Lets Talk: black women and music videos
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Started by Afro-American
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May 2004
while im watching mtv and drugged on southern iced tea...yes, has anyone else noticed this trend
black artist's music video: usually with the main video girl aka the romantic interest/wifey type not EVEN being black but of another color...example, usher's burn, lenny kravitz's videos, boyz to men and their late videos, G-UNIT, and if we are wifey we have to have long straight hair and be light skinned/mixed(no offense to yall), god forbid if they are darker skin or have natural hair or BOTH 
unless its a reggae video :wink: ...but if any video has black chicks usually they are the skanky ones or the ones just to mess around with anyways :?
white artist's videos: well whoopty doo, black-women are beautiful, we are dancing in the clubs with *shock* CLOTHES ON!!, we are able to dance with the likes of justin timberlake without being hoeish and flashing our t&a, we are in rock videos rocking it out with the rest of them, and another shocker, we are all shades and colors and hair types, and thought of as exotic creatures..and as i type this the band "jet" has a new video with a black girl in the club with a huge curly fro rocking out in a classy way...is it just me?? :?
i know this has been said before, but Im it just seems more obvious now
unless its a reggae video :wink: ...but if any video has black chicks usually they are the skanky ones or the ones just to mess around with anyways :?
white artist's videos: well whoopty doo, black-women are beautiful, we are dancing in the clubs with *shock* CLOTHES ON!!, we are able to dance with the likes of justin timberlake without being hoeish and flashing our t&a, we are in rock videos rocking it out with the rest of them, and another shocker, we are all shades and colors and hair types, and thought of as exotic creatures..and as i type this the band "jet" has a new video with a black girl in the club with a huge curly fro rocking out in a classy way...is it just me?? :?
i know this has been said before, but Im it just seems more obvious now
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If you look at who's directing the video's its pretty much the same music directors. Dave Meyers, Hype Williams, and Lil X... if you ever watch the shows where they are behind the scenes when they make the video you'll see that they tend to favor the "exotic" looking girls because its whats "in" (despite the fact that they delegate whats in, most artist really don't choose or care :roll: ).
I had a lot a respect for the frontin video because pharrell had that FINE girl next door lookin dark skin honey who was so FINE (did i say that already). Personally, i feel the "exotic" looking girls are played out (never really liked it), and I'd like to see more videos with us in a positive light.
I'm feeling you on this. I was guessing since Chili was brown skinned Usher didn't want a brown skinned girl playing the lead. But the girl he choses was damn near white. Playing it safe huh?
In the video all the chiks got long hair...ALL OF THEM... has anyone noticed that? They don't even put a variety of hair styes in them. They basically all have long hair. That's crazy. My hairs down there and everything because I take care of it...but once upon a time it wasn't. I know that we all don't have long hair becasue we as women like a variety of styles. So if you're gonna try to capture a beautiful woman should she capture the variety of the black woman (but hey we forgot..they rarely put black chicks in the videos now a day light or dark)
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BellaMocha wrote:I'm feeling you on this. I was guessing since Chili was brown skinned Usher didn't want a brown skinned girl playing the lead. But the girl he choses was damn near white. Playing it safe huh? In the video all the chiks got long hair...ALL OF THEM... has anyone noticed that? They don't even put a variety of hair styes in them. They basically all have long hair. That's crazy. My hairs down there and everything because I take care of it...but once upon a time it wasn't. I know that we all don't have long hair becasue we as women like a variety of styles. So if you're gonna try to capture a beautiful woman should she capture the variety of the black woman (but hey we forgot..they rarely put black chicks in the videos now a day light or dark)
