The music video “Carry Out” by Timbaland and Justin Timberlake applies the gender stereotypes and the racial stereotype. The music video presents the gender stereotypes visually with the image and aurally with the lyrics. Also the video stars Timbaland who is a black man and Justin Timberlake who is a white man, and they wear different colors of outfit. Wearing different colors constructs racial stereotypes.
In the first part of the video, the women are dancing in front of a neon sign that says “Drive in”. Dancing in the dark place with only the neon sign light accentuates the women’s body postures because I cannot see the faces or clothes but the movement of women. The neon sign only highlights the women’s bodyline and gesture which lets the women to look more gorgeous than normal lights. The women dance to attract the guys and the guys are seduced by their dancing. Also they wear the tops which shows their According to the lyrics; “Baby, you are looking fire hot”, “I take you home baby let you keep me company”, Timbaland says that he is attracted to her. Since she is hot and attractive to him, he wants to take her home and stay with him. Also, by saying “I’ll have you open all night like an IHop”, Timbaland expresses that he is sexually attracted to that woman. Since IHop is the restaurant that opens 24hours, he means that he wants to have sex with her all night. Also the one of the women licks her finger and As written by Devor, femininity tends to attract man and masculinity tends to achieve dominance in hierarchy. The women are feminine who attracts Timbaland with her dress, movement, and gesture to attract the men and the men are masculine who is attracted by femininity.
Secondly, the man expresses masculinity in 49 seconds in the music video. The lyrics says that “have it your way foreplay, before I feed you appetite.” This explains that the man tends to have a dominant power in their relationships, so he is giving her chance to do whatever she wants before he does what he wants. It shows one of the attributes of masculinity described by Devor. Devore writes that masculinity tends to show aggression to achieve power and also desires dominance. This line of the lyrics applies masculinity of the man in the video. Also the video represents femininity by the woman’s movement, facial expressions and dress. She wears a jumpsuit which only covers one third of her body so that the people can see her rest of uncovered body. She sits on the floor and dances to stand out her body. Her face also contributes to femininity because she opens her mouth slightly and opens her eyes only half way of her eye size which helps her to look sexier. Therefore, masculinity and femininity are reflected in both of the video and the lyrics.
Finally, the music video constructs a racial stereotype by the clothes of the two singing men. Timbaland wears a black leather jacket and a black cap because he is a black man. Justin Timberlake wears a white jacket and a white cap because he is a white man. In the middle of the video, they both change to suit jackets but do not change the colors of the outfits. Timbaland wears a black color jacket again and Justin Timberlake wears a white color jacket again. The colors of their outfits present their races because they wear clothes that have colors of their races. By wearing different colors of clothes, Timbaland shows blackness and Justin Timberlake shows whiteness.
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