Look Into Me: Unpacking Exoticism and Hotness in the Music of “Stray Gods”

This research analyzes the music of the video game "Stray Gods” through semiotic lenses of Orientalism and the use of ♭2̂ as a sonic signal of hotness in post-millennial pop music. Together, these semiotic lenses reveal a musically stereotypical depiction of Medusa, the serpent-headed Gorgon in Greek mythology.