Blog 2
Prompt 1: I chose the Music video for Mamacita by Travis Scott for this blog. The actual song itself doesn’t start till about 1:27 and it involves the main artist Travis along with two other artists in the Video and the other cast in the video involve women. The reason I chose this video was because it fit into the male gaze and how they use women and their bodies as props. Prompt 2: Authorship- Rap culture created this text. It’s typical for them to use half naked women in music videos and this has been happening for years it is now seen as normal. Consumers also created this video considering the music video itself has 45 million views, they buy into it and it gives artist like Travis Scott the idea that this is what his audience likes to see. The typical answer for who created the message of course would be the artist themselves, they had a choice to not add half naked women and have them dancing in the background yet they went against it. Format- The women in th...