analysis of a music video - cassidy's get no better

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Analysis of music videos Essay

 A music video is a visual representation of a song. You find them on modern day music on T.V channels like MTV. They’re popular in today’s society because they show that the artist(s) are like and help tell you what the song is about. They influence and reflect culture as kids/teenagers want to be like the artist(s) because some artists have violence and swearing, which makes the younger people want to be just like them. So they appeal to their audience through there behaviour

 The music video I will be reviewing is Cassidy’s ‘Get No Better’. The artists in the band are Cassidy and Mashonda. The video is about Cassidy trying to get Mashonda into bed by saying it ‘don’t get no better’ than being with him.

 The main artist in the video is Cassidy who sings a hip hop/rap genre of music. In the video Cassidy arrives at the house party and sees Mashonda and tries to get her into bed. In the rest of this essay I am going to write about the representation of the artist in the video. This will just be the view we get of him in the video. In the video the artist is wearing lots of jewellery and baggy bright coloured cloths. This suggests that he is young and cool and a bit of a gangster. It shows that he is fashionable and wealthy. In the video Cassidy arrives at a house party and instantly tries to get a girl into bed.

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This shows that he is setting the image that he is a player and can get any girl he wants. The connotations of these actions are that he sees women as objects and he only wants them for fun. The artist is a negative role model because he shows that women are objects and only good for sex. Some older people would think Cassidy is a

negative role model because in the video he has women who are really skinny and not eating enough food also its just about women’s figures and not there personality’s. The artist in ...

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