CRITICAL ANALYSIS
2019). This famous song has a strong voice which fascinates every young girl and also
describes the denial of the mothers. However, it denotes the real life and sets a mood for the
observers.
The very beginning of the song “Mama said, you are a pretty girl, what in your head,
it does not matter” states what a mother told her about the struggle of women towards the
perfection as to fit in with the society’s standard of beauty. It also conveys that the people in
the society shall have thinking of beauty by the self-love and rather getting attracted towards
the physical beauty. The song suggests that believe in the fact of loving one self and not on
struggling much for perfection. As being a contestant of a beauty pageant, Beyoncé struggled
to perfectly fit in with the other competing girls in the scenario where getting success is very
difficult.
The motive of the video was not to analyse a story but to create a sympathetic mood
for the song for the listeners. The video itself is conveying a sad mood for some people and
also related to the image of Beyoncé directly forcing her to lose weight as she was too big.
For some people, it created an angry state of mind or is disagreeing to the things so portrayed
in the song, where some people thought that this video is trying to promote ideologies of girls
for getting fitted in accordance to the societal standards of beauty.
The lyrics of the song are connected with the themes of feminism and self-
empowerment which are facing a universal challenge with respect to the beauty of the female
beauty. It is well stated that the reason behind filming this video was an interconnection
between the physical beauties and to spread happiness in life (Trier-Bieniek, 2016). It also
represents the critical things that every woman comes across with the pressure created by the
society on her. It signifies the pain and struggles experienced by every woman in the world to
match up with the irrelevant standard of beauty.
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