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The article discusses the impact of hyper-sexualisation in music videos and magazines and the negative effect they have on teen girls confidence, education and employment. The article also refers to 'video-vixens' such as Miley Cyrus and Rihanna who can be seen as 'toxic role models' according to writer Liz Jones.

Bajan pop star Rihanna has swapped hot pants for hijabs as her Diamonds World Tour takes her to Abu Dhabi - but she's still courting controversy BY Olivia Bergin | 21 October 2013 Pop superstar Rihanna will happily don a T-shirt and knee-high boots for a trip to the zoo, but as her world tour takes her to the more reserved countries in the Middle East, she's had to adapt her wardrobe accordingly.

Rihanna continues to update her Instagram with scandalous pictures of herself.

This is Rihanna's new song and video, I thought it was interesting as I feel it is a good example of how ratchet cultural as gone mainstream.

The video for Rihanna's new single Pour It Up. I think its interesting how provocative and sexualised the video is and the timing going up against Cyrus' recent scandals. The importance of twerking in the video as well, Cyrus may not have started the culture but her appropriation of it has definitely made it a more popular trend.

Good example of the ethnicity/ culture discussion we had today

For Rubin article

An article about Rihanna's recent incident in Abu Dhabi where she offended the local people when she posed 'suggestively outside a Mosque. An example of the stereotyped persona of black artists to be 'provocative' and 'wild'.

This tumblr blog post contains images of various female artists who have appeared nude in their videos, noting the reaction to Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" has been different than to other artists' nudity, who have been called "artistic," "beautiful," "cute," and "sexy," while Cyrus gets shamed as "slutty."

Did you ever hear a lyric and be like, "Wait, what did they just say?" Shockingly, only about half of these are from Nicki Minaj. This is a comical look at some lyrics in songs that the lyrics make no sense. I think there is something for almost everyone (genre) in this post

This is an interesting find, when you read the lyrics you realise how little sense they make. Perhaps this demonstrates how its not just music that is important for an artist to make it in the industry. Rihanna for example could sing anything and still make hits perhaps this is because or her risqué performances and outfit choices. It is interesting when you said have you ever listened and thought "wait what did they say" in all honestly I don't I just sing the song without questioning the lyrics, perhaps because the song is in the charts by a popular artist therefore it must be good!