Kanye West's Portrayal Of Women In The Music Industry
“The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.”, says singer/songwriter Tori Amos. Much like the world of advertisements and fashion, female performers are hypersexualized and objectified. The music industry, being run by mostly men (producers, directors, etc.) make it very unlikely for a woman to succeed based on their talent, but more so because of the way they express their sexuality and flaunt their looks.
The problem in the music industry is not that women aren’t successful, just look at the women at the top right now: Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, etc. The problem is the actual nature of the success, in other words, how many twerking/half-naked stunts they have to pull to get them to the top. Forty-five …show more content…
Comedian Seth Rogen and actor James Franco decided to make a parody of this in which Rogen was half naked, playing the part of Kim and Franco was playing Kanye. The parody was a hit, yet no one bothered to mention that the original video was only disturbing because Kanye uses his own wife as a sex doll in his music video.
One female popstar from the UK has made her point very clear that she will not take this sexualization and objectification any longer in the music industry. After four years of not releasing an album, Lily Allen just released her hit song “Hard Out Here (For a Bitch)” with a very explanatory video of what it is like to be a woman in the entertainment industry.
From the opening of the video, Lily Allen expresses the struggle, or the pressures to look a certain way as she lies on an operating table surrounded by surgeons performing liposuction, as well as her manager, who says out loud, “How does somebody let themselves get like this?” To which she replies: “Um, I had two babies,”
The video, features several women twerking around her (a stab at Miley Cyrus), while her manager comes over and “shows” her how to jiggle her assets while she
The problem in the music industry is not that women aren’t successful, just look at the women at the top right now: Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, etc. The problem is the actual nature of the success, in other words, how many twerking/half-naked stunts they have to pull to get them to the top. Forty-five …show more content…
Comedian Seth Rogen and actor James Franco decided to make a parody of this in which Rogen was half naked, playing the part of Kim and Franco was playing Kanye. The parody was a hit, yet no one bothered to mention that the original video was only disturbing because Kanye uses his own wife as a sex doll in his music video.
One female popstar from the UK has made her point very clear that she will not take this sexualization and objectification any longer in the music industry. After four years of not releasing an album, Lily Allen just released her hit song “Hard Out Here (For a Bitch)” with a very explanatory video of what it is like to be a woman in the entertainment industry.
From the opening of the video, Lily Allen expresses the struggle, or the pressures to look a certain way as she lies on an operating table surrounded by surgeons performing liposuction, as well as her manager, who says out loud, “How does somebody let themselves get like this?” To which she replies: “Um, I had two babies,”
The video, features several women twerking around her (a stab at Miley Cyrus), while her manager comes over and “shows” her how to jiggle her assets while she