Painful Perfection

Beyonce's video for "Pretty Hurts" calls attention to how American culture views beauty. This video shows the reality of beauty pageants and how society's depiction can affect someone. A lyric from this song, "perfection is a disease of a nation" and "its the soul that needs the surgery" explains how society is so focused on perfection that it puts an impact on someone's mind, soul and how they view themselves. It refers to how girls at a young age are taught to be pretty and not focus on their life goals. A scene in this music video shows Beyonce's character being asked the question, "What is your aspiration in life" and she responds by saying, "I wasn't expected that question." this reinforces the fact that girls particularly in a beauty pageant to think about their life goals and just focus on being pretty or perfect, since the whole point of the pageant is to vote on which woman is the prettiest, but not based on what their life goals. This video shows some truths of American culture but does not enforce them, but instead shows how bad these depictions are