Lady Gaga (born this way and telephone)
- she does pop music
- she is an LGBT activist
- she is "mother monster" essentially a mother to her fans
Lady Gaga - million reasons
- was a direct sequel to the song perfect illusion (both from the album Joanne)
- same setting
- the ending of PI is the start of MR
- the album is a tribute to her aunt that died of lupus
- religious connotations
- rosary
- "praying" "lord"
- someone behind her at the end with a crucifix
- unstable relationship with either people or her fame
- 2015 depressed and wanted to quit music
- repetition of "a million reasons" highlights uncertainty
- wanted to give fans a personal view of her life
- wanted the videos to reflect her life
WHAT GENERAL STEREOTYPES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH WOMEN? LIST 3 THINGS.
1.Long hair
2.Domestication
3.Helpless
WHAT STEREOTYPES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH WOMEN IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY?? LIST 3 THINGS.
1.Sexy (only in underwear, provocative)
2.Feminine (not masculine music such as rock or metal)
3.Breakup songs (emotional)
They are shown as…
•Young
•Slim
•Overwhelmingly white
•Conforming to our image of ideal beauty (perfect skin, hair and alluring gaze).
Representations of women across all media tend to
highlight the following:
•beauty (within narrow conventions)
•size/physique (again, within narrow conventions)
•sexuality (as expressed by the above)
•emotional (as opposed to intellectual) dealings
•relationships (as opposed to independence/
freedom)
STEREOTYPES IN MILLION REASONS
She is wearing a stereotypical female outfit because pink clothing links to femininity as pink is seen as a "girly" colour, she is also wearing heels which are very feminine shoes. A counter stereotype is the cowboy hat and the fact she is wearing trousers (in older days only men wore trousers)
vulnerable alone in the desert which is an example of a "damsel in distress" getting help from friends.
The cowboy is an icon of masculinity, rough and tough, a very tradition representation of males. she used this masculine figure to show the power of females and maybe projecting feminism. She did this by making the outfit pink and using heels instead of cowboy boots it is a stereotypically feminine outfit because pink clothing links to femininity as pink is seen as a "girly" colour, she is also wearing heels which are very feminine shoes as males do not wear them.
In what way is the representation of an all-female crew a countertype representation of the media industry.
it's a counterstereotype because when you think about crews it is usually filled with males, but lady gaga has a very even crew as she has a lot of male and female crew.
In what way is the video depicting the musician as a musician on the road, representing the drudgery behind the glamour of performance
its showing lady gaga to be broken down and giving up (laying in the desert alone), it also shows that even if you're famous you may need help from others
Propps character theory
Functions
After the initial situation is depicted, the tale takes the following sequence of 31 functions:
- ABSENTATION: A member of the hero's community or family leaves the security of the home environment. This may be the hero themselves, or some other relation that the hero must later rescue. This division of the cohesive family injects initial tension into the storyline. This may serve as the hero's introduction, typically portraying them as an ordinary person.
- INTERDICTION: A forbidding edict or command is passed upon the hero ('don't go there', 'don't do this'). The hero is warned against some action.
- VIOLATION of INTERDICTION. The prior rule is violated. Therefore the hero did not listen to the command or forbidding edict. Whether committed by the Hero by accident or temper, a third party or a foe, this generally leads to negative consequences. The villain enters the story via this event, although not necessarily confronting the hero. They may be a lurking and manipulative presence, or might act against the hero's family in his absence.
- RECONNAISSANCE: The villain makes an effort to attain knowledge needed to fulfill their plot. Disguises are often invoked as the villain actively probes for information, perhaps for a valuable item or to abduct someone. They may speak with a family member who innocently divulges a crucial insight. The villain may also seek out the hero in their reconnaissance, perhaps to gauge their strengths in response to learning of their special nature.
- DELIVERY: The villain succeeds at recon and gains a lead on their intended victim. A map is often involved in some level of the event.
- TRICKERY: The villain attempts to deceive the victim to acquire something valuable. They press further, aiming to con the protagonists and earn their trust. Sometimes the villain make little or no deception and instead ransoms one valuable thing for another.
- COMPLICITY: The victim is fooled or forced to concede and unwittingly or unwillingly helps the villain, who is now free to access somewhere previously off-limits, like the privacy of the hero's home or a treasure vault, acting without restraint in their ploy.
- VILLAINY or LACKING: The villain harms a family member, including but not limited to abduction, theft, spoiling crops, plundering, banishment or expulsion of one or more protagonists, murder, threatening a forced marriage, inflicting nightly torments and so on. Simultaneously or alternatively, a protagonist finds they desire or require something lacking from the home environment (potion, artifact, etc.). The villain may still be indirectly involved, perhaps fooling the family member into believing they need such an item.
- MEDIATION: One or more of the negative factors covered above comes to the attention of the Hero, who uncovers the deceit/perceives the lacking/learns of the villainous acts that have transpired.
- BEGINNING COUNTERACTION: The hero considers ways to resolve the issues, by seeking a needed magical item, rescuing those who are captured or otherwise thwarting the villain. This is a defining moment for the hero, one that shapes their further actions and marks the point when they begin to fit their noble mantle.
- DEPARTURE: The hero leaves the home environment, this time with a sense of purpose. Here begins their adventure.
- FIRST FUNCTION OF THE DONOR: The hero encounters a magical agent or helper (donor) on their path, and is tested in some manner through interrogation, combat, puzzles or more.
