Pop music evaluation

In My opinion, the music genre of ‘Vogue’ by ‘Madonna’, is pop. This is based off of not only the actual song itself, and the beat and tempo of it, but also the music video. The music video demonstrates Madonna as a pop idol in this video because of the way that she is sexualised for the inevitable male gaze that will take place with the video. This gives the watcher a clear understanding that this is a pop video because it is primarily with pop idols that they are displayed in this way within their music videos.

One of the many examples of this from other artists is Taylor swift in the song ‘shake it off’.

In the music video for shake it off, Taylor Swift (The lead singer), is displayed wearing revealing clothing in almost every single dance sequence. We can also see that she is surrounded by other woman wearing revealing clothing in this particular sequence. From this we can infer that most Pop songs, are made out to be Pop songs by music videos, and having the woman be sexualised for the purpose of the male gaze.

Another similarity that I see between ‘Vogue’ and other music videos is the use of exotic and unique sets.

This is evident in the music video vogue at all times. Because there are always things in the background that make it seem like they are on an actual set, or paintings to show that they are in an art gallery etc.…

If we compare this to the setting of a Rock music video, then we can clearly see that the settings are usually far more hectic, and a lot more generic. Like in ‘Avenged Sevenfolds’ music video for ‘God damn’.