The Race and Gender Differences in Country Music Videos to Rap Music Videos

The Race and Gender Differences in

Country Music Videos to Rap Music Videos

Country Videos:

Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying

Blake Shelton – Austin

Shaniah Twain – That Don’t Impress Me Much

Rap Videos:

50 Cent – I Get Money

Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back

Snoop Dogg – Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thing

The differences in the portrayal of both artist and race in the rap videos vs. the country videos is quite astounding. Apart from the lyrics, the videos show amazing differences between the “whites” and “blacks”, as well as astonishing differences in their portrayals of women. Overall, the country videos portray women as objects of love and affection from the men singing about them. The rap videos on the other hand seem to objectify women and they are portrayed as merely objects of sexual desires.

Another big difference in the rap videos as to the country ones is how the artists themselves are portrayed.