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I just found this amusing. The body swap between Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus is particularly funny as you could say they are known for being the complete opposite in where they stand.

What was the point in bringing Adele into her body issues? I understand that the press are going to ask her about her weight, but i dont see why she should have to compare her body to that of someone elses to justify her weight gain.

What she says makes me angry, I think the reason no one comments on Adeles weight the same as Lady Gaga is because Adele doesn't pose in her underwear so people can see how thin she is and hope they chage their view of her. Adele always says she is who she is love it or hate it which I personally really admire. I saw an interview of Adele where she said her weight and the way she looked was irrelavant to her music and shes not interested in people liking her; its all about the music for Adele. Instead of comparing herself in terms of weight maybe Gaga could compare authenticity and talent which is surely more important.

This short blurb about Beth Ditto walking the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier addresses the misconceptions of her being unhealthy. It shows how today's culture sees skinny women as always healthy, and bigger women as unhealthy and even detestable. Ditto says she is "tired of proving herself all the time." This sheds light on how women of Ditto's size must constantly prove that they're comfortable with their bodies.

Cover of We Can't Stop that is interesting in its representation of black people. Links to what was discussed in class, in Cyrus' video the balck women are used as props in this video they play a much more active role.

This video is fascinating -- it seems to not only speak to Cyrus's original video, but also the Pixies video we watched the first day of class (I'm thinking of the scenes of bathing in milk and fruitloops). A perhaps reclaiming of black bodies and spaces?

I think the line that Lil Wayne says "I walked up to a big butt" is very dehumanizing of women because it talks of women only as their one body part