Analysis of P!nks “Stupid Girls” Music video

Analysis of P!nks “Stupid Girls” Music video

·         Messages and how they are constructed inc representations of gender

·         Different readings: reference Gauntlett and feminist theorists

Pinks music video for her song “Stupid girls” was released in 2006 directed by David Myers. It’s a depiction of various tropes and norms that a majority or handful of women (labelled as “stupid girls” in this song) undergo due to the influence of the media, trends and celebrities of that period.

Our video opens with a little girl watching TV. The binary opposition comes into play as and an Angel and Devil appears over each of the girls shoulder. The angel wants to prevent the girl following the Medias representation of women whereas the devils wants the girls to conform and become those representations. The angel donning a stylised short dyed hair normally associated with males and the devil acquiring long straight dark hair wearing make-up. From what we talked about before the devil seems to be an accurate representation of what a stereotypical women is meant to look like also note that all the various stereotypes Pink plays are all seen through the TV, this and the physical appearance of the devil is possibly commenting on the fact that either Society or the media (or both influencing each other) in general is the real enemy.

The TV begins to show a black and white footage of an all-female classroom with the word “Etiquette” written on the whiteboard. Quite clearly this is a mocking a pre modernist class teaching women how to abide by their customary code/behaviour in society. This is commenting on how misogynistic representations of women have been around throughout the past and yet nothing has changed.

Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears and Mary Kate Olsen etc are all celebs of the early 2000s who influenced young girls to follow their toxic lifestyles as shown in the video, just to list a few: wearing expensive designer clothes, acting like a hooligan, adopting little dogs, featuring as back up dancers in male songs, intentionally releasing a sex tape and the age all classic bikini car wash.

The little girl laughing at Pink walking into a glass door directly reflect the uses and gratification theory as the girls gets a laugh from it normalizing this attitude that female humour lies in making an idiot out of yourself.