Carry Out

In Justin Timberlake and Timbaland’s music video entitled “Carry Out” the images and the lyrics in the video help depict a certain stereotype and myth. The myth that they are displaying in this video is the myth of the stereotypical player. This video and song depicts the myth of the stereotypical player by using social facets such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. In this the race of the stereotypical player is displayed as being mostly black. The race of the stereotypical player is seen as being an African American from this video is because the artist, Timbaland, is of African American decent. Almost of the men in this video, besides Justin Timberlake is African American. Also in the video they way that everyone dances, including Justin Timberlake, dances like they move to the music well and like they have flow, which is typically the way players and African Americans dance. The song also talks about the social facet of gender to display the stereotypical player. This video and song depicts the stereotypical player as being a male. This song accomplishes stereotyping the myth of the play as being a male by the artist and the only ones in the whole video who are speaking are males. Also the video helps depict the stereotypical player as being a male because in the video there is always at least two women for every man. Since there is only one man and two females the viewer can infer that the two females are with the male by choice and that the man is smooth enough to get two women at once. The women in this video are also in revealing clothes which show that they wish to appeal to males in the video as well as the audience. So since the women in the video are wearing revealing clothes they are trying to appeal to the males in the video. The myth of the player is further depicted as being a man when Timbaland is talking to one of the women and he controls the conversation and gets the woman’s number. The stereotypical player is also a person who is part of a certain social class. This song and video display the myth of the player as being part of the middle and working class. This is shown in this video by the type of clothes that they are wearing. In this video they are wearing typical everyday clothes, jeans and t-shirts. They are considered part of the middle and working class because in the video they are wearing typical every day clothes. When Justin Timberlake is wearing the suit in the video can be seen as the middle class having one good suit that they wear every now and then. In the video they also talk about common name food places such as “I Hop” and using the drive thru. These are normal places where middle and working class citizens go frequently. Even though the song is not talking about getting food from these places he still refers to them which proves that he knows about them. Another type of social facet that is used in this video to depict the stereotypical myth of the player is his sexual orientation. The myth of the player has a heterosexual sexual orientation. Not only does he have sexual relations with the opposite gender, but he has sexual relationships with multiple women. This is shown in the video by all the different women that are in the video making physical contact with the men. This shows them as wanting the men and makes the men look desirable. One particular line of the song says that “I’m gonna touch you in all the right areas”. This line shows that the artist of the song is in a sexual relationship with at least one woman. Another part of the song he says what’s your name, and then immediately what’s your number. This shows that the artist does not care to talk to the woman who he is talking to for a long time instead he wishes to have a sexual relation with her, with little feelings. From this video of Justin Timberlake and Timbaland singing “Carry Out” we get an image of the myth of the player through the social facets of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation.