1. Stereotypes in pop videos.
By Lucie Stevens

2. What is a stereotype?
A stereotype is a typical view on a group of people.
There are many different stereotypes used and represented in
pop videos. This includes stereotypes for black men and black
women.

3. Black men.
Black men are usually represented in a particular way in pop videos. This includes them;
• being in gangs
• being a player, a heterosexual, very promiscuous with lots of women
• being a thug/criminal
• wearing expensive clothing or jewellery
• flaunting wealth
• being aggressive
• using women as objects
• showing friends come first
• wearing glasses and baggy clothes
• wearing big gold chains ‘BLING’

4. This is a video from Giggs
Showing him wearing a hat
And hanging around with
His friends.
This is an image from a lil wayne video
Showing him and his friend together
This is an image from another
Lil wayne video showing
Him as one man surrounded by
Girls.
This is an image from Drake’s video
Which shows him flaunting his money
With the cars and wearing bling and big
Gold chains and baggy clothes and a hat

5. Black women.
Black women also have particular representations of them in music
videos. This includes:
• Big bums and shaking them something called ‘twerking’
• Using them as props or objectifying them
• Wearing revealing clothing
• Big hair
• Sexual

6. In this video Rihanna dances quite
Provocatively and is wearing little clothing
This is an image of Nicki Minaj
In one of her videos where she
Shakes her bum
This is an image of Beyonce from one
Of her music videos where she is dancing
Provocatively wearing little clothing also.
This is quite sexual.