Song Choice

We have chosen the song Sexy Silk from the soundtrack to feature film Easy A. Recorded by Jessie J under her real name Jessica Cornish, the song was specifically written for the film and this served as good reasoning for the choice. This is because there is no official video to compare it to. It also means that creativity can be used freely without gathering any similarities in look or performance to the original. 

The lyrics to the song are very similar to those of other songs of its genre, as they are overtly sexual in nature. They are primarily of a woman professing her desire, and eventual love, for the male in question. Specifically, the lyrics state that she goes from merely thinking she might "like" him at the end of the first chorus to thinking she thinks she may "love" him by the end of the song. This plays into regular stereotypes that women cannot control their emotions and therefore are determined to belong to a man.  

Despite this the musical composition of the song is incredibly different in that some of the instruments involved are not typically associated with pop music, such as trumpets and saxophones. This helped with the idea for the performance of the production, as it is reminiscent of the song Lady Marmalade by Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Mya and Lil' Kim. The song was also used on a soundtrack, although it has an existing video. It was the existing video, along with the composition and other ideas that gave me the outline for the video idea, which shall be explained in detail later in this blog.

 The theme of women lusting after a man in pop and R&B music is very common as, because of society being after the post-feminist movement, more and more female performers are using the theme and having a strong character in themselves in spite of the lyrical content. This can clearly be seen in the video for Toxic by Britney Spears. 

She wears 4 different outfits, each highly sexualised and at different stages of power, her vixen character with the black hair has more power than the stewerdess even though they are both using their bodies to get what they want. Similarly our performer will use her body to get what she wants in motion with the lyrics. 

The lyrics to our song are overtly sexual, especially at the beginning of the song where they read "I'll be your pussycat licking your milk right now", which has very obvious connotations of oral sex. Connoting sex is very common within music videos, both visually and lyrically, as is even simulating it.