{"id":342,"date":"2025-05-28T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=342"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:11:49","slug":"nice-to-have-070-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Nice to Have – 070 Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Close Textual Analysis of a Scene & Employing an Intersectional Analytic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Karina Morales-Pineda\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music Video: Nice to Have – 070 Shake<\/a> (4.42)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt’s nice to have someone to hold you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell you they chose you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone you can’t fool ’cause they know you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice to have someone to love you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come to your bed in the night when you’re alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s nice to have someone to love you (Mmm, mmm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayy, it’s nice to have someone to love you\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For my short analysis, I chose the music video for \u201cNice to Have\u201d by 070 Shake (Danielle Balbuena, she\/her), one of my favorite experimental and alternative R&B artists, for her unique sound and cinematic production. The song is about missing and yearning for a particular kind of love and appreciating it when you finally find it. Although 070 Shake has never defined her sexuality with labels, she has publically dated women and uses \u201cshe\/her\u201d pronouns in her lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Short Description:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video begins with a slowed-down and paused-in-time traffic jam caused by an accident far ahead, inside a busy tunnel. There are brief, slowed shots of the people inside every car. Inside, the people varied randomly by race and age: an older couple, families with only one parent, a younger couple fighting, a group of teenagers running around, a woman holding a baby she just birthed in the car, a lesbian couple making out on the roof of the car, kids singing, an older couple kissing in the public transport, a couple fighting while holding a gun with a \u201cjust married sign\u201d on their car, someone eating in there car alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dannielle is seen alone in all her shots, between the shots of other couples. Two dogs in her backseat once accompany her; another shot shows her alone on public transport, and one shows her alone driving and singing. These shots continue up the traffic and eventually to the accident site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the accident, Dannielle is bloodied and across the hood of a car that has crashed into a pickup truck full of flowers; a third wall is dropped at this point, and the camera is turned to the set workers of cameras, lights and sounds. The sound is slowed and reverbed in a chopped-and-screwed style, showcasing snippets of Danielle and immediately returning to the familiar faces of the couples, cars, and families, this time only highlighting the happy moments.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Short Analysis:  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Age was the most noticeable diversity in the shots of the random people\/couples\/family. There was a mix of joy and chaos across all ages, from the newborn child crying to the old couple kissing. There were a few queer couples scattered around, exhibiting different types of physical affection. However, most of the couples were heteronormative, with a  mix of female and male-presenting pairs. There was not anything hypersexual or objectifying about the scenes of kissing in public. Gender was always questioned at the beginning of her career; for her androgynous style, I did not find this fluidity explored in this music video, apart from Danielle herself. I would not change much from the shots of the random subjects, in and out of love. Showing Danielle injured and alone felt like the song came with the urgency of carpe diem. Each shot gave each family or couple the entire screen for some moments at a time, and even returned to the same characters at the end. This made each one feel like an important subject, especially the older couples showing affection. Because Danielle is private about her sexuality, I understand why she was not one of the subjects in and out of love. This music video is from 2019, and this is no longer the case, as Danielle has since showcased her queer relationship with Lily-Rose Depp in a newer music video, making her relationship the subject of her love songs. The portrayal of some same-sex affection as something normal and insignificant by an artist who writes about loving women without defining her sexuality is very queer to me as a consumer, even if Danielle does not define herself that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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