Blog 2
Prompt 1 For a cultural artifact, I choose to use Taylor Swift’s music video I Knew You Were Trouble link: https://youtu.be/vNoKguSdy4Y . I choose to use this music video because it won Best Female Video at MTV video music awards (VMA’s) 2013. It accumulated worldwide sales of more than 6.6 million units and is 3x multi- platinum according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song itself is written Taylor Swift, Shellback, and Max Martin and the music video itself is produced by Taylor Swift. I am a Taylor Swift fan; therefore, I have listened, seen, and analyzed all her music videos. In all her music videos, Swift is the main character/ singer/ performer. Although people like to believe that her all her music is written about men that’s not quite true. In her music videos, individuals who play the role of men are just supporting characters thus playing small roles and not often seen in scenes. Most of the men in her music videos don’t portray extreme masculine ...