Lip Gloss: Lil Mama
1. What is the song basically saying about how to live a good life?I believe that the song is saying that to live a good life, you need to have good looks. As soon as she put that lip gloss on, she was part of the "cool crowd". The boys wanted to hang out with her, even the principle wanted to know where she got the lip gloss.
2. What lyrics particularly speak to that perspective?
The lyrics that i thought spoke to that perspective were how Lil Mama said to her mom at the end "Yo ma, this lip gloss is Poppin', Look at me! ". Also throughout the whole song, after she put on the lip gloss she was like "My Lip Gloss is cool, my Lip Gloss be poppin', I'm standin' at my locker, and all the boys keep stoppin". Those quotes show that all she needed to do was change her appearance, and her life improved dramatically.
3. How do the images support, re-orient, or challenge the dominant theme of the lyrics?
A reoccurring image in the video is the Lip Gloss shining on her lips. It wanted to reinforce the fact that all of this happened (the dancing and the boys and the popularity) because of the Lip Gloss; because she changed her appearance.
4. What else do you notice that's interesting? Look for internal contradictions, aspects of the message that resonate with other messages from the pop culture, points that connect to your own perspective, etc.
I notice that there is a lot of dancing and that no one in the video is "ugly". there are only two people in the video that are old: the principle and the mom and you don't even see her face in the video, and the principle is all disoriented and in need of the lip gloss.
6 comments:
I thought that your interpretation of the video was only half correct. Lip gloss doesn't change the look of the person dramatically, from your interpretation it sounds like the lip gloss made her look good "I believe that the song is saying that to live a good life, you need to have good looks. As soon as she put that lip gloss on, she was part of the "cool crowd". so I don't believe the video is implying that the video is about having good looks.
i agree with you that it was saying that to have a good life you gotta have looks. I also like how u pointed out that no one in the video was ugly i didnt focus on that.
Jace,
i agree with your analysis of the video. because she has lip gloss on, she is now cool. i like how you used the lyrics to back up your analysis, and ow you noticed that there are only good looking people in the video. i didn't notice that at first, btu after reading your analysis i realized that you were right.
-Rachel
I agree with your analysis of the video that good looks are something that it says is important in life. That there wasn't any ugly people was a pretty good point because people usually accept that the people in the video are there and don't really notice explicitly how they're like. There was also the dean or the principle in the video, and even though he isn't umm attractive he was also getting into the dancing too, so I think there's probably more to the message.
i agree with your analysis that good looks is important in life. And i think your right about the lip gloss and there are only good looking people in the video.
I agree with you that the video is saying how people need to have good looks to have a good life. I also believe that its not only good looks but the things that help you to achieve it. SIne she only got "good looking" and popular after the lip gloss. Also its all about your outside looks, not the things that are deeper than that. Thats why she says in the song "you don't know about me" Though i disagree with the ugly part because there was the nerd that wasn't good looking until she blew her lip gloss stuff on him.
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