Sexism In Popular Music

Her clothes accentuate her cleavage or have a sexual shock factor, such as wearing “sequined pasties…[that] coordinate with the rest of her attire”. The vulgar, sexual nature of her raps makes it impossible for her to not receive attention from the media. Another artist, Eve, dresses sexually to accentuate her body and appears in videos with music video models but raps about social issues like domestic violence. By comparing the nature of these artists and their music, Perry tries to show that young girls have very few role models in hip hop that promote positive feminists values and body images. But, she neglects to discuss other feminist artists she mentions in the essay such as Destiny’s Child and Mary J. Blige and how their lyrics and actions in the media allow young black girls to have positive role models that show a woman can be independent, strong, and beautiful in their own way. Perry’s focus on the more sexualized female artists in hip hop and how their shocking appearance and lyrics allow them to be as successful as their male counterparts took away from the development of her argument about conservative artists and their success. By leading the reader to believe that artists are either overly-sexual or conservative, Perry limits how the reader forms an opinion on why or why not young girls’ body image may be threatened by the media and the hip hop

He wants his audience to understand that the music video’s messaging is that the most important aspect of a woman is her

Feminists that approach analyzing popular culture proceed from a variety of theoretical positions that carry with them a deeper social analysis and political agenda. Popular culture has been a critical part of feminist analysis. “Cultural politics are crucially important to feminism because they involve struggles over meaning” (Storey, Intro 136). Analyzing a piece of pop culture through a feminist viewpoint, whether it be a music video or any sort of media, opens up a broader discussion about the structure of our patriarchal society and the ways in which politics are constantly portrayed and

Beyoncé recently released her music video on Saturday February 6, 2016. Beyoncé 's "Formation" video forms messages in text and visuals that fits today 's social issues. They call attention to the audience mainly for women and Black America. This piece of rhetoric creates meaning in society by giving us events and visuals to help the

In the music videos, I saw women being mistreated. I can’t knock someone’s hustle but I don’t think artists need to take their videos to the extreme. I didn’t feel like Biggie, Tupac, and Cash Money [popular artists in the early 90s] were as fixated on the women. They were more about showing off their money and cars, and clothes. (Roberts-Douglass & Curtis-Boles, 2012, p. 10)

inflicted” (King 77). This quote indicates the symbolic meaning that Lorde portrays because it displays how the past experiences can improve an individual’s life. Additionally, in “Man’s Child” by Audre Lorde, she focuses

Beyonce is an African American female artist making incorporating empowering messages for women around the world. She is creating work that speaks to an audience that might not receive authentic mainstream. Beyonce ultimate goal is to visually and sonically entice wisdom through her music. Recently in a shocking video release, Beyonce debuted a new song “Formation” as well as a politically charged music video. This song was an uproar in the music industry worldwide. Millions of people around the world negatively viewed this song as a controversy. The music video and song caused many people to debate and cause a worldwide conflict.

In Lorde’s, “The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action”, it tells her own story of how she is trying to speak up for herself as a woman despite her being scared of speaking publicly because she is a woman. She really wanted to speak but was scared of what people were going to think about her because of who she is. That was the case until she found out that there was a chance she might die or not from a tumor. She realized she needed to act now and get the word out of whatever she wanted to say. In Lorde’s speech, she says, “I was going to die, if not sooner than later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me” (Lorde 8). This illustrates that she realizes that keeping quiet does nothing anyway because she was going to die any other way. The consequence that she faces by not

Audre Lorde was a writer, poet, mother, feminist, civil rights advocate, and more. According to the Poetry Foundation, Lorde dedicated a large part of her life and creative talents to confront the issues of sexisum, homophobia, racism, and more. She was concerned with modern society’s excessive need to sort individuals into different groups of people. She believed in power and change within the world. Her poems and writings can relate not only to those who are in search for change, but crave love, fulfillment, and revolution. Throughout her poem, “Movement Song”, Audre Lorde captures the raw emotions one possesses while slowly letting go of a loved individual whie using poetic devices including complex methaphors, repition,

This hallmark of hers can be observed in the song ‘I’ve Got Your Man.’ Both the lyrical and visual content of ‘I’ve got your man’ encompasses various Jamaican cultural aspects and also illustrates the defiance of Lady Saw to the double standard of sexual behaviour

This provides sensory detail by the usage of figurative language. The speaker is trying to get across to the audience that she is feeling blinded and/or trapped because of how African-Americans during that time period were treated. Moreover, Lorde emphasizes the poor treatment with the final two lines of the first stanza which leaves the audience thinking. “in the breathless precision

Within West’s music video, “Monster”, women are constantly placed in the object position in that they do not have an agency or power and are used as accessories to, essentially, attract viewers and sell music. “Monster” was featured in West’s album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In just five words, the title of the album summarizes the music video of his song “Monster”. Although extremely misogynistic in his portrayal of women in his music videos and lyrics, Kanye does not see a problem with the way his video was interpreted. Though morbid, Kanye intended the song be inspirational somehow. In a book written on Kanye West by Mark Beaumont, Kanye stated:

(Walker) In comparison to this, in Poetry is not a luxury, there is also a sense of heritage and looking back upon where they came from, and Lorde emphasizes the fact that women need to be more in touch with their past. “But as we become more in touch with our own ancient, black, non-European view of living as a situation to be experienced and interacted with, we learn more and more to cherish our feelings, and to respect those hidden sources of our power from where true knowledge and therefore lasting action comes.”

Lorde is challenging white feminists to see the difference as a new form of power that links both groups, for by truly recognizing how hierarchical forms of oppression directly informs the lived experiences of black women will foster empowerment, honest understanding, and love of one another. Loving each other is a tool Lorde gives us to move beyond the master’s house. I believe the practice of loving one another stretches across social divisions, which is an often forgotten form of power. This type of love will hold space for a deeply vulnerable and inclusive feminist practice, which reclaims the membership that black women have within their own communities and their twisted recognition by American political

The music video begins with 50 Cent in the company of women in lingerie. In addition to the lyrical hook, the theme has been firmly introduced where 50 Cent is the dominant male figure because he is a pimp, while his female company is playing the gender