Mainstream artists use strong female roles, creative costuming in music videos
Katy Perry — "E.T." featuring Kanye West
Everyone has one nowadays — a music video staged in outer space or the future. Katy Perry is no exception and manages to combine both themes in one video while experimenting with the kind of weird we'd only expect from Lady Gaga.
The video for her song "E.T." featuring Kanye West is definitely "extraterrestrial." The video takes place sometime after 2030, the year that, according to the video, pigeons become extinct. Earth looks like one huge landfill, and Perry plays an alien floating through space. She comes from out of this world to find love, finding it with a man who appears to be a black albino.
Perhaps Perry is hinting at the theory that in the future only one race will exist. The only serious problem with this video is the excessive floating done by Kanye West and Katy Perry. We get it. You're in space, where there is no gravity. Regardless, Katy Perry makes a pretty hot alien.
Britney Spears — "Till The World Ends"
Britney Spears is no stranger to the futuristic or intergalactic look either. The new video for her single "Till The World Ends" is reminiscent of her most recent video, "Hold It Against Me," except this video displays more of the Britney that everybody knows and loves: the one with all of the sexy dance moves, and almost four whole minutes of them.
As the world crumbles outside, Britney and her people party underground. The video ends with Britney coming out of a manhole, the sun shining outside. Britney Spears is coming back with a vengeance, her sex appeal is as high as ever and with her continuous club hits and powerful videos, she is sure to keep her fans dancing until the world ends.
Porcelain Black — "This Is What Rock 'N' Roll Looks Like"
Apparently rock 'n' roll looks like a girl with half blonde hair and half black, dressed in, of course, leather and lace.
New mainstream artist Porcelain Black's video for her single, "This Is What Rock 'N' Roll Looks Like," begins with her as a young girl in a school yard being taunted by preppy girls dressed in pink. She is saved by a young Lil Wayne, rocking dread locks, who runs the girls off. See, he was a gangster even as a kid on the playground. The video then shows her nine years later with a rockin' entourage, as they pass the group of the now-older bullies, Porcelain Black gives them the middle finger.
Porcelain and her entourage spend the rest of the video showing their high school what rock 'n' roll looks like, from students studying in the library to the cheerleaders at the pep rally. "Hey, hey, hey, if you're ready to rage, raise your hands up" because Porcelain Black may just be the next big thing.
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