"Why Don't You Love Me" - Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo.
Conforms to damaging sexual norms/feminist critique of the most common ways women try to please men and their inherent fail? Discuss.
Conforms to damaging sexual norms/feminist critique of the most common ways women try to please men and their inherent fail? Discuss.
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I'm going to go with "mostly a feminist critique" for the video, with a side caveat of the fact that Beyonce seems to be close to naked in most of the videos I've seen lately and this was no exception, which is a sexist requirement of women in music.
Overall? I liked it. I think it benefited from the fact that we see a descent of the characters as their efforts to be perfect stereotypes fall apart from inherent silliness. I'm not a big fan of the fact that the song discusses a woman who apparently has everything yet is still obsessed about not getting a man's approval, yet I appreciated that she ended the song with "Well, maybe you're dumb."
ETA: I like Beyonce's sense of silly theater; she pulls it off.
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And I think you pinpointed something in separating the imagery from the lyrics - because the images DO emphasize something that is only faintly apparent from the lyrics.