Blog Post: Music Video

In the video "More Beautiful You" it shows that the way we perceive famous people or models to look like isn't real. "Wounder why our perception of beauty is distorted". I believe their are two very distinctive contexts in this video. One being auditory and the other being aesthetics.

If you watch the video and don't listen to any of the words, it starts out with two normal looking females going into a photo shoot. One is a mother and the other is a daughter. Their make-up artist come over and put tons of makeup on them, as well as putting jewels and designs on there faces. Then they proceed to fix their hair and clothes to how they want it. Obviously their faces, hair and clothes don't look the same as when they came in. As they take the pictures of the two females, they are still adjusting things on them and the light settings to make them look more flawless. When the photo shoot is done they go back through and crop their pictures to make them look completely flawless and perfect looking. As they walk out of the photo shoot they are greeted by there father and husband who thinks they look beautiful just the way they are. And show us that famous people still go back to looking just like us before they got a dolled up.

Now if you just listen to the words and not watched the video, you will get the same idea but in more detail. It starts of with a 14yr old looking at a magazine and thinking that is what she needs to look like. I know growing up and still to this day I'll grab and magazine and compare myself to that model. I think many peoples minds are distorted when it comes to beauty because all we see is fake pictures of beauty. Then it goes into that girl growing up an turning 21. She starts to starve herself so that she can be excepted into this world. Everywhere you look, there are sign advertising for no carbs in this or this has low calories in it. Driving down the road you'll see billboard signs and cars with advertisement saying... Join our gym/workout program to get that model body. Also on that billboard they'll have a very buff guy or a thin sexy model on there. Its hard not to pay attention to those advertisements since they are everywhere you go.

But the point of this video is to say that who you are is beautiful enough. We don't have to try to be skinny, buff, tanned, or flawless because we were made just the way we were meant to be. We don't have to try to be someone else to be beautiful because "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."