The male gaze theory is a theory that suggests that the representation of women in music video is as a sexual fantasy from a heterosexual male's point of view. Women are seen as an image and men are the controlling subjects, aka men do the looking and women are there to be looked at. But in a feminists point of view this would be seen as unfair, because that's not women serve as their purpose. But in most music videos women are sexualised and made to look vulnerable and sexy.
A few examples of music videos that sexualise women are listed below.
Robin thicke's 'Blurred lines' this is the clean version, although the unrated version is far worse.
Miley cyrus 's 'We can't stop' & 'Wrecking ball'
Eric Prydz' 'call on me'
All of these music videos contain women dancing or in minimal clothing which supports the idea of the male gaze theory.
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