Thursday, January 6, 2011

Lady Gaga and Kesha

I absolutely believe that Lady Gaga and Kesha are feminists. Do I respect what they say as something I would necessarily do? No, but they empower themselves and push the sexual social norms constantly, of our society. While Lady Gaga openly sings on national television and radio, "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick." To me, this seems to be a undersided remark on her sexuality. What seems to be so amazing to me is that years ago someone like Lady Gaga would have been stoned to death for saying such raucous things. Now, everywhere females are embracing the fact that they can get away with saying the same thing as a man. Kesha raps about "turn around boy, let me hit that." If a male rapper was to say the same thing in a rap song, we wouldn't think twice about it. How sad it is in our society that, that can happen. Its one thing to be disgusted with the language or innuendo its portraying, but its another if you only feel that way because a female "shouldn't be talking like that." If you take apart Lady Gaga and Kesha's videos, you can see how strong some of their feminist view are. They way they carry themselves, socially shock women and their attitudes, they all show strong feminist qualities.

1 comment:

  1. I definitely agree with the fact that the way Lady Gaga and Kesha carry themselves, and the way they dress or act is very shocking. Along with those things I feel some of their lyrics are kind of shocking. More recently in the media, involving music and television, words and phrases used would never be seen back when maybe our parents were children. It's crazy to think how much times have changed and that maybe if they were not allowed to use those lyrics we wouldn't have so many sexism or racism issues.

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