Creative Controversy Representations BethPage

Throughout the Media, Representations of women are forever developing and altering to reflect the cultural and sociological differences of our world today.However, female stereotyping in the media is now more frequent then ever which is calling upon the media stars of today to highlight this through their platforms.

Beyonce 'the Global star' is one of the highest-selling artists of all time selling over 118 million solo albums.Her Online appearance and presences allows her to spread her views on global issues including feminist messages with her 111 million followers. Her most controversial album Lemonade ( 2016) is structured to represent the Black Lives Matter campaign which Beyonce is avocet for. 

Formation Grammy Award winner for Best Music Video' 

Highlights the cultural and female stereotypes through out America and the difficulties that the public face when power is clearly manipulated. Strong themes of culture, control and order and female empowerment are evident throughout due to symbolic imagery and embedded messaging throughout her lyrics.

Lily Allen , British singer and song writer uses her controversial Lyrics to enforce power and female rights through her music. Her online persona often caused trouble in printed media with her often finding herself on the front page of the sun. 

'Hard out here' sold 30,213 copies in the first week of release and allowed her following of 5.9 million to access her view on social and culture problems which she has addressed through the song such as Male dominance, Female empowerment and stereotypical views of women.

The opening scene of Formation Beyonce is sitting on top of a New Orleans police car surrounded by water. A trope of debris empathises the natural disaster hurricane Katrina this is further shown by the prolog " what happened at the New Wil'ins". Imagery shown highlights the BLM ( Black lives Matter) campaign and the problems America is facing with police brutality which refers to Beyonce trying to suppress the police power by sitting on the top of it. 
The opening scene of Hard out here shows it audience Lily laying on an operating table taking part in liposuction, Barth's mythology theory is evident as Lily is trying to fit the status quo of a female celebrity. The prolog empathises this " letterman said no" this suggest that she is not being accepted on to tv because of the way she looks. A role of a manager is playing by a man " i just don't know who someone would let themselves get in this state" he is an overlooking power throughout the whole video. Similarly to Beyonce's Formation the over seeing control and power is shown highlighting how genders and minorities are suppressed by controlling figures in society. I will explore this further as well as the pressures of women to convert the stereotypes through out the blog.