Professor Nellis asked us today if we could see through the perspective of at least one theory while watching Katy Perry's "Hot n' Cold" music video. This video reveals what Katy's fiancé is thinking as he is about to say the two most critical words at that time.
http://youtu.be/kTHNpusq654
Looking from the empirical-analytical perspective, I see how Katy truly has the objective to see her future husband say "I do" at the alter. She observes his nervousness as he drifts off into thoughts on the subject of her thinking he is over analyzing the situation. She and others that are sitting, witnessing the wedding anticipate his words and are left on the edge of their seats. They all, in some way, control his answer by putting him under the pressure of saying yes to a life spent with Katy. Does he want this?? His thoughts prove differently...
From the situational interpretive point of view, many viewers are able to relate with Katy's fiancé. He, like many other people, on their wedding day can become anxious and assume things before they happen. So many people get 'cold feet' before their wedding. Nervousness can over come them with thoughts that they are making the biggest and possibly the worst decision of their entire life.
The perspective that I saw as most evidently related to this video was the critical-theoretic. The majority of the music video is of what the man is really thinking under his surface of patience and submission. As Katy is waiting on her fiancé's reply to the pastors question of "Will you take this woman?" the another question is posed.... If what the video portrays is true about Katy's character, then her fiancé is doomed for a life of submission under her forceful authority to tell him what he is like in her eyes.
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