Analysis Of Beautiful By Christina Aguilera

Many people think that the poem A Song, by Helen Maria Williams, is just a love letter when, in fact, it is more of an expression of her relationship with her inspiration of writing.

Music comes in various styles that work to evoke emotions and deliver messages to listeners. Whether it be jazz, rock, or soul, music serves to fill the gaps in ourselves and show us how we are all the same. As an artist that merged from the early 2000s, Rihanna has diversified herself in ways that we cannot brand her by any one particular genre. Like may artist, she works to create music that can reach her listeners and allow them to connect with her on another level. Despite her start, she has grown to the point where her songs go beyond the “pop” label society has branded it. A prime example would be one of her recent works, “Love on the Brain,” released on her recent album Anti in 2017. Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain” is a classic love ballad that uses qualities, often associated with soul and rock, to reminisce a song typical of the 1960s, telling a story emphasized by the lyrics to go beyond the realm of a standard pop record.

Most people in this world today have been judged or criticized for something. This has been shown through some of my experiences I have had in the past. For example, one day when I was at school, I witnessed two of my friends who were talking about another one of my friends, but it wasn’t good words being said. My friends said that he was wearing gross clothes as well as that, he wasn’t the smartest kid. This evidence suggests that my friend with bad clothes couldn’t control that and he was being judged by the way he looked but he was a really nice kid. His family, maybe couldn’t afford that, but the kids that were judging him didn’t realize the advantages they had compared to him.

Don't look at me is the first line of Christina Aguilera's song "Beautiful." This instant whisper from the voice of Aguilera creates an ashamed vibe for the song. It is spoken quietly and without any musical instrumentation. As the music softly and brilliantly builds up to the first verse listener's already have a misinterpretation of the lyrics. The audience presumes that the song will be about depression or shame and disgrace because one would associate not wanting people to look at you with shame. However, once they read more into the lyrics they notice that the meaning of the song is much deeper than shame and actually has an opposite message. When the audience hears the title of the song they could

In longing to reach the norm many people fall victim to these detrimental illnesses. Sadly, women are more subject to these eating disorders than men, the number of men suffering from eating disorders is on the rise. Our culture puts pressure on each of its inhabitants to attain this ideal body type that is unrealistic for most people. The images that pollute television and magazines make us all feel inadequate if we don't meet the credentials of slenderness; therefore, continuing the role of our society in the development of eating disorders.

A famous social theorist named Simone De Beauvoir once said, “The dinner table is a battlefield where warriors defeat the eating disorder one bite at a time.” People with eating disorders should not be stereotyped. Everyday people suffer from this illness, and they are stereotyped by society. Each and every single person suffering with this illness is different. Patients under these circumstances should not have to wake up everyday and be judged because of an illness. To ensure all patients with eating disorders are not overlooked, stereotypes should be eliminated. Patients are not only young girls who want to be thin. Patients are far more diverse: not all of them are female, not all are young, and the desire to lose weight is not the basic cause.

People shame others to lose weight in a subtle way. It is not moral for people to be shaming anyone else for how they look. This concern can arise from setting body standards. On one hand, it is good for a person to want to be fit and do so in a healthy way, but to want to lose weight to feel “skinny” or to be accepted is wrong and many people do not see that. Once a person decides they want to feel accepted into social standards, the problems arise. They begin to plunge into diets without knowing what they are getting into. From there they can end up getting medical conditions that worsen their health. This ends up creating a negative snowball effect psychologically and physiologically.

The entirety of the song “Pretty Hurts” is an attack on the negative body image, showing how Beyoncé Knowles feels that the media is giving a strong impression to women and girls telling them to change themselves. Beyoncé Knowles has long been a face of feminism. As one of the most famous and powerful women in the world, she has used her fame to boost awareness about issues she feels passionately about. One of the issues she is most known for is her stance on women’s rights, and a prime example of her using her music to get a message across can be seen in the song “Pretty Hurts”. Within the first few seconds of the song’s accompanying music video we images of women with curlers in their hair, sucking in their stomachs, and tugging the skin off their bones in obvious frustration with their bodies.

