'Video Games’ is populated by action verbs such as ‘swinging’, ‘pull up’, ‘whistling’, ‘open up’, ‘play’, ‘lean in’. They contribute to the construction of a dichotomy between masculinity and femininity: the male protagonist’s associations with fast cars, the whistling of a woman’s name, drinking beer and playing video games, and the depiction of the female through what she is wearing (‘his favorite sun dress’), the way she is feeling (‘drunk and I am seeing stars this is all I think of’) and her position in relation to the man, summed up by the line ‘it’s all for you’ (the dress, the perfume, the body on display, even finding pleasure in what in a different context could be read as tedious video-game playing).
