Social construction in the Sam Smith music video

 Body language throughout the music video might be their way of expressing their message. Their body language is representing the story as he sings. According to stageminded.com “In dance our purpose is to express emotions, communicate physically, allowing those feelings to travel through the body.” This demonstrates Dance can be a nonverbal form of communication through our movements.

The video transmits a sense of gender equality because not only women can dance the way they are during the music video. The Sam Smith Music video relates to Butler’s theory of gender performance by changing the perspective that we can only perform based on feminism and masculinity. In fact Sam smith also said in an interview ‘I’m not male or female’.

How it relates to Judith's Butler view of representation.

Some ideas and values conveyed by the Judith Butler video is that gender is a standard behavior. Society needs to inherit the ability to accept one’s gender and sexual preferences, Judith provided her experience when she encountered a stranger who questioned her sexuality and was even surprised when she confirmed it. A quote by Judith Butler “The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’ who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.” This also means no one has a specific gender norms tell us what to be and everyone has the right to change who they are.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. -Judith Butler