The influence of popular culture on young people is a well-described and researched place in literature, but the politics of the representation of femininity has an ambivalent place, ranging from emancipatory to enslaving interpretations of sexualized performances of femininity. That is why there is a need for local empirical research on concrete interpretations and reception of popular cultural images, narratives, and discourses among different social groups. The goals of this research are to map the basic themes, arguments and ways of negotiation that appear when high school students in focus groups interpret several music videos of popular songs in Croatia, with a special focus on the performance of femininity. The paper will present an overview of relevant literature that talks about the development of music videos, as well as femininity, gender stereotypes, gender roles, how we learn them, and where everything is shown to us. Furthermore, the paper presents the portrayal of women in the media and points to the sexualization of women in music videos and supports it with examples. The paper also analyses the literature on the influence of music videos on young people, guided by the question of how young people identify with their idols and characters from music videos, and shows examples of how young people see a typical female singer. To map the basic themes and narratives, the research uses focus groups in which high school students aged 16 from the Đakovo area participated. Participants were shown three music videos that were discussed according to a previously designed question guide. The results show that the objectification and sexualization of women and men as the target audience appear as the most common topics in the discussions of high school students about the performances of femininity in music videos. In the discussion about the meaning of the collected data, emphasis is placed on the issue of impact on young people.