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Wham were a pop duet that included two men called George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. At the time when they released Club Tropicana as their fourth single, they were a developing pop group, and weren’t extremely well known. ...
For many centuries pop songs have had a video to go with them that can tell a story or simply just show the singer(s) singing. ...
In the Club Tropicana video, men and women are presented in different ways, which I will look at along with the presentation of lifestyle.
In the video there is an obvious difference in the way that men and women are presented and looked upon by other people. The video is telling a story, where there are lots of sexual links and references made between the boys and girls throughout it. The first people you see are two women who are called Shirley and Dee C, which are the most important women who you get to see. ...
There are many things in the video that you could call phallic symbols, and relate to there being sexual tension between these girls and George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. When the women are still in the jeep there is a shot of one of them running her hand over the gear stick. ... They are obviously very confident women and are used to getting a lot of attention from people.
The next shot where there are women viewable in it has women sat on a step in the swimming pool, moving to the beat of the music. ... They are wearing swimming costumes, and it’s quite a quick shot, which implies that they aren’t seen as very important people, and it’s not worth spending a long time on them. ... This shot has been placed there to show the different levels of importance between men and women in the video.
In another shot where George Michael is sat by the swimming pool, you can see women walking past in the background, but you can only see the bottom half of their legs. This makes out that men are more important than women in this video, as they’re not important enough for the viewers to see their faces.
When it comes to the chorus of the song, it flicks back and replays the part where the women were sat on the step by the pool, which acts as a continuation from the verse, and implies that women are happy to sit there, with no importance. They are shown doing this so that you are continually shown that the women’s status is lower than the men’s in the video.
This encourages us to perceive the women as unimportant, and available for the men to have when it pleases them.
We don’t see many more shots of women, until towards the end of the song. ... This gives the impression they’re more important than the women as the area of their body associated with sex is kept hidden from the camera, whereas the women’s weren’t. The women are wearing the same coloured swimming costumes, which suggests that they’re not individuals and just copy each other as we saw at the start of the video.
The constant flick of camera shots between the men and women makes you think they’re moving closer together and because of the body parts you are shown, that there is also continuous sexual tension between them.
Approximate Word count = 2844
Approximate Pages = 11.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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