We've made our feelings on misogyny in music '09 made very plain here, here and here but if you still wanted more, look no further than Pitbull's new existential masterpiece "Hotel Room Service". Popjustice did a brilliant thing a while back about JUST why Pitbull is an idiot (in short: he's a sexist cunt who includes an 'ODE TO WOMAN' on his magnificent opus) but we really suggest you get the full brunt of his idiocy above.
It's so easy to be completely desensitised to sexism in music. We're so used to seeing vacuously gyrating women thrusting their front and back bottoms at the camera just to prove that the man making the music a) isn't a poofter b) is a big ol' stud worthy of musical investment that we just ignore it, or tell anyone who complains that it's "political correctness gone mad". But it isn't. There's a very clear distinction between this, where women are wide-eyed props used cynically to turn a buck, and artists like Madonna, Lady GaGa, or even Björk who have used female nudity and sexuality to make distinct, ironic and sincere points.
Please don't get us wrong, we are not opposed to women being sexy, naked, sexually empowered or even (in the case of artists like Peaches) completely preoccupied with coitus... but in the cases we admire, the sex is being used by female artists with distinct and indisputable talents who have made their own choices, not a male 'artist' or record label employee who has decided that a pair of tits and a bit of a camel toe will equal dosh. Unfortunately Pitbull is charting well.
It's so easy to be completely desensitised to sexism in music. We're so used to seeing vacuously gyrating women thrusting their front and back bottoms at the camera just to prove that the man making the music a) isn't a poofter b) is a big ol' stud worthy of musical investment that we just ignore it, or tell anyone who complains that it's "political correctness gone mad". But it isn't. There's a very clear distinction between this, where women are wide-eyed props used cynically to turn a buck, and artists like Madonna, Lady GaGa, or even Björk who have used female nudity and sexuality to make distinct, ironic and sincere points.
Please don't get us wrong, we are not opposed to women being sexy, naked, sexually empowered or even (in the case of artists like Peaches) completely preoccupied with coitus... but in the cases we admire, the sex is being used by female artists with distinct and indisputable talents who have made their own choices, not a male 'artist' or record label employee who has decided that a pair of tits and a bit of a camel toe will equal dosh. Unfortunately Pitbull is charting well.
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