Critical Approaches to Gender and 21st Century Pop Music

She talks about being a self-employed human statue. At 9:00 she speaks about her crowd funding.

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

Why the saying is wrong

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

Happy Thanksgiving!

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

Wow! What a way to see from the perspective of another family. How the individuals that took part everyday experiences differed by changing their own skin colour.

Lily Allen's response to accusations that her new video is racist

Berreby: "The previous belief of many lay people and health professionals that obesity is simply the result of a lack of willpower and an inability to discipline eating habits is no longer defensible."

I just wanted to add this in because I knew Gossip sounded familiar and this was the first time I had heard them.

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.

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.