Monday, 8 October 2012


I have chosen to form a group with one of my piers in my media class and we are going to be focusing on the RNB genre and our chosen artist is Nicki Minaj. We have chosen the song ‘Beez in the trap’ the video is mostly aimed at a teenage and older audience as they are able to understand the mise en scene in the video. The video is mainly performative as it doesn’t involve a clear narrative that we can read throughout the video and therefore could seem slightly unappealing to certain audiences. The crude lyrics are also going to be less appealing to the younger audience, the smoking and setting of nightclubs and Nicki Minaj’s lack of clothing in the video may also be seen as inappropriate by certain audiences. The idea of wealth is reflected throughout the video through the mise en scene, everyone is dancing and drinking with money to obviously spend in these nightclubs, good looking people dancing also gives an example of a certain lifestyle in which they are living. Younger audiences are not going to be able to relate to this, but also perhaps older audiences of 40+ are not able to relate to this either as that scene is probably no longer a part of their lifestyle. 

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