Pink Stupid girl
We start off with a young American girl aged around eight years who is by herself. This is shown through a POV shot of the girl looking at two piles of toys, each at the opposite side of the room. One pile was of girly dolls and a play house while on the other side there were more unisex toys such as pianos, an American rugby ball and other sports equipment.
Through a mid shot the mise-en scene shows a large amount of space around the girl sitting in a beige chair, in a grownup’s room. We get the sense of isolation; of being very much alone with no adults around her. This can denote the small figure of a child however it can also connote a fragile human being that can be easily manipulated.
This is followed by a close up where Pink is shown two different aspects of femininity that is represented with the angel and devil. The blonde hair and angel costume connotes a bright light of clouds and whiteness signifying purity and goodness , while her black hair and red devil costume denotes fire and danger that suggests her personality as fun and adventurous compared to the angel in which her hair is tied into a ponytail; connoting a reserved personality.
Pink wanted to show the young girls near her home in Los Angeles who were acting or aspiring to become hypersexual personas of celebrities’, one example is Mary Kate Olsen. Pink has dressed herself has dressed herself in different forms of hypersexual celebrities recreating an event that made them well known. For example, her parodies of women like Lindsay Lohan who causes accidents through negligent driving. Her mise-en-scene regarding her star persona shows her to be ditsy and self-centred as she hits a pedestrian while continuing to put lip gloss on her lips. Pink is representing the ideology of young females choosing the easy option of just shopping and looking good instead of using their intelligence and thinking of a career.
Pink used intertexuality where the TV randomly switches to a boho chic parody of Mary Kate Olsen. The mise-en scene of femininity represented with girly clothing, i.e. frilly dress boots and a handbag that fits little dogs. She is mocking the fact that these glamorous girls wear big shaded sunglasses to mask their real identity thus creating a star persona.
Pink codes and conventions challenges from the normal punk/rock female artist in which she questions the fact that women can be indepent and fisty she shows this as she runs along a with a ruby ball in her arm while pushing away all her attackers which are all male.
Pink’s star persona is that of a rock chick who is very independent and challenges how a woman should be viewed; not just decorative, sexual object but as a living breathing person with thoughts and ideas of their own. This is shown through her behaviour where she smashes a guitar in a music shop in her video ‘So What’. She subverts the conventions of exhibitions as she is not trying to be overtly sexual compared to Beyonce or Christina Aguillera.
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Pink shows of her femminin side by wearing womans clothing this subverts for a normal punk/rock artist as they would care what they are wearing or they would try to fot into a more masculine apperance
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