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Blog #2 Bad Bunny’s ‘Me Porto Bonito’ Music Video: The Male Gaze

For this blog post I’m going to analyse Bad Bunny’s ft. Chencho Corleone ‘Me Porto Bonito’ music video under the scope of The Male Gaze. It is known; at least in Latin America where I come from; that the Reggaeton genre is often a very pejorative music genre for women and that it is very commonly used to talk about how men have power over women; the lyrics of the songs almost always talk about women as an object that exists for the male satisfaction, they are commonly kind of aggressive lyrics and talk about sex; they even dare to mention rape in an indirect way sometines. Overall we could say that this music genre tends to be permeated with “machismo”. In the Latin American context, we can understand machismo as “toxic masculinity” where men often treat and think of women as something lesser than them: as an object that exists just for their service.

‘In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of characteristics associated with the feminine. It has for centuries been a strong current in Latin American politics and society.’ (Britannica, 2023)

The harsh and pejorative lyrics used in reggaeton lyrics are so normalised in culture and are often camouflaged with the sticky and clingy melodies that almost no one questions why and how are we as a society allowing those artists and the genre in general to depict women that way. This is so harmful for both men and women, because at the end of the day this genre and all that derives from it is perpetuating stereotypes and continues to normalise them. On one side for women, they perpetuate in the consumer/spectator/listener the idea of them being objects for male consumption; as stated by Bauman (1991) women are looked as ‘the other’ of men; and on the other side, for men the genre just keeps “confirming” 1) that all men are entitled to “own” women and 2) that all men are ‘machistas’ that want to have power over women, and maybe even unconsciously they perpetuate in women the idea that they are less than men. It’s kind of an endless loop.

‘The male gaze limits the possibilities for the female spectator imagining herself as a woman with agency, on the one hand, and escaping identifying herself as a passive object, on the other. [...] women’s bodies are objects that give pleasure through voyeuristic and fetishistic forms of scopophilia, pleasure in looking.’ (Mulvey, 1975 cited by Oliver, 2017.)

I’m not going to get that deep into the roots of this genre and why it is permeated with this toxic masculinity ideologies, but I think we can see by now that even the music genre by itself is mostly produced under the Male Gaze ideologies. Now, very often, if not always, these songs come accompanied by a music video, and it’s very common that they display tons of women wearing tiny little clothes, like an accessory that just accompanies the male singer; these videos are often produced as well under the Male Gaze lens. I’m going to analyse Bad Bunny’s ft. Chencho Corleone ‘Me Porto Bonito’ music video to exemplify this. To give a general context about the song’s lyrics, the song basically talks about how the male protagonist of the song is trying his best to stay “controlled” and don’t flirt with other women just to gain her and then how once he gets her he’s gonna brag to everyone about how hot and “delicious” she is.

'Pa' que to' el mundo vea lo rica que tú está', que tú está' Contigo tengo que apretar Y еn la calle ando suelto, pero por ti mе quito Si tú me lo pide', yo me porto bonito Y subo un selfie pa' que vean lo rica que tú está', que tú está' Las otras tienen que apretar' (Bad Bunny, 2022)

Ever since the video starts, we can see that the main focus is on two main women characters, both of these characters are wearing tiny bikinis and laying on the grass under the sun. The video continues and we keep seeing these women in tiny clothes in different contexts during the whole video narrative; even when they are in their room, they appear wearing miniskirts and just a bralette top. We can see the pattern here, right? And it doesn’t stop there. The focus throughout the whole video is on the ladies, not even that much on the two fully dressed male singers. We can clearly see from here the huge contrast between how men are depicted in the video compared to how women are depicted; why are men shown fully dressed while women are always shown wearing almost no clothes or just sexy clothes? Why are absolutely all the women appearing on the video wearing such tiny bikinis? That’s right, because they are there just for the male consumption and they serve as accessories for the male singers throughout the video. Even the camera framing and composition of the video is thought of and implemented under the male gaze lens.I’ll analyse some frames of the video to further elaborate on this.

I can conclude that this video is in fact permeated with the male gaze ideology and ultimately it was created with the purpose to appeal and sell to men. It is a bit discouraging to see that even nowadays this continues to be something so normalised and that it is being consumed on such a big scale worldwide; as I said before, I think this type of content just keeps perpetuating harmful stereotypes, especially for women, and people need to start questioning more why is this type of content so normalised as well as start filtering the type of media they consume and how it is affecting their perception on both men and women, even of themselves.

References

Bad Bunny, (2022) Me Porto Bonito, 20 June. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saGYMhApaH8 [Accessed: 20 November 2023]

Bauman, Z. (1991) Modernity and Ambivalence. John Wiley & Sons

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023). ‘machismo’, Encyclopedia Britannica, October 3. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/machismo [Accessed: 20 November 2023]

Mayo, Y. (1997) ‘Machismo, Fatherhood and the Latino Family’, Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 5(1-2), p.p. 49-61. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1300/J285v05n01_05 [Accessed: 20 November 2023]

Mulvey, L., (1975) ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, 16(3), p.p. 6–18, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/16.3.6 [Accessed: 28 November 2023]

Oliver, K. (2017) ‘The male gaze is more relevant, and more dangerous, than ever’, New Review of Film and Television Studies, 15(4), p.p. 451-455, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2017.1377937 [Accessed: 28 November 2023]

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