Music Video

Seen as i studied Chritstina Aguilera, and seen as her Dirty video was well known for it critism and unpopularity in the USA i am curiously going to study the video itself, finding it denotions and conotations, and how it represents different aspects, also i will be discussing why the USA didnt take to it that much.


Start to Finish

At the beginning of the music video, Christina Aguilera is dressed and displayed differently from her original music videos where she would be girly and full of beauty, but in this video she is in a drak green room, which is mainly shadowed, she is outlined where hardly anything, walking towards her scruffy motorbike, wearnig nothing but a pair of flimsy nickers a black leaver belt matching her knee high leather boots, you cant make out what top she is wearing because her new long dreadlocks are covering it. The music video is now flashing to two characters extreme close ups, one man and a woman, the woman is Christina Aguilera, who is wearing nateral make up, cler lip gloss which is then funked up be her thick eye make up and nose peircing. The shots of these two characters are different and very effective, both dark backgrounds, shadows casted on their faces, showing the dark side of them.

The American singer Christina then kips up her red, black and white lever jacket, but it is not just a simple shot of this, the shot is a complete close up, showing her clear bare skin being closed in, to me this is either hiding the innocence, or hiding her true self. As she is zipping up her jacket, i notice she is wearing black leaver gloves with little gold studs, the gloves are cut of were her fingers are i feel this is a grungy look, and cretes a feel of excitement. She then places on her motorbike helmet, this has completely transformed her look from her original videos.

The video is then woken up and now livens up, when the singer Aguilera revs up her motorbike and zooms off, a shot of her motorbikes wheels. She then paces through her green room, and into another world, where a crowd of people have formed a path and are chanting for the singer on the motorbike, i also notice that most of the crowd chanting are all men, this shows the power that the singer has over men and herself in the video.

The next clip is of Christina Aguilera still dressed in her motorbike outfit, in a cage, the cage represents danger and control. The cage is then lowered into a wrestling ring, where she is surrounded by half naked men outside the ring, she is now center of attention, it feels like she is the mens dream, and they are dreaming.

The next shot is of Christina Aguilera sitting in the corner of the ring, dancing as her legs are at a 90 degree angle, she is surrounded by half naked oiled men. The following shot is now of Christina and a few other girls on the wrestling ring dancing, i like how the wrestling ring has been transformed, they group of girls in the wrestling ring are dancing irroticly, to me i  feel this is new type of seduction because usually it would be classed as red lipstick and blonde hair and a black dress, but this is new seduction, all the girls are dancing on the floor and giving it their all moves.

The change of scene, means that Christina Aguilera is wearing a mini grey skirt, knee high black boots, and cutted top just bellow the chest. She is now in a dark set room with a group of other dancers, all dancing the same moves, i noticed that they are all oiled up looking sweaty, giving of more signs of sexual tones. Back to the wrestling ring, where Christina Aguilera aka the girl with the blode locks wearing barely anythink, just leaver, leaver and more leaver, and the other girl in the wrestling ring brown hair, blue and white mask, and matching costume; this suggests competition, between two different types of girls, the blonde one wins, but originally i think if it was any other video then the brunette would win, because it is stereotypical that all brunettes are better than blondes. Whilst they are fighting they are refferied by two half naked oiled men, no more to be said about it, as this suggests only but sexism.

The next bit to the music video is were the man at the begginning returns to the shots were he is walking down a long corridor, in a club, where lots of girls surround him and try for his attention but he walks on rapping to the screen, whilst women are around the rapping man, men are round the singer Christina, the rapping man is wearing all black; including black sun glasses, black hat, black shirt, and so on. He then walks past a room were there is a group of people having a mud fight. Christina Aguilera is now in a big showers room, the room is dirty, and water is spraying out making her and the other dancers wet, they are all dancing together holding eachover seductivly, break dancing and all sorts. And inside another room is a group of men break dancing, this room is set differently, they are wearing just bottoms and the walls are filled with graffiti this is like a comparision/competition. The end of the song is were all the men and women dancers are together.

USA-

I can understand why maybe the Americans dont like this video, but i love it, the Americans may feel that she has changed completly, and i feel that maybe she is wrong when she says that this music video reflect on her personality. But i like the new look and how she experimented with different ideas, her msuic video certainly does stand out.