White and Nerdy
Music Video
The music video of the song, White And Nerdy by
Weird Al does a good job illustrating nerds as socially awkward multiple times
through the video. It begins with the
nerd mowing the grass and sees these two gangsters drive up near his
house. Waving to the gangsters as though
he is best friends with them and stumbling across his lawn to shake their hands
(an awkward way to greet a friend), the nerd is rejected as they drive away
looking at him in a disgusted sort of way.
At one point, he is giving what appears to be his mom a present, which
turns out to be an extension cord and her face shows disappointment, almost
disgust even. Most people understand
that giving someone a gift should be something they would like, not that you
like. Then it later shows him spending
his night hanging out with rolled up bubble wrap. Having to compensate having friends by
hanging out with an inanimate object clearly goes to show that he has trouble
making friends. Moreover, the entire rap
is sung by this nerdy kid, and everything he does to try to fit in with the
gangsters he thinks is cool, but it only ends up making his social life even
worse.
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