Task 3

Critical Investigation Task #3
Historical text analysis and research

Salt n Pepa

Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens, New York.

The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt"), Sandra Denton ("Pepa"), and Deidra Roper ("DJ Spinderella") and was formed in 1985 and was one of the first all-female rap groups.

"Let's Talk About Sex" is a song released by the American hip-hop trio Salt-n-Pepa. It was released as a single from their Blacks' Magic album in 1991, and achieved great success in many countries

The song talks about safe sex, the positive and negative sides of sex and the censorship that sex had around that time in American mainstream media.

The music video for "Let's Talk About Sex" directed by Millicent Shelton starts in a black-and-white scene with a girl turning on a radio and listening to the song. Then she starts kissing her boyfriend and scenes of Salt-n-Pepa and other couples kissing and hugging are shown. Next the video colorizes when Salt-n-Pepa are shown dancing.

This song is similar to my primary text and other latest singles as the lyrics are still around and about a sexual or an exotic nature. The song is different compared to latest hits and my primary text as it doesn’t over sexualise women and promotes safe sex rather than downgrading. There is no close up shots of boobs or bums in the video, which is different compare to now, where in Anaconda by Nicki Minaj there are several shots of Boobs and bums such as ; 0:19, 0:47, 0:57, 1:08, 1:18. There are also other very sexual or exotic shots such as 1:34 where there is a long shot of Nicki Minaj in pretty much a bright pink “thong” and “bra”, and there is another shot of her just bending over whilst wearing this “thong”. This is later followed by a couple shots of her giving lap dance to another artist named Drake. These are things that are not seen in "Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt-N-Pepa