Ya Mama by Fatboy Slim
Ya Mama
The very first scene you see in the video is a Red Neck Hill Billy, painting an ornament of a bird, holding a post card of a beach and watching Tom&Jerry. this automatically gives the audience a very unserious, almost jokey sense, not unlike how Fatboy Slim is. The rednecks are going against the stereotypes people give them, you wouldn't expect them to be painting a bird ornament, they would be more likely to be drinking, smoking and fixing old cars. This is like Fatboy Slim because unlike most artists he is very relaxed and abnormal, sees all his videos as fun rather then making serious videos like many other artists. This promotes Fatboy Slim because it shows his uniqueness which is desirable because people get bored of seeing the same sort of things all the time so to have a different type of music, video and artist in general it makes it much more interesting.
The video is a cyclical story narrative, it is about Hill Billy's who have a tape delivered and when it is heard people break out into uncontrollable dancing. They thought they could make money from this and decided to go to the market to get people to pay and listen to the tape advertising it with a sign that says "push the tempo" very scruffily written on a piece of cardboard. A black gangsta then is seen to come and take the tape from them and put it in a juke box. This causes havoc across the whole market because everyone breaks out in dancing, wrecking stalls and even a car is seen driving into them. Throughout the video there is a very unserious atmosphere and it could almost be seen as a joke, for example the spelling of police station is 'Polis Stazion' mocking the correct spelling.
About Fatboy Slim
Norman Quentin Cook or alternatively known as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, record producer and DJ. He massively helped popularise the big beat genre in the 90s. He was brought up in Redhill, Surrey and he then went on to live in Brighton where he studied English, Politics and Sociology. This is also when he started to DJ. Originally, he started his career with " Caravan Of Love" in 1985. However, he left the group 3 years later and topped the charts as part of a number of dance acts. Previously he has won the MTV Music Awards and two Brit Awards. Not only this but he also placed in the Guinness Book Of Records for achieving the most UK Top 40 hits under different names.
Ya Mama
The very first scene you see in the video is a Red Neck Hill Billy, painting an ornament of a bird, holding a post card of a beach and watching Tom&Jerry. this automatically gives the audience a very unserious, almost jokey sense, not unlike how Fatboy Slim is. The rednecks are going against the stereotypes people give them, you wouldn't expect them to be painting a bird ornament, they would be more likely to be drinking, smoking and fixing old cars. This is like Fatboy Slim because unlike most artists he is very relaxed and abnormal, sees all his videos as fun rather then making serious videos like many other artists. This promotes Fatboy Slim because it shows his uniqueness which is desirable because people get bored of seeing the same sort of things all the time so to have a different type of music, video and artist in general it makes it much more interesting.
The video is a cyclical story narrative, it is about Hill Billy's who have a tape delivered and when it is heard people break out into uncontrollable dancing. They thought they could make money from this and decided to go to the market to get people to pay and listen to the tape advertising it with a sign that says "push the tempo" very scruffily written on a piece of cardboard. A black gangsta then is seen to come and take the tape from them and put it in a juke box. This causes havoc across the whole market because everyone breaks out in dancing, wrecking stalls and even a car is seen driving into them. Throughout the video there is a very unserious atmosphere and it could almost be seen as a joke, for example the spelling of police station is 'Polis Stazion' mocking the correct spelling.
Is this mythical world predominantly male or female? How is the dominant gender portrayed in the video? Give examples.
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