4 C's of Media #1 - Media as a Construct of Reality

1. and 2. - Reality in Britney Spears - Baby One More Time' is presented as a inappropriate party in your pants, all the girls just burst out of the class in provocative clothing that would never be allowed in actual school. Way more girls then guys, and teachers hardly exist, let alone any authority of any kind. No body sit in gym, and all they do is dribble basketballs. The school might as well be a play boy mansion. The bigger slut you are, the more popular/successful you are. great message!

3. The stereotypes that are the most evident in the pop song are in most others. They are the coordinated dance scenes, provocative clothing on the women, and the nonsensical random dancing for no reason. In the end, everythign is great, that usually transfers across all pop. A dance solves the conflict, with high energy beats.

4. What creeds and values? All the music video si is a random orgy of scantilly clad woman and dancing. Basically the message is that if you dance in the gym, the teachers come in and dance with you and you get an A! All sarcasm aside, it really is a terrible message for growing up teens, saying the sluttier the better of you'll be.

5. Most pop music videos, (and most music vidoes in general) are targeted to teenagers becasue they are shown to be more susceptible to being influenced by media. If aparticular girl names britney wears special brand name sweat pants, they want them too. people who want to be Brittney will buy this CD, and they wanna be her because she seem popular and successful and has an easy, unrealistic life in this videos.

6. I think this is bad music video. The quality being portrayed leaves nothing of value and questions of what kinda crack were the producers on. The take on reality this is totally skewd, everything in a slutty and to be blunt, stale lens. This has been done before. Its all great in school, it teaches girls to be sluts, to not try to get good grades since classes seem to contain nothing more then waiting for the bell to ring. A good music video leaves you feeling satisfied and you get feeling they actually tried and it was not just for money. This is the exact opposite. Product placement on the clothes everywhere, and cheap sex appeal. Not good.