{"id":88,"date":"2025-04-21T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=88"},"modified":"2025-04-28T01:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T01:03:03","slug":"would-you-still-love-me-if-i-was-a-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The music video for \u201cLucky,\u201d a song off of the pop and R&B album Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain<\/em>, starts with an old-fashioned title card reminiscent of an old Hollywood film introducing Raveena and \u201cThe Worm.\u201d You then see Raveena\u2014wearing headphones and glasses and holding a book\u2014run to her window and stare with intrigue at The Worm walking by her house. The Worm is a human-sized caterpillar, a literal interpretation of the \u201clove-starved shell\u201d and \u201cblack shades\u201d Raveena says her lover hides behind in her lyrics. The music video then shows a montage of Raveena and The Worm on dates at a bookstore or having a picnic, making drinks, playing the piano, and slow dancing. These scenes are spliced with up close shots on a cam recorder of them seemingly documenting falling in love while Raveena croones \u201cmy feminine love can heal all the hurt.\u201d Occasionally, lyrics will be displayed on the bottom of the screen: \u201clet me be your escape from the world,\u201d and \u201cyou must know one thing\u2014I will change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second chorus sees Raveena waking up, looking around, and realizing her lover had turned into a little moth beside her. A white, plague doctor-esque moth holding a single white rose looks over the scene, before the cam recorder montage of Raveena and The Worm falling in love returns, with more lyrics displayed: \u201cif only you can see how you make me blush,\u201d \u201cI see your roses in every moment,\u201d and \u201cwon\u2019t you see them fall?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video ends with Raveena slowly walking towards a giant chrysalis in a white dress, then going back to the scene where Raveena sees the little moth. . . only this time, it flies away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song and music video is about the transformational power of love, how the right relationship can help a person grow their wings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only characters featured in the music video are Raveena\u2014a beautiful thirty-two year old Indian American woman\u2014and The Worm. While the montage scenes feel like they could have been taken from any movie depicting a love story, the social roles are somewhat subverted given that the love interest is a caterpillar, with no clear gender, age, class, or ethnicity. However, the identity of The Worm never posed a problem in their love story; both Raveena and The Worm are represented as normal, valuable, and worthy of love. Neither are objectified. While the ambiguity of The Worm\u2019s identity seems to be a general representation of otherization (and not a specific intersection of marginalized identities), The Worm itself is not othered.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a music video, it\u2019s a pretty lighthearted and silly piece of media. However, I found the rejection of the typical over sexualization of young, beautiful women in music videos no less meaningful! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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