This study employs bell hooks’ theory on Black women’s anger and Audre Lorde’s theory on the use of eroticism as power to analyze the music videos “Roc Steady” and “Thot Shit” by Megan Thee Stallion, focusing on how anger expressions are represented in the music videos. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method and uses the scenes and lyrics as the data of the study. In analyzing the data, this research utilizes Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotics theory, focusing on the aspects of firstness, secondness, and thirdness. The music videos represent the elements of horror and eroticism, which conflict with each other as a single element. However, correlating the conflicting representations to the wider Black women’s experience living under the values of racism and patriarchy, the signs of horror and eroticism open to reinterpretation of the powerlessness of Black women. Rather than being submissive women, the music videos portray a mockery of the racial and patriarchal values. Through such representation, the combination of horror and eroticism can be interpreted as Black women’s anger and a form of protest against the injustice system.
