Goodwin 7 - homework

The Goodwin 7-

1. Music videos demonstrate certain genre characteristics.
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals.
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals.
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist.
5. The artist may develop motifs or iconography that recur across their work.
6. There is a frequent reference to the notion of 'looking' and particulary voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
7. There are often intertextual references - mostly to film, television and popular culture. 

The video for Without me by rap artist Eminem includes many of the Goodwin 7. The entire video is focused around the artist which falls in line of lots of close ups of him. Throughout the video women are generalised as a sex. The video begins with the artist waking up in bed next to two barely dressed women showing the sexualisation of women. There is a strong relationship between visuals and the lyrics throughout the song. There are lots of references to television within the video along side lots of other popular culture references.

twisted sister - were not gonna take it video review homework

We're not gonna take it was a single released by the rock group Twisted sister on April 27th 1984. The video was filmed after the singles success in mainly the U.K and the U.S.A as well as other countries around the world. The video depicts a young boy standing up to his essentially abusive father and was at first very controversial for the depiction of what they thought was the standard American family. The video shows the young boy being yelled at by his father and standing up to him stating "I wanna rock" whilst strumming his guitar blasting the father through the window whilst the young boy transforms into the bands lead singer, Dee Snider. Dee snider then runs around the house transforming the rest of the family into members of the band, who now go after the father singing along with the lines "we're not gonna take it".

It was controversial and even led to the creation of the Parents Resource Music Center who fought for  explicit content labels to be put on any music cassettes, cds or records. Although there was controversy the video was famed for its originality and filming style. Almost to be based around traditional American tv houses it showed the possibly wrong side of America that they wanted other countries to see, as well as reflecting back Dee Snider's own relationship with his father.