Scene Queen: Three different representations

Pink Rover, the music video

Scene Queens release 'pink rover', released on March 3rd, 2022 is a narrative about the experiences that women/ femme presenting people go through when they are catcalled and harassed on the street, and is also a revenge fantasy of sorts about killing the harassers.

The ideology in the music video is about highlighting the rage felt as being sexually harassed/catcalled on the street.

There are a lot of references to pagan witchcraft within the video, which could symbolise the fact that catcalling and sexual harassment is so normalised within our society that to get rid of it one needs to do something inhuman, unnatural like witchcraft. Scene Queen choses to represent herself in this way, rather then it being a representation built up by the media or the audience, she chooses to make her stance on this issue clear through her music and the music video.

The lyric 'do you like that?' is repeated multiple times in the song, and the music video matches that by having Scene Queen state the lyric right up into the face of the camera in an aggressive manner, which is symbolic of how a sexual predator would treat their victims, with 'oh but they liked it' often being a defence against allegations of sexual assault. Throughout the video there's a continuing juxtaposition of the men being kidnapped, tied up and killed/used in a pagan ritual, and the rest of the partygoers having the time of their lives blissfully unaware of what's going on around them, which could be denoted as a representation of how sexual assault is ignored in the real world, with the people around them unaware of what's actually going on.

This music video is Scene Queen choosing to represent herself as someone who is sick and tired of society ignoring these issues and silencing their victims, with her being the one to give these people a voice and a chance to take revenge, even if it is fake

Scene Queen's twitter.

contrary to her music videos and songs, her twitter seems to be a place where she can express who she is as a person, not just a media product. She shares with her fans the highs and lows of being a woman, especially a feminine woman, in an industry/genre that is actively hostile to people like her, and she shares the personal struggles that she has gone through as a direct result of this alienation by the industry.

'Not that it matters but you cant even fathom the amount of strength it took to go from this to this while being on the internet /in the industry I am. Recovering is fucking exhausting and something I still think about almost daily but I am so much more free now. And idk I’m proud'

There were two images posted with this tweet, (a then vs now comparison of how she looked physically) although i will not be posting the images in this post. Scene queen has stated various times that due to the pressures of being a woman in a male dominated genre of music, she felt that she had to conform to one of two boxes in order to have a successful career, and because of this she developed an eating disorder, although she is in recovery now.

This is Scene Queen representing herself as someone who has risen above the challenges of being a female in a male dominated genre, and she is proud of herself for it, and for being able to recover whilst simultaneously having a successful music career and the struggles that come with that. Scene Queen's face is shown in neither of the two photos, although the change in style is an obvious indicator of just how much more comfortable she feels in her body now. In the 'then' photo, she is wearing plain clothes with very little colour in the outfit, which is a direct juxtaposition to her outfit in the 'now' photo, in which it is short, fluffy and bright pink. The adoption of pink could reflect how Scene Queen has embraced her femininity within the persona of 'Scene Queen' that she has curated for her brand. Scene Queen is a hyper-feminine persona, and the clothes in the second photo reflect the adoption of this persona.

Kerrang! Article.

This article, written by Emma Wilkes, explores the hyper-femininity of Scene Queen, and the reasons for the persona's curation in the first place. She didn't feel like she could be who the music industry wanted her to be, and so she stuck two middle fingers up and became Scene Queen: a hyper-feminine character who could still threaten anyone who dared cross her with violence (see pink rover) She created her specific aesthetic to make a point about the scene and the way it treats women, specifically outwardly feminine women.

This article represents Scene Queen as someone who is not afraid to talk about the problems within the industry that she works in, but who is also unafraid to talk about the specific issues she has had with the industry.