In May of 2014 Psychology today published an article on the effects of weight labeling. The article focused on the story of a young woman named Sheila whose parents always worried about her gaining weight and becoming obese. Sheila explains that her whole life she was raised to think of being skinny as her way to get some where in her future. Sheila’s as a child weight a normal weight growing up; it wasn’t till Sheila hit puberty that she began to gain more weight. At first she explains her parents were fine with the extra weight, they even told her gaining weight is okay as long as you’re not fat. Shelia eventually became obese. The psychologist who wrote the article also explains

In society people who are thin are considered to have the perfect body. People see these models on social media, magazines and music videos and want to be their size because they feel like their body type is ''not good enough'', which they will starve themselves to death just to be the size that the media shows. people who are not the size that society seems to think is fit always get called ''big or fat'' and you need to loose weight, but getting called names causes people to have low-self esteem and pressure themselves to lose weight because they feel their body isn't accepted in society , but not everyone cares about what others think of their

In society today, the standards of beauty are set by media, which strongly correlates beauty with perfection. Particularly towards women, media portrays an unrealistic and unattainable ideal look that females should strive for. Unfortunately, in the process of attaining this perfect figure, a female’s happiness is sacrificed because of the extremes women must go through to achieve perfection. In the music video “Pretty Hurts,” by Beyoncé Knowles, portrays the negative effects of society’s standards on a female’s body, mentally, physically, and emotionally. The song is considered in the genre of power pop because of the meaningful and insightful message the music video tries to convey for viewers.

In both Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” and Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”, both women talk about the importance of loving yourself as you are. In both videos, the artists show different people who are ashamed of how they look or act. The type of people in the videos are gays, people with body image issues, and even people who struggle with social acceptance. Both singers send a message that says that you should love yourself the way you are and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.

-A woman's biggest hindrance in gaining and sustaining some self-confidence is the standard of beauty that the media constantly bombards us with. According to the media, a woman is considered “beautiful” when she’s young, skinny, with clear skin, a perfect white smile, lustrous locks, and an enviable body. Most regular everyday people won't always have

Now, let’s get the facts straight about “Beautiful” people’s self-esteem. Our self-esteem has been affected by the “Beautiful” people. We either have high or low self-esteems and the environment that we live in creates it. At work, school, and home we are surrounded by beautiful people with high self-esteems. The not so pretty people have low self-esteems towards the world and themselves. Dove gives plentiful facts about self-esteems related to beauty. Dove Self Esteem Fund, company, in the article "Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National report on the state of Self-Esteem" (2008), analyzes that girls have a lot of pressure due to emotional stress with ourselves. Dove gives a lot of ethos to back up each statement said. Dove talks about kids and parents in order to get to kids and parents to be involved in a positive way. This article attracts audience as young kids, teens, and parents. Parents also contribute to kid’s low self-esteem issues. Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem, commissioned by the Dove® Self-Esteem Fund, reveals that there is a self-esteem crisis in this country that pervades every aspect of a girl’s life including her looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members (Dove). Self-esteem is a key issue in the world. In the article it’s revealed as a crisis in the country and it’s mostly about beauty.

A young girl may hear a variety of tips on how to beautify herself, but do these pieces of advice make her genuinely happy? That sometimes depends on the music she hears around her, particularly on the radio. Many hit pop contemporary radio singles, generally performed by female recording artists, encourage a distorted perception of beauty that leads to the state of perception, which is usually nearly impossible to achieve. However, a select group of songs by female performers and their accompanying music videos promote the ideology that young women and girls do not have to make dramatic changes to their body or appearance to be perceived as beautiful. This message is widely spread by singers including Beyoncé, Meghan Trainor, and Alessia Cara.