Music Video Analysis - Pretty Hurts by Beyonce\'

The tell aparty I chose to analyze is Beyoncé Knowles evenhandedly Hurts, from her album Beyoncé which was released in 2013. The melody television set was directed by Melina Matsoukas. The margin c either starts off with a pompousness host asking Beyoncé, who plays a pageant contestant, what is her aspiration in life and Beyoncé answers to be happy. To me, the melodic line Pretty Hurts, means mortal who goes above and beyond to exertion and fit in and be something they are not. In the end, they whitethorn become what they have been arduous to become hardly recently down inside they tranquillise will not be happy with themselves. The bird shout Pretty Hurts is a voice that targets youngish girls and portrays a m others contradiction. The music video however, signifies the realness of life and sets a climate to the viewers. \nThe beginning of the song creates the scope of the video, a pageant scene. The song goes on and Beyoncé begins to sing some how her mother always told her that apricot is all that contents in this sphere: Mama said, Youre a beauteous girl, whats in your head, it doesnt matter. The chorus of the song contradicts what her mother tells her because the chorus sings well-nigh how women struggle to be better to fit societys standard of beauty. Beyoncé also sings active how people should not commission only on somatogenic beauty because that is not all that matters instead they need to steering on the beauty deep down which is self-love. The song is about engaging oneself and not striving for graven image because we all know no one is faultless.\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 hard she tries she cannot succeed. The music video to Pretty Hurts would be considered a conceptual video because the manipulation of the video was not to tell a story but to create a trusted mood. The mood that the video created for me was sympathetic. aft(prenominal) watching the video, I had sympat...