So, I'm supposed to be impressed by a chick made her name by co-opting the very genre/culture that she is 'satirizing'? Read more
eggnoggy
eggnoggy
I'm not saying they didn't mean it to be satire, I'm saying they didn't think that part as thoroughly and it shows.
I think that in order for satire to work, you have to push the ridiculousness of it. And having an oppressed group doing what it always does makes it seem exploitative instead of illuminating.
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Yes! I don't think zooming on POC's butts is satire. If she wanted to emphasize how awful objectification is, then she could have, I don't know, put her foot over one of her dancers looking powerful and then having the dancer look at her like "WTF are you doing?" and moving away, not zoom on POC's body parts again and… Read more
I don't see how yet another black woman's nearly naked ass jiggling around in yet another white woman's video is sarcasm. Read more
I kind of wish she had pushed it further. I don't think the satire goes far enough there, so it falls flat.
i get what lily allen was trying to do and the song is catchy, but parts of it just did not feel entirely right for this privileged white woman to be speaking for what is most often the fetishization and over-sexualization of women of color. Also, the song really simplified the issue (but maybe i should stop looking… Read more