In the music industry is where you see women being exploited the most. The saying, "beauty is more than just skin deep," isn't a known fact in the music industry. This is because if you've ever listened to a popular rap song all they talk about are women's body parts. It's as if our society only is able to think about sex 24/7. For example, the popular song at the moment is "Ass" by Big Sean. The chorus of that song literally is just the word ass in repetition which points out that our culture clearly only is able to think of one think which is a woman's back area.
The worst part about music videos is that you will rarely ever see what society considers "heavy" in them. The only type of girl you will see is a half naked woman most likely begging for the man and doing all sorts of sexual dances that are beyond bizarre. I realized this after viewing a website that listed the "Top 10 Sexiest Music Videos." These videos made me so uncomfortable as if I was watching porn except less explicit.
The fact that male singers are not the only people to be exploiting women in their videos is mind boggling to me. For example, the song "I'm A Slave 4 U" by Britney Spears talks all about how Britney is willing to do anything for a man. One of the lines in the song itself is "I really wanna do whatcha wanna do" which there proves that she has no respect for herself. Also in the video below you can tell just by all of the remarks and sexual innuendos that Britney is playing into the media. Mind you this video was published in 2001, this shows that these ideal figures and sexual minds that society has going on has been occurring for over a decade now. The worst part about it is that a lot of people want women to be equal to men but if we have women, such as Britney, playing into this role that women aren't equal to men then there will be no change in society as a whole.
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