Comparative Analysis: Aguilera's 'Beautiful' vs Beyoncé's 'Pretty Hurts'

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Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" is a song/music video that was meant for a much broader audience verses Beyoncé's "Pretty Hurts" which was meant for a more feminine audience that brought up subjects of anorexia,starvation,body modifications,and self-esteem. "Beautiful" was meant for more of a wider audience such as those dealing with body image,sexuality,and gender identity. There are little to few similarities when I comes to these two female pop stars. it's obvious one could be seen that they're dealing with a self image or self-esteem

Beyoncé "Pretty Hurts" has more of a connection with pageants, modeling, and advertisement depictions of Women versus what it takes for them to be this way. while Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" has the …show more content…

By showcasing her personal involvement with them. This possibly gives more attraction towards the subject to come to mainly dealing with the pageant girls and issues that they have to deal with such as eating the cotton balls so the stomach pains won't make them suffer on stage and how they have to be a certain height and weight , how they had to talk and wave in a certain way. Though these two videos show lots of involvement with current body issues that may manifest in many women these days. They do have their differences such as Christina's concepts of beauty could possibly be a little bit more different and more widespread she could possibly be thinking of more issues. Even though based on the time that the video came out which was more of a later date so it was a very risky to actually bring in the LGBTA+ within the music video. Beyoncé video "Pretty Hurts" does more on magnifying the issues that may manifest in people today as in the concepts of the beauty like being that skinny , tall , blonde and having clear skin. Like how they might affect girls today or anyone who has a more feminine attribute. they're both wonderful individually themselves and do bring up a lot of subjects even if they may differ or best each other in certain ways , the songs do bring up good points and should help someone who is

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