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The video I am going to look at for Stuart Hall's Reception Theory is 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus, as I think this will be interesting to watch for this particular theory. The video currently has 723,000,000+ views, which illustrates how popular the song is. I think the video is this popular due to how the artist used to have a 'Disney' image, and she then changed this by cutting her hair and 'murdering' her persona 'Hannah Montana'.
Dominant: The meaning of this song is how she is in love with someone and doesn't have this person in her life any more. She felt she was restricted in the relationship and this was causing her pain as she isn't getting what she wants. The wrecking ball reflects the destruction in the relationship and how this caused pain for her.
Negotiated: Some viewers of the song will see this as inappropriate for the artist to do (especially parents of young fans of the artist). They understand how the video reflects the lyrics of the song and how the artist being naked is supposed to represent her being 'stripped' of power in the relationship, but think that this could have been done in a different way which would be suitable for audiences of all ages.
Oppositional: People feel the song is completely inappropriate and the video is irrelevant to the lyrics. They feel that the artist has taken off her clothes for no reason except getting attention from heterosexual males, which joins with Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory, as she suggests that females in the media are seen as objects and are there to simple be looked at.
I think that this video was done by Miley to be taken seriously in the industry and not to be seen in the way that she was as she played the character Hannah Montana. I think that this was a clever way to be noticed as she caused people to talk, and she was quoted to say 'If you're going to make people talk, it should be for 2 weeks and not 2 seconds'. I think this is what she did when she released this video, due to it still being a popular song today, a year after its release.
The video I am going to look at for Stuart Hall's Reception Theory is 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus, as I think this will be interesting to watch for this particular theory. The video currently has 723,000,000+ views, which illustrates how popular the song is. I think the video is this popular due to how the artist used to have a 'Disney' image, and she then changed this by cutting her hair and 'murdering' her persona 'Hannah Montana'.
Dominant: The meaning of this song is how she is in love with someone and doesn't have this person in her life any more. She felt she was restricted in the relationship and this was causing her pain as she isn't getting what she wants. The wrecking ball reflects the destruction in the relationship and how this caused pain for her.
Negotiated: Some viewers of the song will see this as inappropriate for the artist to do (especially parents of young fans of the artist). They understand how the video reflects the lyrics of the song and how the artist being naked is supposed to represent her being 'stripped' of power in the relationship, but think that this could have been done in a different way which would be suitable for audiences of all ages.
Oppositional: People feel the song is completely inappropriate and the video is irrelevant to the lyrics. They feel that the artist has taken off her clothes for no reason except getting attention from heterosexual males, which joins with Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory, as she suggests that females in the media are seen as objects and are there to simple be looked at.
I think that this video was done by Miley to be taken seriously in the industry and not to be seen in the way that she was as she played the character Hannah Montana. I think that this was a clever way to be noticed as she caused people to talk, and she was quoted to say 'If you're going to make people talk, it should be for 2 weeks and not 2 seconds'. I think this is what she did when she released this video, due to it still being a popular song today, a year after its release.
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