Evaluation- How my magazine represnts a particular social group

My magazine mainly represents afro-carribean and mixed raced R&B artists, this is because there are not a lot of white, asian or corcasian R&B singers and rappers. This may be because R&B was traditionally performed by black Americans in the late 1930s however the term R&B did not come up until the late 1940s. My magazine also represents hip hop culture.

My magazine represents females as sexual objects as the majority of the time the women are wearing clothes that expose some part f their body, mainly their bust. This is a method that is very commonly used in R&B magazines to attract men and even women who aspire to have bodies like these women. Looking back at my R&B mood board we can clearly see that all of the women are wearing near to nothing, which connotes that they are a type of sex object which is quite a negative representation in contrast to men who are allowed to be fully clothed or undressed in a way which still allows them to have dignity- this suggests that men are represented in a more positive way than females. However, I would go as far as to argue that females are represented in a positive way as the camera tends to always be slightly tilted up at them to make them look more dominant connoting that they are in power.

Similarily, other media platforms in music such as music videos also represnt young females in a sexualised way. an example of this is Nicki Minaj's R&B music video "Massive Attack" which features women in tight revealing clothes, some of them are even made to appear as chinese barbie dolls. On the contrary, Nicki Minaj's video does not only represent black males and females but also chinese females.

Above: Link to Nicki Minaj's music video