I have a little rant today.
It is me or is the world getting more prudish?
Miley Cyrus twerks on stage,
sticks her tongue out (ok far too much, I want to chop the damn thing off) and
all hell rains down on her. Her home
town say that satan has entered her life, the outraged parent brigade proclaim
that she is the worst influence on their child there has ever been and thinly
veiled “whore” insults fly everywhere.
She isn’t posing in a Hanna
Montana outfit holding up a sign saying “Do me” or “You know you want it”. She stuck her ass in the air, danced around
and wore not a lot of clothing. Woo
bloody hoo.
It’s a PUBLICITY STUNT, not the
rise of the apocalypse. It isn’t that
shocking and is just the newest controversy.
Madonna has been doing is for years.
She’s 21, or near as dammit. Leave the girl alone.
Today we have Lily Allen
releasing her song, "Hard Out Here"
I agree with her message that
woman shouldn’t have to change themselves, be thinner, prettier, more daring
etc etc to sell records. What I do think is that women shouldn't judge other women. Judge yourselves first.
What I want to
know though is how is this song any less controversial (if you actually think that
either song is controversial in the first place) than Miley’s twerking?
Lily doesn’t twerk, dance around
half clothed or stick her tongue out, but she is still using her song to hurl
insult at anyone who does. “I don’t need
to shake my ass because I have a brain” anyone?
No you don’t shake your ass Lily but you still court controversy. Her song “Fuck You” for example which was she
was quoted at different times saying was about the Conservatives and then later the BNP. Pick a side!
In my mind, you can’t look down
on someone for doing one thing, whilst doing something in a similar vein
yourself. “Lily Allen has a baggy pussy”
isn’t exactly making her look big or clever now is it? It is clearly a dig against the Robin Thicke
song (which by the way I can’t stand) and whilst I find it funny, that will by
seen (again by those who like to complain about these things) as just as
controversial.
I don’t give a monkeys what Miley
or Lily do. They are both in the end
doing what they set out to do, sell records.
You can judge them all you want, or you can actually listen the music,
decide if you like it and buy it, or not.
One thing that is really making
me giggle though. If the prude police
had a problem with a girl dancing with her ass in the air, how are they going
to cope with little Timmy and little Sarah asking what a baggy pussy is?
