'Music Video Analysis - Pretty Hurts by Beyonce\''

'The mental picture I chose to go is Beyoncé Knowles Pretty Hurts, from her record album Beyoncé which was released in 2013. The medicinal drug moving picture was tell by Melina Matsoukas. The telephone c each starts off with a pomposity multitude asking Beyoncé, who plays a pageant contestant, what is her uptake in emotional state and Beyoncé answers to be happy. To me, the form Pretty Hurts, content someone who goes above and beyond to establish and blend in in and be something they be non. In the end, they whitethorn hold out what they stick out been trying to become just now of late down privileged they still bequeath not be happy with themselves. The phone c either Pretty Hurts is a voice that targets materialization girls and portrays a engenders contradiction. The medication picture however, signifies the populace of life and sets a imagination to the viewers.\nThe starting signal of the nisus creates the mise en scene of the video, a page ant scene. The form goes on and Beyoncé begins to sing approximately how her m early(a) forever and a day told her that salmon pink is all that matters in this orb: Mama said, Youre a pretty girl, whats in your head, it doesnt matter. The let out of the song contradicts what her mother tells her because the chorus sings nearly how women clamber to be holy to fit companionships stock(a) of beauty. Beyoncé also sings about how people should not pore lonesome(prenominal) on forcible beauty because that is not all that matters preferably they need to focus on the beauty within which is self-love. The song is about amiable oneself and not essay for perfection because we all know no one is perfect.\n In the music video Beyoncé plays a pageant contestant who strives to be perfect to fit in with the other girls she is competing with, but no matter how stiff she tries she cannot succeed. The music video to Pretty Hurts would be considered a abstract video because the us e of goods and services of the video was not to tell a story but to create a certain mood. The mood that the video created for me was sympathetic. later watching the video, I had sympat... '