Critical Approaches to Gender and 21st Century Pop Music

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Music Video showing more Campy view of coming out of the closet and how gay men might even 'change/switch' straight men.

Why the saying is wrong

I found this lyric video for Childish Gambino's (aka Donald Glover) new single 3005 extremely interesting because instead of your typical lyric video affair, it is set up as a online chat, with Gambino's lyrics being posted as the messages he's sending to the girl in the chat, who occasionally posts responses, and dances around to the music. It is an interesting and clever use of the lyric video

An interesting article on Britney Spears tabloid fame and new her new Las Vegas residency.

Miley Cyrus claims that she is the one of the biggest feminist out there.

Plus size model without being given the title "plus size"?

In this article that I found, Victoria's Secret Angel Jessica Hart, declares that she didn't think that Taylor Swift was a good choice for this years fashion show. She doesn't really explain why just saying that she didn't "fit".

A posting about Beth Ditto.  After her interview with Hattersley, someone commented that she was promoting obesity.  Stewart writes about this comment.

A student at U of Western Ontario explains how white men in her mostly white college town fetishize and objectify her as a black woman, drawing on bell hooks' theory of "eating the other" -- this might be useful for anyone writing about race and sexuality.

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.

This is a short article I found about how Elton John has expressed concerned about the two aforementioned stars. I thought it was very interesting because he compares Miley's recent stunts to Lindsey Lohan, claiming that she is a "meltdown waiting to happen." (There's also an expanded version of the article available.) Thoughts?

I think this article shows Elton John as a supreme authority on female pop artists and enforces the idea of them as "meltdowns" and people in a mess. He uses his masculine power to downgrade female artistis. At the end of this article, I thought it was interesting that he discussed privacy of celebrities in the media. He considers this a detriment to celebrities and neglects to acknowledge how fan connection and participatory culture can be meaningful.