Music Video: Logo and Research

  •   Name: The Smile Mores, Viva La Riot 
  • Use of riot grrrl/pussy riot/punk rock aesthetic and ideals with aesthetic of riot grrrl newspapers/collages 
  • Feminine icons in history and the Bible
  • For centuries Eve was used as a way to “prove” women’s inferiority — she was called lesser because she was created from Adam’s rib and she was called wicked for eating the forbidden fruit
  • Eve is the only one in the Garden of Eden story that actually questions the status quo — or questions anything at all
  • She also shows no sign of seeing herself as anything other than equal to Adam
  • She goes on to live her life anyway, raising children, becoming the mother of all humanity, and living to be 511

Esther

  • Risks her own life to more or less single-handedly save the entire Jewish people.
  • Esther then defies Persian law by presenting herself to the king without being summoned
  • Instead of sitting by and playing it safe used her power to advocate for others, stood up for her people, saved countless lives, and forever changed Judaism.

Joan of Arc

  • national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance
  • Led the French army in a momentous victory
  • Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic.
Use of Joan for female icon, and ‘The Smilers’ in newspaper cutouts for intertextuality of The Sex Pistols with a modern twist by using colour instead of monochrome
Open mouth as a symbol of female rage, with the use of the intertextual print cutouts, maybe too close to The Rolling Stones

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