Prodigy Analysis

This video is crazy. The plot of the video is about an ambigious person going about their nightly routine of getting up, drinking and going out to a bar. The setting begins with their house and bathroom and goes on to a few different bars and stripper clubs, and ends back at their house in the bedroom. The entire video is in the point of few of this character. We cannot see them but we can only see what they see. We are in their head the entire time. When the character begins to be extremly intoxicated, we as the viewer also feel intoxicated because we cannot see straight. Our view becomes skewed and everything is blurry. The only real character is the one's whos eyes we are looking through. All the other characters are more backround characters, like the men and woman at the bar. The themes in the video are about sex, drugs and alcohol. The entire time we either see the presence of alchol or drugs and if not either of those, we see naked women or 2 people engaging in sexual acts. I think that the video as a whole comments on our stereotypes of these type of people. The entire video we are watching this person get drunk, vomit everyone, become ridiculously intoxicated and have sex with a prositiute. Because of all these actions, the viewer automatically assumes that the character who's eyes we've been livnig through the entire video is presumably a male. But, in the end of the video the directed throws us a curveball and as we see this persons reflection in the mirror, we realize the person who we thought was a man was actually a woman. We automatically related all the types of behaviors that were portrayed with the acts of a guy. The woman who were yelling were screaming "asshole" and we just assumed that the person they were yelling at was a guy. After we figure out it was a girl all along, we have to rethink our assumtions and how we stereotype these behaviors and didn't even think for a moment that the person could be a girl. The song itself would be considered some time of electronic/techno musics. The entire song has barely any lyrics, and the only lyrics it does say are it's title which is "smack my bitch up." Even the title is confusing because it leads us on the track of believing this is a guy who's talking about his girl or about a girl, but we fell into their trap by not considering the gender of the main character at all. The video is very graphic in every way: violence, sex, drugs, alcohol, nudity. It condusive to the message of the song which is commenting on how we put assumptions to everything without thinking twice about it.