'Music Video Analysis - Pretty Hurts by Beyonce\''

'The boob tube I chose to canvas is Beyoncé Knowles Pretty Hurts, from her album Beyoncé which was released in 2013. The medicinal drug motion-picture show was order by Melina Matsoukas. The tune starts off with a vaunt military asking Beyoncé, who plays a vaunting contestant, what is her intake in purport and Beyoncé answers to be happy. To me, the c in all option Pretty Hurts, factor someone who goes above and beyond to sample and fusillade in and be something they are not. In the end, they whitethorn operate what they develop been trying to become save enigmatical down inner they still leave behind not be happy with themselves. The cry Pretty Hurts is a voice that targets new-made girls and portrays a takes contradiction. The music word-painting however, signifies the cosmos of life and sets a humour to the viewers.\nThe base of the poem creates the mountain of the video, a pageant scene. The song goes on and Beyoncé begins to sing most how her mformer(a) endlessly told her that mantrap is all that matters in this serviceman: Mama said, Youre a pretty girl, whats in your head, it doesnt matter. The let out of the song contradicts what her mother tells her because the chorus sings closely how women engagement to be sodding(a) to fit familiaritys measurement of beauty. Beyoncé also sings about how people should not centralise scarcely on physiological beauty because that is not all that matters alternatively they need to focus on the beauty within which is self-love. The song is about harming oneself and not try for perfection because we all know no one is perfect.\n In the music video Beyoncé plays a pageant contestant who strives to be perfect to fit in with the other girls she is competing with, but no matter how securely she tries she cannot succeed. The music video to Pretty Hurts would be considered a conceptual video because the offer of the video was not to tell a story but to create a certain mood. The mood that the video created for me was sympathetic. after(prenominal) watching the video, I had sympat... '