Unacceptable Songs of this Decade

Music has such a huge influence on the world today, whether that be the new generations or the older generations. However, in the past decade, there have been more and more songs put out that objectify women. Somehow, they always make it to the top of the charts too. I think one of the worst of these is the song Blurred Lines by by Robin Thicke. Practically every single lyric in the song is disrespecting women. He refers to the woman as “an animal” and tells her to let him “liberate her”. Another one that you wouldn’t necessarily expect is the song Hotline Bling by Drake. In this song, he is basically slut shaming the girl for going out more when he left. He says “you got a reputation for yourself now, you started wearing less and going out more…hanging with some girls I’ve never seen before”. Why can’t she go out more? Why does that have to make her seem less desirable? For a man that’s going through a breakup, it would be expected and encouraged for him to go out and get with a ton of different girls. However, if a girl does that, she’s immediately slut shamed. It’s a serious double standard!! Another popular song that degrades women is the song Timber by Pitbull. Similar to Hotline Bling, he says he has “em like Miley Cyrus clothes off, twerking in their bras and thongs, face down booty up” and “she say she won’t but I bet she will”. Excuse me but what makes it acceptable for a guy to assume she “wants it” when she says that she doesn’t? That’s totally unacceptable. We need to change the way we talk to our kids about the sexualization of women because if we don’t, they learn that things like this are okay. Like we talked about in class the other day, a man isn’t made to think like this. It’s society teaching them that it’s okay.