Saturday by Rebecca black represents a strong stereotype about teenagers and the stereotypes that are been reported on the media quite frequently and the ones that are often conveyed to us as an audience. Not only does the music video itself show this, but so do the lyrics. Saturday is a sequel from Rebecca Black's 'Friday", a song which also strongly demonstrates Teenagers and the stereotypes surrounding them.
The Saturday music video strongly conveys the stereotype about "If you don't have friends, you're a loser".
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The photo shows Rebecca and her friends in a car. This demonstrates the fact that she has many friends, most likely a result from the stereotype mentioned above the photo. The stereotype is almost like a policy, a rule that ALL teenagers have to follow. However, some teenagers are shy and they don't have the confidence to go out and make friends. It is this lack of confidence that causes teenagers that don't have friends a loser. Just because you aren't that confidence in terms of making friends, doesn't mean you're a loser. It's just means that you're shy which is perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately, society can't wrap it's head around this. As a result, you become labelled as loser, damaging morale and decreasing self-esteem in the process. Society must first understand that some people are shy and aren't too confident when it come to making friends. Once this is done, then ABOLISH THE STEREOTYPE!
Not only does Rebecca Black's Saturday represent the stereotype around making friends, but it also conveys the stereotype that involves parties. "All teenagers do is party". This stereotype is not only represented in the music video...
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...but it is also represented via the lyrics in the chorus: "This Saturday, we gon party all night. One we will remember for the rest of our lives. This Saturday we gonna do it bigger that we ever have before. I don't want this Saturday to end." These lyrics along with photo clearly the outline the party stereotype. There is a reason as to why Rebecca decided to include in the video: It's to show that Society has adopted this stereotype before even considering that some teenagers aren't even aloud to go out partying as they do not have the luxury to do so because strict parent or morals.
Society constantly adopted a range of variety of stereotypes without even considering that some teenager don't have the luxury to go partying or are too shy to go make friends. Therefore, teenagers are labelled by society because of stereotypes that don't fit us some of us. If society were to stop and think about these stereotypes before labeling us, then we would be more accurately labeled and the stereotypes would ACTUALLY be correct." There's no point in the media labeling teenagers doing things they don't or something they aren't": This is what Rebecca Black is trying to convey in her song/music video Saturday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVCzdpagXOQ
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