Critical Approaches to Gender and 21st Century Pop Music

I thought this was an interesting article because it criticises that critique of 'blurred lines'. In that women are actually being liberated and respected as independent sexual beings and not objects that are subjugated by any man. The article states that i no way is there a claim for rape instead the women is indeed being consensual. Moreover the writer for this is in fact a women and a feminist at that, she wasn't offended and actually liked the song. So therefore becoming offended when all this hype and backlash came out over what was actually a catchy song to listen to in the car.

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.

Music video from the first openly gay country singer

One of the categories at this year's O Music Awards is "Too Much Ass For TV," which honors the backsides that infiltrated recent music videos from Robin Thicke, Frank Ocean, David Bowie, Sigur Ros and DIIV. Of course, the derrière has been the star of music videos for quite some time, dilating pupils since video killed the radio star.

This shows that even a place like TMZ is even going witht he trend of large asses.

This video reminds me of the Watson and Rialton article we read for Tuesday.  The black women are hypersexualized and animalistic, while the white women are looking down on the black women (like in the beginning of the song).  

I think a great line is "even white boys gotta shout" so it not just one group, but generalizes to all.

1. So, Pitbull and Flo Rida made a song together. And a video. It's called "Can't Believe It." 3. But this...this is something else. 6. Or, because the "boots with the furrr" song wasn't enough, could it be that Flo Rida has made yet another song pandering to white college girls? It literally all about butts, the video is full of quite interesting imagery

Katy Perry tweeted that her favorite song of the moment is Major Lazer's "Bubble Butt," She may very well have a fascination with butts, like that one costume that she had when she commenting about having a butt like Nikki Minaj

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

On her show, Wendy Williams discusses racial appropriation, and how Miley Cyrus and others, have "picked up" black culture in order to be cool and make money, and then have the privilege of putting black culture away and return to whiteness when they're older.

I chose to post this because it is a brilliant break up song from Lily Allen, it is blunt and to the point whilst still remaining fun. In my opinion this is the ultimate break up song and makes Break up songs by Taylor swift seem very immature.

I find it interesting that PETA is criticizing Perry for her use of animals, although she had done it safely, when they are free and willing to sexualize women as if it wasn't harming gender.

I have to disagree with you here I think this is terrible that Katy perry would agree to do this. The article is correct when it says animal acting is abusive, and stressful on any animal. I feel like Katy Perry put her fame and success over the welfare of animals because she is not only condoning animal acting she is promoting it as safe. Can you tell me more about how PETA are willing to sexualize women are you referring to the naked campaigns?

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'.

Music video for Bank's song and an article that discusses her distinct style and conflicting messages behind her music and video.

SNL skit that spoofs Beyonce's Single Ladies

I watched a video that someone else posted of the Pepsi commercial with Beyonce, Pink, and Britney Spears, and I thought it would be fun to post an older commercial that Britney did for comparison. I remembered that she did a variety of advertisements for them, but here's one of the first ones I found on Youtube.