First Interview

1. What would you like to see in a soca music video?

People dancing and having lots of fun because that is what soca music is meant to convey.

2. What aspects of modern music videos do you like?

I like dancing in music videos, because it makes the video more entertaining especially street dance, if the dancing is good and portrayed to look like everyone’s having a good time it makes me want to also dance and makes me happy.
I like acting in music video, narratives, sometimes I don’t understand the lyrics and what the songs talking about but explaining it through picture helps me to understand it. But sometimes the narrative in the video doesn’t link to the song and that makes it looks silly.

3. How do you feel about certain representations presented in modern music videos? (i.e. girls, boys, sexuality etc.)

I don’t like the way women are always parading around music videos half naked, I think that it looks nasty. I don’t like the way in modern music video’s to be seen as beautiful is to be skinny, or to wear designer clothes and to have their hair done in a certain way. Being beautiful isn’t about the material things a woman has, it’s much deeper than that and I wish music video’s portrayed that more often.

4. Do you think soca music videos are easier to create than mainstream music videos? Why?

Yeah, they are easier to make than mainstream music videos, because soca music is mainly about having fun and carnival whereas mainstream music videos may be about anything and have to portray many other things.

Taiyo, Female, 13, Soca Music Fan