Voyeurism- Representation

Voyeurism is the act of watching someone who is performing sexual behaviour, such as dancing, undressing or intercourse, in order to gain pleasure. Goodwin states that female performers are sexually objectified by camera work and edited by fragmented body shops emphasising a sexualised treatment of the performer.
Voyeurism is often used to help sell a product and create audience interest, there are many apparent uses of voyeurism in many videos, some of which I will be discussing below.

This is a song called 'Anaconda', sang by Nicki Minaj, a famous artist known for her kinky videos which is a clear example of Voyeurism. This music video clearly demonstrates Voyeurism as there are explicit parts of the video showing the female lead singer exposing parts of her body.
Not only Nicki herself, the male back dancers also show parts of their body including their male parts covered in underwear with no other garment on. This video is a perfect example of voyeurism for both males and females performing sexual behaviours and showing their body parts in order to gain public attention and pleasure.
Moreover, the lyrics and the visual image match perfectly, as the lyrics talk about her explicit body parts, and this is what they are portraying to the audience through the music video itself.

This music video is another perfect example of Voyeurism. This is a song called '7/11' by Beyoncé, another artist who is well known for her kinky videos and a clear example of voyeurism. The video simply shows the artists dancing in front of the camera, wearing a hooded jumper and no trousers on, only in her underwear. This automatically gets the audience attracted to the video as she is a female lead singer, who is semi- dressed, dancing, and performing in a sexual behaviour, portraying clear visuals of voyeurism.

As we are aware, Beyoncé is well known to portray her body parts in all of her music videos. Here is another song sang by Beyoncé herself called 'Partition'. Again this video is a perfect example of Voyeurism, where Beyoncé shows her breasts off to the audience. The camera purposely zooms into her beasts and exposing legs to attract the audience, particularly the male audience. This video again shows her perform in a sexual behaviour, dancing and getting undressed to gain pleasure and the attraction from the audience.