I would love for there to be a day, really, really soon when the booty-shaking back-up dancer goes bye-bye for good.

Seconded. Jezebel readership is so diverse, and nobody ever really acknowledges that. We're all coming at this from our own experience, right? It's the best any of us can do. It would be nice if we didn't have to attack one another in the process. I see a lot of us vs. them rhetoric through this comment thread, and…

that would be true if thats what she was even doing. If Lily Allen was making a commentary about how WOC are objectified more often than white women in music videos than it would have been better. But she said herself that "it wasn't about race at all" which left everyone all like whaaa? because that just leaves us…

"So what's the alternative?"

Oh, okay. Thanks for speaking for all of us Negresses. Good lookin' out.

What "points?" Your perspective is completely fucked. If you spent any time listening to people of color and actually according their testimony the same value you'd give some fuckwit white guy in a business suit, you might understand that.

Is there? I'm not seeing a whole lot of indie girl groups out there and I know they exist and I know they are good. It seems that the options for female vocalists are:

If your satire is missing the point, it means it's not very good satire.

i agree that it was brave of her to do this and i agree that misogyny is every woman's story to tell, but so often the story of feminism is the story of white women, so while misogyny is every woman's story to tell, we need to recognize that not all of those stories are the same.

That explanation might have been plausible until her whole "it's not about race" thing. Too bad.

There is one white girl who gets her ass motioned at with money. There are several instances throughout the video of black girls getting their asses smacked, having champagne poured over their ass and breasts, and fellating champagne bottles. And in one of the scenes Lily herself smacks a black woman's ass and…

As a WOC i am wary of claiming feminism when i see idiots like you.

Were the women in Alan Thicke's video begin objectified if they were in on the alleged satirical joke as stated by the director?
Lily misses the mark by simply making a point to visually, lyrically and sarcastically mock every aspect of her video EXCEPT when it came to the Black female dancers. She doesn't acknowledge…

It is not "American culture" it is world culture, many Brits have pointed out how racist this video is because guess what when it comes to the way we view and treat black people in Britain it is not that different from America.

"If you have to explain it, your satire has missed the mark." YEP. This. Entirely.

um, did you see the video? it's excessive ... they are doing far more than dancing

The problem, IMO, is that in the video it is not clear whether they are partaking in the satire, or if they are the butt of the joke. Turns out, neither did the Lily.

I think it's how she's treating her dancers, really.

This. The "It was a JOKE/you're racist for thinking my joke was racist" defense is getting so old.

Yup.