VID - ***Flawless - Disney Princesses

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: ***Flawless
music: Beyoncé featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We should all be feminists
source: Disney Princesses movies (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Brave, and Frozen)
duration: 4:11
Disney Princesses Featured: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Anna, Elsa...
notes: I could write notes to fill a novel, but I can't, so ask anything you'd like.
summary: We woke up like this.

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Your challengers are a young group from Houston
Welcome Beyoncé, Lativia, Nina, Nicky, Kelly, and Ashley
The Hip-Hop Rappin'
'Girls TYME'

I'm out that H-town coming coming down
I'm coming down, drippin' candy on the ground
H, H-Town, Town, I'm coming down
Coming, coming down, dripping candy on the ground

I know when you were little girls
You dreamt of being in my world
Don't forget it, don't forget it
Respect that, bow down bitches (Crown!)
I took some time to live my life
But don't think I'm just his little wife
Don't get it twisted, get it twisted
This my shit, bow down bitches
Bow down bitches, bow bow down bitches (Crown)
Bow down bitches, bow bow down bitches (Crown)
H-Town vicious
H, H-Town vicious
I'm so crown crown, bow down bitches

I'm out that H, town, coming coming down
I'm coming down, drippin' candy on the ground

H, H-town town
I'm coming down
Coming, coming down
Drippin' candy on the ground

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors – not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. Feminist: the person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

You wake up, flawless
Post up, flawless
Ridin' round in it, flawless
Flossin' on that, flawless
This diamond, flawless
My diamond, flawless
This rock, flawless
My rock, flawless
I woke up like this
I woke up like this
We flawless, ladies tell 'em
I woke up like this
I woke up like this
We flawless, ladies tell 'em
Say I look so good tonight
Goddamn, goddamn
Say I look so good tonight
Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn

Momma taught me good home training
My daddy taught me how to love my haters
My sister told me I should speak my mind
My man made me feel so goddamn fine, I'm flawless!

You wake up, flawless
Post up, flawless
Riding round in it, flawless
Flossing on that, flawless
This diamond, flawless
My diamond, flawless
This rock, flawless
My rock, flawless
I woke up like this
I woke up like this
We flawless, ladies tell 'em
I woke up like this
I woke up like this
We flawless, ladies tell 'em
Say I look so good tonight
Goddamn, goddamn
Say I look so good tonight
Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn

The Judges give champion Skeleton Crew 4 Stars
A perfect score
And the challenger Girls TYME receives, 3 stars
Skeleton Crew, champions once again
Congratulations, we'll see you next week

Comments

[chaila.livejournal.com]

Ahhh this is amazing! Excuse the obvious joke, but goddamn this really is fucking flawlessly edited. As always with your vids, it's so densely edited and put together, that I'm sure I'm missing a ton. But to me, while there are critical elements (particularly in the way Disney retells the stories with the same elements and the limitations of those narrative roles, and the shaming of sex, which gah the way you edited all those parallels is amazing), the vid is more about how girls see more in these stories than perhaps is always intended. Or that there's more to those roles than the label "princess" allows for. They aren't happily ever after romances, but stories of girls going after what they want, busting down doors and picking up arms, saving each other and their lovers and themselves. I love the lines and parallels you draw, visually and thematically, as the diversity in the stories increases, racial diversity and also diversity in the types of stories these women are in, diversity in the kinds of things they want. You can put these characters in a romance, but girl fans know better, or will bust them out. <3

Which, I suppose, is also a little cynical; Disney will widen the tent, just a little, to keep inculcating young girls with princess culture. But princesses have kind of bows that have arrows now, so I think we're winning.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

I just left a comment and then I saw your comment and I would just like to say that I love it! You're a smarty.