THIS. this thread is the best. I'm sad it's not at the top (or part of the article), because I imagine many people (like me) watched it weren't sure what was satire and what was exploitation

Lily Allen doesn't usually have backup dancers at all! How are people missing the satire?

Thank you. I think people's offensiveness alert is on so high they are missing some pretty obvious satire. I thought it was just the right amount of sarcasm to make the dig at Miley work (which is what I took it as). If she had made it extra extra obvious that she was being sarcastic (one commenter suggested her…

No, no, Lily Allen hates WoC and is saying the back up dancers are dumb or something. Sigh.

Hey now. Jezebel is no place for nuanced arguments. How will I be able to tell if you're worse than Hitler if you're being reasonable??

I don't quite understand how people are missing this point.

I don't think that's what she's saying at all. I think the statement is about Lily, not about the dancers she has hired to shake their asses. It's one thing to hire dancers to shake it, and another thing to do it yourself when you want your job to be singer/songwriter. Shaking it when you want to be seen as a…

Oh, and again, I am a black girl, and I am used to seeing white women being used as the current standard of beauty. It is actually an interesting twist to see black girls used as the standard for beauty and mass appeal.

Pretty sure she's out there shaking her ass with them, and the point is satirical that she even has booty shaking backup dancers in the first place.

I don't think she's claiming to speak for them, but she's not excluding them either. I think she's acknowledging that the "black backing dancers" trope is a part of the whole sexualization-objectification pop mess.

No, you're not wrong at all. If she had used white backing dancers, it wouldn't have made any sense, because it's a thing to use black backing dancers. If you're making a parody you have to include recognizable elements of the thing that you're parodying.

I'd be extremely interested in what precise level of satire is allowed if black women are involved and/or dancing in a music video. Please elucidate Jezzies.

I really really like it

Good, good... the public grows weary of all these little, naked pop stars and redirects its attention to the entertainer we OUGHT to be seeing everywhere:

Make her be president please someone please yes thanks.

It seems like the solution to all of this is to not give your 6 year old your Apple password. Just a thought.

I can't stand women like that. MOST people settle. My husband looks nothing like the man I hoped would step off Olympus and propose to me. I am happy as a clam with the guy I married.

Oh girl, this is my sister, too. She was with The One, but acted terribly and now he's married to someone else and happy. She's still trying to recreate the sexual chemistry they had, still bitter, still extremely picky, still single at 40.

The video is about rape. You need a trigger warning for what, exactly? You thought it would be about rainbows and skittles?

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