By Jessica Watson
What makes a man seem manly or appealingly to women these days? In the 2010 hit song “Gangsta Love” by Snoop Dogg, we learn the rappers feelings about how men attract women be a successful man. The video is a typical hip hop video. Woman dressed in skimpy to no clothes dancing on men, nice cars, and fancy clubs. The song explains how his gangster swag and money makes him seem enchanting to lots of women.
In the first few seconds of the video we see Snoop and the Dream cruising around a beach town. In a nice car with stylish clothes on. The expensive car is a symbol of a manly man. The fact that they can afford a beautiful car like that is a turn on to women and makes them look like they are on a higher level compared to the men cruising on the beach with no autos. They both are wearing diamonds in there ears and chains of some sort around there neck. This and the car makes it obvious the two are “high class”. Next, we see tons of women dancing around in swimsuits blowing kisses, and flirty playing beach ball on the sand. They continue driving around in the car throughout the whole video. Almost seeming like the car is a must have to pickup girls. They begin brining in more and more girls into the car, and once the party wagon is packed the men pop champagne handing everyone a glass to show off their wealth. They continue catching the eyes of more girls with there gangster swag and styles. According to the video men must be rich enough to attract a woman and keep them coming back.
The men are dressed nicely in every scene of the video, you can tell they have money and care about what they look like in order to impress or pursue women, just by the clothes they are wearing. They sport classy dress shirts and designer jeans along with black and white vest tuxes and canes. The nice tuxedos are a common symbol of a successful man. They each have millions of dollars in diamonds, ranging from chains, earrings rings and glasses. The women in this video are also dressed to impress they try winning over snoop Dogg by wearing tiny swim suits, tight short dresses, and high heels. The men in the video are dressed in baggy clothes that are clean and fresh, compared to the tight and small amount of clothing the women are wearing. This is a common idea we see as men tend to act like the big mauncho man and by wearing bigger clothes it may make them feel they fit this role.
The song is called “Gangsta Love” they rap about how “every time I come around shawty love me down” The word choice they use here shortie pronounced “shawty” is a term used reapeadtly in hip-hop describing a women in which they have feelings of some sort for. This video is a prim example of how in society men are usually looked at as superior to women, this is shown several times throughout the video, it is most obvious in the last scene of the video when they are driving in the expensive car and Snoop Dogg is kicking his feet up and the women dressed in a small amount of clothing is happily spoon feeding him noodles. As the women feeds Snoop she plays out the common belief that men are superior to women and that a woman’s job is to treat men like a king of a higher class
The men are dressed nicely in every scene of the video, you can tell they have money and care about what they look like in order to impress or pursue women, just by the clothes they are wearing. They sport classy dress shirts and designer jeans along with black and white vest tuxes and canes. The nice tuxedos are a common symbol of a successful man. They each have millions of dollars in diamonds, ranging from chains, earrings rings and glasses. The women in this video are also dressed to impress they try winning over snoop Dogg by wearing tiny swim suits, tight short dresses, and high heels. The men in the video are dressed in baggy clothes that are clean and fresh, compared to the tight and small amount of clothing the women are wearing. This is a common idea we see as men tend to act like the big mauncho man and by wearing bigger clothes it may make them feel they fit this role.
The song is called “Gangsta Love” they rap about how “every time I come around shawty love me down” The word choice they use here shortie pronounced “shawty” is a term used reapeadtly in hip-hop describing a women in which they have feelings of some sort for. This video is a prim example of how in society men are usually looked at as superior to women, this is shown several times throughout the video, it is most obvious in the last scene of the video when they are driving in the expensive car and Snoop Dogg is kicking his feet up and the women dressed in a small amount of clothing is happily spoon feeding him noodles. As the women feeds Snoop she plays out the common belief that men are superior to women and that a woman’s job is to treat men like a king of a higher class
I agree with everything Jessica wrote about. I think that the symbolic nature of the woman feeding Snoop Dogg noodles at the end is very important, even though the scene only lasts a few seconds. Not only does it give the message that men are superior to women, but it also tells the viewer that women are there to serve men.
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