- HERO'S REACTION: The hero responds to the actions of their future donor; perhaps withstanding the rigours of a test and/or failing in some manner, freeing a captive, reconciles disputing parties or otherwise performing good services. This may also be the first time the hero comes to understand the villain's skills and powers, and uses them for good.
- RECEIPT OF A MAGICAL AGENT: The hero acquires use of a magical agent as a consequence of their good actions. This may be a directly acquired item, something located after navigating a tough environment, a good purchased or bartered with a hard-earned resource or fashioned from parts and ingredients prepared by the hero, spontaneously summoned from another world, a magical food that is consumed, or even the earned loyalty and aid of another.
- GUIDANCE: The hero is transferred, delivered or somehow led to a vital location, perhaps related to one of the above functions such as the home of the donor or the location of the magical agent or its parts, or to the villain.
- STRUGGLE: The hero and villain meet and engage in conflict directly, either in battle or some nature of contest.
- BRANDING: The hero is marked in some manner, perhaps receiving a distinctive scar or granted a cosmetic item like a ring or scarf.
- VICTORY: The villain is defeated by the hero – killed in combat, outperformed in a contest, struck when vulnerable, banished, and so on.
- LIQUIDATION: The earlier misfortunes or issues of the story are resolved; object of search are distributed, spells broken, captives freed.
- RETURN: The hero travels back to their home.
- PURSUIT: The hero is pursued by some threatening adversary, who perhaps seek to capture or eat them.
- RESCUE: The hero is saved from a chase. Something may act as an obstacle to delay the pursuer, or the hero may find or be shown a way to hide, up to and including transformation unrecognisably. The hero's life may be saved by another.
- UNRECOGNIZED ARRIVAL: The hero arrives, whether in a location along their journey or in their destination, and is unrecognised or unacknowledged.
- UNFOUNDED CLAIMS: A false hero presents unfounded claims or performs some other form of deceit. This may be the villain, one of the villain's underlings or an unrelated party. It may even be some form of future donor for the hero, once they've faced their actions.
- DIFFICULT TASK: A trial is proposed to the hero – riddles, test of strength or endurance, acrobatics and other ordeals.
- SOLUTION: The hero accomplishes a difficult task.
- RECOGNITION: The hero is given due recognition – usually by means of their prior branding.
- EXPOSURE: The false hero and/or villain is exposed to all and sundry.
- TRANSFIGURATION: The hero gains a new appearance. This may reflect aging and/or the benefits of labour and health, or it may constitute a magical remembering after a limb or digit was lost (as a part of the branding or from failing a trial). Regardless, it serves to improve their looks.
- PUNISHMENT: The villain suffers the consequences of their actions, perhaps at the hands of the hero, the avenged victims, or as a direct result of their own ploy.
- WEDDING: The hero marries and is rewarded or promoted by the family or community, typically ascending to a throne.
Some of these functions may be
inverted, such as the hero receives an artifact of power whilst still at home, thus fulfilling the donor function early. Typically such functions are negated twice, so that it must be repeated
three times in Western cultures.
Characters
He also concluded that all the characters could be resolved into 7 broad
character functions in the 100 tales he analyzed:
- The villain — an evil character that creates struggles for the hero.
- The dispatcher — any character who illustrates the need for the hero's quest and sends the hero off. This often overlaps with the princess's father.
- The helper — a typically magical entity that comes to help the hero in their quest.
- The princess or prize, and often her father — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her as a consequence of some evil or injustice, perhaps the work of the villain. The hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, which constitutes the villain's defeat.
- The donor — a character that prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object, sometimes after testing them.
- The hero — the character who reacts to the dispatcher and donor characters, thwarts the villain, resolves any lacking or wronghoods and weds the princess.
- The false hero — a Miles Gloriosus figure who takes credit for the hero's actions or tries to marry the princess.[6]
These roles could sometimes be distributed among various characters, as the hero kills the villain dragon, and the dragon's sisters take on the villainous role of chasing him. Conversely, one character could engage in acts as more than one role, as a father could send his son on the quest and give him a sword, acting as both dispatcher and donor.
Identify key aspects of the text which represent Gaga as “the vulnerable female”
Add screenshots and annotate descriptions
Gaga is represented as the vulnerable female/damsel in distress because she is emotional, alone and her friends come to her to help her. She would be the princess in Propps character theory.
Task 9: Lady Gaga – AS attractive, star.
Identify key aspects of the text which represent Gaga within the narrow conventions of music videos “a young and conventionally attractive, star”
conventionally in the media men are attracted to slim, white blonde haired women with blue eyes. Gaga is conventionally attractive because you can see that she has bleached her air to be blonde when she naturally is a brunette. She is also in good physical shape with a slim body, though now tastes are changing and the media are going for "thicker" women such as Beyonce and Nicki Minaj. A lot of people find European white women to be conventionally attractive, she fits into this because she is of Italian and French Canadian descent.
How might this representation have negative implications.
this might have negative implications because her (female) fans can view it as that's what they should look like and they could use unhealthy ways to reach the stage that she is at with her weight mostly.
According to popular stereotypes during the post-Reconstruction era, "Black Buck" was a black man (usually muscular or tall) who defies white will and is largely destructive to American society. He is usually hot-tempered, excessively violent, unintelligent, and sexually attracted to white women. Most often, any attempt to restrain, reprimand, or re-educate the individual will fail, necessitating the individual's immediate execution (usually by lynching).
the costume is similar to teenagers prom wear in the 1970s/80s. 
it's not as sexual as ricks James' super freak.
