girl in a Country Song" by Maddie & Tae switches gender roles, showing men exploited in the way women typically are in country music videos. The singers are sitting in a truck bed while actors swing their hips, then the roles switch and the men swing their hips. The message is to stop objectifying women. "Trap Queen" by Fetty Wap features African Americans rapping, dancing, and handling money. It messages about drug dealing and making his girlfriend happy. "Same Love" by Macklemore portrays gay lovers and messages the right to love whoever you want. It shows marriage between men but only short relationships between men and women.

1. Music Video Analysis
Gender Roles
Song Title: Girl In A Country Song
Artist: Maddie & Tae
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.)
Gender roles ore switched- men are being exploited like the women in country videos in
daisy dukes
2. How are the men/women dressed? How much skin is revealed?
Girls are covered men are not
3. Are there more, fewer, or the same number of men as women?
More men than women
4. Describe the body language of the men/women: are they sitting, standing, gyrating,
mugging, etc.?
Singers are sitting down in the truck bed, actors are swinging then the roles swithch
and the men are swinging
5. Do the men/women have power? How do you know?
Women have power
6. What³s the message of the song?
Stop objectifying women
7. What type of music is the song?
Country

2. Music Video Analysis
Race
Song Title: ________Trap Queen ______________________________
Artist: _________Fetty Wap _____________________________
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?
African Americans
2. Are there any dark skinned women shown? How many?
1-2
3. What is the race of the person at the focus of the video?
African American
4. What are the black/Latino/Asian/white/Native American/Pacific Islander people
doing?
Rapping, dancing, handling money
5. What³s the message of the song?
Drug dealing and making his GF happy
6. What type of music is the song?
Rap

3. Music Video Analysis
Sexuality
Song Title: ____________Same Love __________________________
Artist: ___________Macklemore___________________________
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with as
much detail as possible.
1. Describe any sexually explicit body language:
Gay lovers
2. Who is more sexualized • men or women? Both?
Men
3. Are there sexually explicit lyrics or messages?
No, just right to love whoever you want
4. How are subjects of the music video dressed?
Well dressed
5. Describe the relationships between the men and women: Are they long or short term?
Casual or serious?
Man with women= short
Man with man = marriage
6. What³s the message of the song?
Right to choose and marry who you love
7. What type of music is the song?
Rap+contemporary

4. Music Video Analysis
Materialism
Song Title: __________Shoes ____________________________
Artist: _______________KELLY _______________________
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.)
Shoes
2. Are any brand names shown?
probably
3. How is wealth defined in the video?
Shoes
4. Are products mentioned in the song lyrics?
Not really
5. What³s the message of the song?
shoes
6. What type of music is the song?
Other?

5. Music Video Analysis
Violence
Song Title: The Vengeful one______________________________________
Artist: ____________Disturbed __________________________
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:
(all of it)
As the violence surges
And the teeming masses have been terrorized
The human predators all gone mad
Are reaping profits born from their demise
The rabid media plays their roles
Stoking the flames of war to no surprise
Only too eager to sell their souls
For the apocalypse must be televised
2. Describe any violent body language:
Zombie people eating others, violent twitching
3. Describe any violent actions or weapons that are shown:
Fightings, shootings, blood, bombs
4. Describe any self-mutilation or violence:
Explosions, shootings,
5. What³s the message of the song?
Judgement day—angel of death is watching as the world gets more and more violent
and how the media is playing everyone against each other
6. What type of music is the song?
Heavy metal