Critical Approaches to Gender and 21st Century Pop Music

I love this song, this is when I feel Lilly Allen was at her prom dress and nike airmax wearing best. Lilly Allen used to sing about her real personal experiences such as 'my little brothers in his bedroom smokin weed!'. I feel she was always a very authentic artists however I feel in recent years she has lost some of that authenticity my distancing herself from that side of her past and singing about more mainstream things such as love which she does when featuring in Pinks recent song 'True Love'.

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.

I thought this music video contributed to our discussion about the theme of the coming of age, "good girl gone bad" story that is of interest in popular culture. It also comments on gender and feminism.

A parody of Blurred Lines

After learning that Miley Cyrus sees her as a model, Sinead O'Connor wrote her an open letter urging her to see that corporations are using her and will leave her out to dry once she's "used up." Cyrus's unfortunate response on Twitter was to call her crazy.

Apple recently released a radio program similar to that of Pandora, another online radio service. While Pandora uses mathematical algorithms to choose music for the listener, iTunes Radio will use humans/Apple geniuses to choose music similar to tracks the listener likes. Katy Perry is featured as the guest DJ currently, where she shares an insight to her musical taste and artists that inspire her. She inserts her commentary and shares an anecdote occasionally. I found this interesting because a good portion of the music she chooses to play are rap songs or songs with a darker undertone, not what most people would expect perhaps?