bum-boom


OMG! Have seen that music video yesterday, dunno who it was. Some chick with Sean Paul I think. She looked similar to one of the suga babes, and I think she also sang. I was slightly distracted from her singing because she was shaking her butt all the time with an astonishing jerkiness. It was hypnotizing to watch these abrupt movements. She wasn't even stopping when she walked backwards towards her video partner. If people say that men are ruled by their dick, this babe was clearly ruled by her ass - it lead her anywhere! Most annoying was the way she rubbed it up and down the wall... it looked as if the butt was crawling up the wall with a will of it's own, dragging the rest of the lady along. Of course there also was the obligatory dance element, to-rotate-her-ass-along-and-in-front-and-of-his-groin, en mass. That's obviously what the male audience wants to see, and what stimulates, eh, inspires them to buy the record.

Since a few years there's a noticeable bum-boom on MTV, VIVA and the other music channels. I recall a video, most likely some gangsta rap or hip hop, where they first made extensive use of a combination involving fisheye lens, fast motion filming and big female backsides squeezed in tight hotpants. The dancers wiggled their enormeous bottoms almost uninterrupted in front of the camera, the effect being dramatically amplified by the camera's perspective.
I'm not too fond of it, but that may be because I don't like the very light music they try to sell with it. It all sounds the same. So why are they shaking their ass, and why are black dancers better in doing it? Maybe because they can, and maybe because the black dancer's I've seen so far just have fuller, nicer bums. Although I don't like the music, I admire their ability to this shakin' - it looks good, of course!, but in the music video industry we're close to the overkill, ain't we?

Posted: Mo - Januar 12, 2004 at 02:12 Uhr      

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