WE DON'T CARE - AUDIO BULLYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXMUY4deXs0
We watched this video without any sound to see if we could determine who it would appeal to without knowing the genre of the music.
Our first impression was that it was rap because there were "tough", "gangster" men walking around, in England in a rough area. People who like rap are going to aspire to be someone hard and feared in the community which is what this video portrays.
We then watched it again with the music on and discovered that what we thought was correct.
I think this video is stupid because I can't see why a 20 year old man is going to want to aspire to be a small little boy who thinks he's really cool and hard walking round a town and checking out a woman in a bar who is probably triple his age. Although I can see that maybe this could be trying to put across that people who like this sort of music are in fact at heart just small boys who think they're more important than they are, and so if this is the point that its trying make then they've done it well.
It's good to have a different opinion on stuff and be able to voice it :-)
ReplyDeleteI think your last par is ok, but the comment about people who like the music are 'small boys' - I think it's more about adults who behave like the boy in the video are more like children.
It IS music to start a fight to (imo) and think how the agression of the track itself (and the lyrics - and how they are sung) all link in to that.
There's a feel of a Guy Ritchie low-budget British gangster flick (ref Lock Stock...) so maybe use terms like intertextuality to explain the feeling too.
Well done, though, Alice - a good effort!