Music Video Analysis

Woman like me little mix

The song was written by four song writers including artists like Ed Sheeran and Jess Glynne

Woman like me was released on October 12 2018

The song also won British Artist video of the year at the Brit awards 2019

Product context-
- Little mix states that this song is a tribute to all women living around the world tomato them feel empowered and encourage them.
- They were forced to create this song because they believed that weren't many places to celebrate women.

Representation-

Little mix include various ways of presenting empowerment and undermine stereotypes in their music video. The music video starts off with the female group sitting inside a truck, that seems to be going to prison, wearing leotards because they had received hate in the past for wearing that particular clothing.

Later on, in the video all the women are standing on a giant ruler to emphasise that you cannot measure a females worth or weight.

The massive scales shown represent equality due to the fact that in this society men are seen as more dominant.

Nicki Minaj appears in the video in an art form because shes attempting to prove that she believes shes art since she also previously received a lot of hate.

Throughout the video, Jade especially eats very respectfully and poshly but gradually she starts eating whatever she wants and how ever she wants with no judgement.

Theories- 

Bell hooks feminism theory:

There are multiple references int he video which fight against gender stereotypes rather than objectify the women for wearing particular clothing pieces or pleasing  men in a type of way. Through the theory, it could imply the importance of female involvement in the equality movement. 

Roland Barthes Semiotics theory:

There are small details that could be analysed and interpreted which create enigma codes. For example, books are placed on their heads to reflect back to history which shows the comparison of the past and present portraying genders. According to Barthes,