Dizzee Rascal Dream and Beyonce Formation analysis

Dizzee Rascal Dream and Beyoncé Formation analysis


 


 
Dizzee Rascal- Dream and Beyoncé –formation analysis and comparison
Beyoncé Formation
The music video for Formation gives off many messages to the audience watching it.
The messages that are given off are: female empowerment and oppression within the black community in America.
Female Empowerment comes within many forms in the video such as changes in dressing, ways they should act, embracing their ethnicity and being able to live the same lifestyle as a man would in this generation/ society through the use of visual codes such as expression, camera movement, camera angles, clothing and performance.
She also highlights oppression within the black community such as police brutality against young, innocent black males and females and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the residents who were living in New Orleans. The music video was released in 2016, when the movement for the ‘Black Lives Matter’ took place, whereby young black males and females were arrested by the police for no reason, beaten up and died in police custody. She has incorporated this issue within her video from the scene when there was a little boy dancing in the presence of the police and the graffiti on the wall. However, it is almost as if she is trying to send another message relating to that issue in the scenes when she is lying on top of the police car and when it drowns with her on top of it, which might be that she is not afraid of the police and has managed to stay out of their way and is trying to help those suffering from the power of the police to stay out of their way and make their dreams come true or continue doing what they love to do.
Beyoncé gives some sort of inspiration to all females around the world and her fans within the video in terms of how women’s clothing has changed over the years from the scenes when they were dressed in Georgian/Victorian attire to the scenes where she and the dances were wearing revealing, designer clothing. This is to show women that they should feel no shame in wearing what they want.
She teaches women, especially women of colour that they should embrace their ethnicity in her first verse , “ My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana, You mix that Creole make a Texas bama….”, and how it should not be a barrier for them to become successful,  along with telling them that they can also live the same lifestyle as a man in her third verse, “……I might take him on my chopper, ‘cause I slay, Drop him off at the mall, let him buy some J’s…..”.
Both videos are similar with regards to the issues they highlight within their videos about issues within the black community, whether they take place in the UK or America. However, the audience for both videos are being encouraged to follow their dreams and make them come true from the perspectives of both a man and woman from similar backgrounds, who have grown up during those times when those issues were first brought about in order for the audience to either relate to them or place themselves in their position.
 
 

 

 

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beyonceknowles/formation.html - lyrics to formation

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