#1-What is the song basically saying about how to live a good life?
What Lil Mama's Lip Gloss is Saying about how to how live a good life is directed mostly to teenage girls in school. Shes mentions many times in her song that for you to become popular and recive attention from boys and girls, your Lip Gloss has to be "poppin", without it your not cool. she also mentions that even if you do have Lip Gloss and its not expensive like hers and cheap then it aint "poppin" either. In her opinion Living the good Life if being popular, having expensive things, and having people hate you because your supposedly better then them.
#2-What lyrics particularly speak to that perspective?
She says that when she got her Lip Gloss on all the boys stop to notice her. " My lip gloss be poppin' Im standin' at my locker And all the boys keep stoppin" Also how the girls hate on her because her lip gloss it better " the boys really like it, the girls dont speak" she makes a point that the other girls lip gloss is cheap so its definitly not better then hers. "they rollin' they eyes they lip gloss cheap, it aint my fault but i can upgrade you, show you how to use nice things with nice flavors" she throwing it in the girls faces that they cant afford the expensive lip gloss like her and that she has the money just to give away to "uprade them"
#3-How do the video images support, re-orient, or challenge the dominant theme of the lyrics?
The Video Contradict's what her lyrics are saying. in her video it dont show any boys stoppin to look at her or any girls rollin there eyes at her. its just her showing off the lipgloss. throughout the video she blowing the lipgloss around to people and its magically maing them more popular. as an example the part where this nerd is watching everyone dance and she blows the sent of her lipgloss toward him, he throws his glasses off and starts danncing and hes all of a sudden cool. at the end of the song she gets back in her moms car and tells her how much she liked the lip gloss and her mother tells her "it wasent the lipgloss, it was you all along" that contradicts her lyrics because without the lip gloss she wouldnt be popular so it wasent her all along. the music video sends the messsage that you dont need the lipgloss be be popular but her lyrics say something different.
#4-What else do you notice that's interesting?
I find it intresting that at first before she goes into school shes like everyone else, shes not popular and without her mother giving her the lip gloss the boys wouldnt be staring and the girls wouldnt be hating. she seams very innocent in the car with her mom but in school she isnt so innocent.
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In the beginning you said that Lil' Mama wants to be popular so people will "hate" her out of jealousy, this is interesting because she's promoting popularity with the prospect of jealousy, implying that no one can admire someone anymore, we live in such a self centered society that we can't have admiration for someone, we have to be jealous
I agree with you and the whole shes saying that to have a good life you need to be popluar and have boys coming after. I didnt really think much on the jealousy part, because no one in the video was really luking jealous, but i can see where u get the idea, yah and i agree with what marco wrote about the whole no one can admire someone thing, since thats how jealousy is, u start disliking the person b/c u want to be them.
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