To illustrate the relevance of our approach, we have selected two songs by mainstream female artists who offer compelling reflections on the nature of heterosexual love and the challenges it poses for both men and women. This paper presents and applies an analytic model for interpreting representations of gender, sexuality, and relationality in the words, music, and images of popular music videos. Our model has the potential to be applied to musical texts from the full range of musical genres and to shed light on a variety of social and cultural contexts at both the micro and macro levels.Ĭopyright © 2017 Society for Music Theory A model for the analysis of lyrics, music, and images according to cross-domain parameters ( thematic, spatial & temporal, relational, and gestural) facilitates the interpretation of the expressive content we consider. We explore Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of “liquid love” in connection with the selected videos. Two key examples-Pink’s pop video “Try” and Rihanna’s electropop video “We Found Love”-allow us to examine representations of complex human relationality and the paradoxical challenges of heterosexuality in late modernity. KEYWORDS: Pink, Rihanna, music video, popular music, cross-domain analysis, relationality, heterosexuality, liquid loveĪBSTRACT: This paper presents an interpretive approach to music video analysis that engages with critical scholarship in the areas of popular music studies, gender studies and cultural studies.
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