Justin Bieber's video "Baby" has been a pop phenomenon. Teenage girls and boys gather at a Hard Rock bowling alley for Justin's video. The girls are on one side and the boys are on the other. The gender interaction seems to be like a "boys against girls" type deal. They start dancing and "battling" each other. First, Justin starts off the battle with the teenage girl who's his "baby". Then the rest of the boys and girls continue and get more into it. The dancing at this bowling alley is not a typical interaction we would see at a bowling alley. We especially wouldn't see them dancing in the middle of the aisles. The video does, however display what we would normally see in the 20th century. And that is teenage girls and boys hanging out, having fun and flirting with each other. If teenagers are not at the mall, or movie theatre, then they are at a bowling alley or maybe even dare I say it-skating rink! Teenagers just want to have fun, and clearly that is what is displayed in this video. The collaboration of Justin Bieber and Ludacris just shows how the times and the music industry have changed. We live in the age where Pop just meshes pretty well with everything and sells. If it’s not joined together with hip-hop and rap, it’s joined with country music. Is it not a beautiful thing!?
