Protected: Empowering Visual Narratives: Feminism in Music Videos

The al­bum Vir­gin by Lorde feels like pop record­ed with the door left open, glitch­es in­tact and edges un­pol­ished. When trans­plant­ed to con­cert, Ul­tra­sound stages that raw­ness like a med­ical pro­ce­dure, us­ing fast cuts and big-screen close-ups to man­u­fac­ture in­ti­ma­cy through mag­ni­fi­ca­tion.

Auto-Tune is per­son­i­fied on Brat turn­ing vo­cal pro­cess­ing into sto­ry­telling rather than pol­ish. The mock­u­men­tary The Mo­ment ex­tends this on­screen, mak­ing pop per­sona the sto­ry it­self.

In the al­bum Hit Me Hard and Soft by Bil­lie Eil­ish, gen­tle­ness is staged at mi­cro­phone dis­tance, then snapped back by hard cuts and sud­den low end. The pro­duc­tion makes emo­tion­al du­al­i­ty au­di­ble, soft on the sur­face, heavy un­der­neath.