The music video for Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball was released on September 9th 2013.
The song debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
at number fifty, and later became Cyrus' first number-one single in the United
States after the release of its controversial music video. It retained the peak
position during the following week.
Nine weeks later, the track returned to number one,
and consequently had the largest gap between number-one sittings in Billboard
Hot 100 history.
As of January 2014, "Wrecking Ball" has sold three
million copies in the United States.
Internationally, the song charted
strongly; it topped the charts in Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom, and
charted in the top ten throughout much of Europe and Oceania.
Intertextuality:
The video has been inspired by Sinead O'Connor's music video for her song Nothing Compares 2 U.
There is some intertextuality to O'Connor's video in terms of the extreme close-up at the beginning, where they both sing.
Post-feminism:
Another point i wanted to comment on is her hair, since she is breaking the typical gender stereotype of females needing to have long hair and males having short hair. This again is a stereotype that has become a normative in society. This might also be the reason why it has been so difficult for Cyrus to break free from this stereotype and may be the reason for why she has gotten so much critiscism over the past few years. Through her hair she is being counter hegemonic, as she decides to ignore the restrictions of society hence breaking the gender stereotypes.
Costume:
Her costume consisting of the white panties, white tank top and the black combat boots, exposes her body and in particular her strong arms. The arms are usually also seen as a gender stereotype of males having muscels and women having thinner arms. However, her arms are shown
as muscular, which would then be the stereotype of her being a lesbian, because she has short hair as well. Again, this is a very stereotypical normative.
However, the top is a form of crop top, which is also a feminine aspect of clothes and connotes that she is in some way mixing up the stereotypes and fighting against them.
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