Iggy Azalea Video Analysis Essay

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Musical Analysis Three In Iggy Azalea’s music video one can see how the video constitutes a harmful form of cultural appropriation, this can be seen by the way Iggy over sexualizes a modest culture with the lyrics, clothing, and dancing. What she is doing is degrading and transforming the authenticity of the Indian culture. One point that can be connected from lecture to the video is that this video only benefits Iggy while it hurts an entire country and the communities in it [3]. The people of India and their culture can be seen as one of the most modest in the world however while watching the music video Bounce Iggy Azalea destroys the whole image of what India actually is. India’s dance and music is very different from many other countries, they have their own style and taste and even though Iggy’s video is Indian themed she does not seem to respect them. There were a few clips in particular that I believe had no reason to be in the video and those were the ones who had children in them. The kids are seen spraying colors on each other as if they are …show more content…

The lyrics and the video do not go together one bit. One verse in the video is “Let your hair down, and shake that shit, shake that shit, shake that shit sweat it out, go nuts in this bitch, dip it, spin it and watching my hips I see you watchin' my hips, crazy, move your body like Swayze, round and round, shake it, break it, make it bounce! It's a fucking celebration” [1] and what is shown is Iggy and other women dancing then there is also cut scenes with children. That is inappropriate, no kids should be shown while Iggy is saying that, and then there is the women dancing. The women are seen in their typical clothing and they seem to be dancing somewhat in the classical Indian dance, which is something that should not be done to that type of

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