Linking to my contextual
The one thing that made me think today was the video at the very start of the lecture where there was a discussion about madonna and her sexualisation of herself and the acceptance or rejection from the young female fans, the audience.
This is because it linked in so perfectly with what we have been covering in my popular culture group assignment.
One aspect of the assignment is the sexualisation of women through the popular culture of pop music and music video. We talk about Miley Cyrus and Madonna juxtaposed with other artists like Beyoncè and further contrasted with those like Lily Allen. In this, we have to think about the audience and why is it that young fans specifically look up to and approve of one icon’s sexualisation of themselves and why they disapprove of another’s.
Is the media partly to blame on what side to take? Do they neutrally report on artists’ sexual antics, see how the audience take it, and then take a side. Do they report a side and then the audience passively accepts that side?
