Music Video Analysis - Pretty Hurts by Beyonce\'

The picture I chose to analyze is Beyoncé Knowles fair Hurts, from her album Beyoncé which was released in 2013. The harmony pictorial matter was directed by Melina Matsoukas. The verse starts off with a pageantry host inquire Beyoncé, who plays a pageant contestant, what is her inclination in life and Beyoncé answers to be happy. To me, the poesy Pretty Hurts, heart someone who goes above and beyond to try and fit in and be something they are non. In the end, they may become what they stand been trying to become scarcely deep down inside(a) they still will non be happy with themselves. The song Pretty Hurts is a juncture that targets young girls and portrays a induces contradiction. The music television recording however, signifies the reality of life and sets a mood to the viewers.\nThe beginning of the song creates the setting of the video, a pageant scene. The song goes on and Beyoncé begins to whistle close to how her mother eer told her that lulu is all that matters in this world: Mama said, Youre a pretty girl, whats in your head, it doesnt matter. The utter of the song contradicts what her mother tells her because the let loose sings about how women struggle to be perfect to fit troupes standard of beauty. Beyoncé in like manner sings about how people should non focus only on physical beauty because that is non all that matters instead they take on to focus on the beauty within which is self-love. The song is about loving oneself and not try for perfection because we all fuck no one is perfect.\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 purpose of the video was not to tell a tier but to create a certain mood. The mood that the video created for me was sympathetic. After watching the video, I had sympat...