Blog 7. Music Video

 Music videos: Britney Spears 'Baby hit me one more time'

This music video along with the lyrics’ sends off a negative stereotype and message to teenage girls. Firstly Britney spears being a young pop singer who is very famous with songs that are directly focused at teenagers and young adults has a lot of influence on teenage girls. In this clip Britney Spears dresses up as a 'school girl' in a very provocative way. Her schoolgirl outfit consisting with her skirt being short her white blouse being tied up to show her stomach and her hair in two plaits with pink pigtails gives off the impression of her being a younger teenage girl. This representation of Britney on teenage girls is not a good one, because she is a famous person and teenage girls look at her and potentially want to be her and in this clip they see her as being the centre of attention by both girls and boys and is wearing clothes that would show lots more skin (her midriff) then a normal girl would wear especially if they were having to wear a school uniform. This again puts a skinny pretty blonde girl wearing less clothes then a normal teenager into the spot light to be loved for what she looks like and the song she has produced. Watching her as a singer in this clip the way she dances like  for example at 00:31 seconds can send of the impression that that is the way you have to dance which is in a slightly sexual way in order to become someone whom produces these videos and gets this attention. This shows young teenager's how to act which can have a big influence in the girls watching this then trying to live up to this standard not being completely who they are as a person but trying to be someone else. As well as people form wider areas of society viewing this clip it can have a negative influence on due to the fact that Britney Spears is dressed inappropriately for a school girl which could create a stereotype for teenage school girls because of the provocative way Britney as a school girl has been portrayed. As-well as the lyrics she is singing which consists of  'When I'm not with you i lose my mind, Give me a sign, Hit me, baby, one more time' when being an audience hearing those lyrics who are supposed to be coming from a girl that is aged round 16 doesn't give off the best impression due to the fact that the song is about a boy and wanting I'm back, this is therefore not what society should be seeing because its giving the false impression that it is what all teenage girls act like and also what they are focused on which is boys and relationships. The lyrics consisting of "when I'm not with you I lose my mind" this makes out that Britney as a school girl is ratter desperate for this boy and cannot handle being without him, as a teenage girl watching and listening to this song as well as other songs like Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me. Taylor and Britney are both singing about boys and wanting them back or wanting to be back with them. In Taylor's song she is also perceived as a teenage girl. These two very popular songs can cause issues to do with how girls listening feel about themselves this is because seeing these two famous singers singing about boys can make you think that this is the way that it should be that you should be dependent on a boy and should always want a relationship. This perception of how Taylor and Britney sing about boys is somewhat unrealistic to most teenage girls or just not as focused on as not all teenage girls are focused on getting that boy back or to even have one in the first place. The consequences that can be extrapolated from these two videos as well as Justin Biebers video 'Baby" the two female singers both sing about boys and Justin sings about a girl. With these famous teenage singers and many more you always she same trend if they sing about love it’s about a person of the opposite sex, never singing about a same sex person. Seeing this over and over is creating an unreal image that differs allot from reality as there are many homosexual people. The songs communicate to teenage girls what a relationship should be like it creates the image that opposite sex relationships are what is 'normal' this can damage teenage girls as what you see and hear over and over again can make you as a person second guess what you believe in or what you feel because only seeing one side of sexuality can make you think that that is the only thing that is accepted into society when really that is not the case but the impression of what these songs are giving off doesn't support same sex relationships. Through the choice of what these singers choose to portray in their clips and lyrics’ is up to them the use portray these girl boy relationships due to the fact that that is what is perceived to be perfect and makes people listen to their music more because in some ways they try to relate it to their own life’s.