After watching couple of Diana Ross's music videos, I learned a lot about how society has changed. In her videos it is very evident that she doesn't do what females in the music industries do today. She shows some self-respect in her videos

• How is it similar/different to your main text?

. In comparison to Nicki Minaj, she doesn't present herself in half way naked manner in her videos. She seems covered. Also, in Nicki Minajs videos there is always men surrounding her and dancing along with her. In Dianna Ross's video, she is most likely to have someone who she is singing about in her videos rather than random men who just perform around her for no reason. Although she doesn't do the same things that Nicki Minaj does in her videos, and has more of classical music videos, Dianna Ross was a very famous singer who made a lot of money in the music industry. Till this day, her music is still known and listened to. Her music is definitely different from Nicki Minajs music as she most likely sang about love rather than being dominant or females body parts like Nicki Minaj.  

how society and the issue you are investigating has changed over the years and how these changes are reflected in different media texts?

 In the society that we live in today, female singers or rappers who want to gain fame and wealth feel the need to show off their bodies and their dancing skills. In a newspaper, there was shown the ratio to how many females are in Hollywood films compared to women, the ratio was 5:1. Also, it was shown that the percentage to how many females get naked for the camera compared to males is much higher. 

• how popular culture reflects the 'spirit of the age' or zeitgeist

 The zeitgeist of that era shows that female were not necessarily seen as sex objects like today. Regardless to how they   presented themselves they were still able to gain wealth and fame. The culture that still existed during Dianna Ross's time was much different than the culture that is reflected by society today. Although females in the music industries were less than today, and although females had much less rights than they have today. females were not seen as toys, as something that males have there to just use. One could argue that although females are gaining more rights, they are losing more respect for themselves and that is shown harshly in the music industry. 

• How does this show how the genre/society/issue has changed?

Many sociologists claim that females feel the need to make themselves for more attractive for the camera. The differences in the content  of the music videos show how as time goes by, females begin to respect themselves less and  less everyday. They feel like the only way for them to be famous and recognised is by impressing men, this is known as the male gaze. This refers to how everything on television and music videos is most likely to be there to impress males (MULVEY) "Such films objectify women in relation to ‘the controlling male gaze’ (ibid., 33), presenting ‘woman as image’ (or ‘spectacle’) and man as ‘bearer of the look’ (ibid., 27). Men do the looking; women are there to be looked at. The cinematic codes of popular films ‘are obsessively subordinated to the neurotic needs of the male ego’ (ibid., 33). It was Mulvey who coined the term 'the male gaze'."