There are many different music videos that have sexism in them a few good examples such as blurred lines and wrecking ball.
Laura Mulvey theories of sexism would apply here in the song Blurred lines by Robin Thicke as in the lyrics of the song women are sexualised as they are degraded to sexual objects for the male gaze. In the music video the women are running around in their underwear and do nothing for the song there is not even a backup female singer which shows they are just their for the male gaze.
But this is not the case for all music videos as shown in Miley cyrus song Wrecking ball where she is the main singer but is also degraded a sexual object. In the music video Miley walks around barely wearing anything and at one point in the music video is on a wrecking ball naked, this is done to attract the male attention. This degrades Miley as a singer as she is more a sexual object in this video.
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