Diane asks Betty why none of the other ladies will discuss to her. The music video for “Blurred Lines” was directed by Diane Martel. Contemporary critics universally commended the music video for its themes and manufacturing values. Critics word this resonates whether or not on Crenshaw, Eight Mile or a bullet-scarred road running parallel with an oil pipe line. In October 2005, residents of Frederica, Delaware, observed a lady’s body hanging from a tree about 15 feet (4.5 meters) above the ground alongside a reasonably busy road. The song was used to soundtrack a number of shows during London Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week the same month. A author for Spin declared that thematically, the video “belonged in the same wheelhouse” as Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” video, in its feminism and desert setting, but past their “surface similarities (large explosions, huge emphasis on the girls)”, the two clips veered off in several directions. Elizabeth Flock writing in the Washington Post noted that the video was made at a time when Saudi ladies started combating towards the ban outdoors of court docket and on-line, whereas following the release of the video, two Saudi female activists – Manal al-Sharif and Samar Badawi – filed lawsuits against the federal government for refusing to provide them a driver’s licence, the primary high-profile authorized challenge to the nation’s ban on female drivers.
Claire Suddath of Time agreed that at first glance, the video appeared to be a political assertion on women drivers in Saudi Arabia and a trendy, aesthetically pleasing piece, stating that the video was enjoyable both manner and that audiences could all agree that women and males should have the ability to “drag race, pop wheelies and drive their automobiles on two wheels” equally. M.I.A. leads a crowd of women decked in conventional Middle-Eastern garb with a hipster twist, in a modern-day Rebel-Without-A-Cause-esque drag race. The video was each heralded and criticised for confronting women’s rights in Saudi Arabia; the portrayal of women carrying the niqāb driving automobiles is strictly prohibited in Saudi Arabia, whereas some media retailers accused the video of propagating Arab stereotypes. Saudi Arabia, continuing “if she’s being accused of stereotyping, then she’s turning the oriental fantasy on its head when she has Arabian girls dressed in khaki styled, although still Arabian, gown or gear, toting guns and strutting their stuff with a swagger unknown to the conservative feminine society that has women closed off or ‘haremed’ from the male gaze. M.I.A’s women are a far-cry from the harem-veiled subversive mysterious ladies of the oriental fantasy of their floaty feminine veils, if we’re accusing her of feeding stereotypes. She’s toying with the militarized West infiltrating Arabia. Sexing it up a notch to have her ‘bad girls’ taking male guns and aggro”.
Elizabeth Broomhall, writing in Arabian Business, appreciated M.I.A. Writing in Seattle Weekly, Todd Hamm described it as one of the best music video of the 12 months thus far. The video received Best Direction, and Best Cinematography on the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. The video for “Bad Girls” premiered on Noisey, Vice’s new music channel on YouTube, on 2 February 2012 at a complete length of four minutes and twelve seconds. It was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video the place it lost to Rihanna’s “We Found Love” again. It was also nominated for Video of the Year however lost out to Rihanna’s “We Found Love”. The music was nominated for awards, together with Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance on the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Musically, “Blurred Lines” is an R&B and pop monitor with instrumentation consisting of bass guitar, drums, and percussion. NME Track Reviews – M.I.A.
The song acquired usually unfavourable opinions from music critics, with some saying it glorified rape culture. The setting of the music video options crumbled architecture, sustained over years of attack; smouldering oil tankers; younger males in kaffiyeh, standing round bored; mysterious girls coated from head to toe, with solely their kohl-lined eyes flashing out. Women are depicted gyrating while wearing designs in cheetah patterns, polka dots and gold. He welcomed M.I.A.’s “ditching of the gaudy GIF imagery and digital weirdo phase” of her early work, while feeling the singer remained “as flashy” and confident as ever. Comfort Clinton of PopMatters hailed the video as “definitely” echoing the lyrics of the song “dwell quick, die young”, with demise-defying stunts and automobiles driving “more dramatic circles than M.I.A.’s hip gyrations”, described M.I.A.’s issues about the video as being “just a part of” the each day grind for a true “Bad Girl”. M.I.A. deadpans to the camera about having sex in automobiles while vamping in front of those tanker fires.