Male Gaze music video

Male gaze music video

Nicki Minaj - Anaconda

Throughout this video we see several scenes associated with sex, twerking and nudity.

Within the first 20 seconds of the video we are shown Nicki with 2 other women displaying their backsides towards the camera, this quick introduction to the sexual theme of the video immediately shows how they are going to promote the song, which is already written about women's arses'.

at about the 24 second mark, the camera zooms out and we are met with a host of more women, also revealing there posterior and twerking, this is carrying on the sexual theme as it is a way of women getting attention towards their buttocks from men, this promotes the male gaze stereotype that women are only there for sexual pleasure or to inspire the male.

Around the 3:25 mark, Nikki is seen to be giving a male (Drake) a lap dance to pleasure him. 

this scene is used to make males imagine being in that position and can have c+onnotations of sex, pleasure and intimacy. All this promotes the male gaze as it also supports the fact the women have no purpose but to pleasure a man in the media industry despite the song being sung by a woman, the music video promotes the male gaze and how women need a big arse. 

We are next greeted with a scene of Nikki in a pool, she is presented as wet, messy hair and with little clothing we also associate the image with sex, pleasure and orgasms.

The setting is quite utopias which is insinuating this is all imaginary and in a perfect world this would be how it is but also a reminder that this scene was not real and could be exhibiting the idea that this is a males idea of perfection, but is certainly not how all women like to be perpetrated.