What did Capital's Summertime Ball to do Ariana Grande?
The pop princess took to Twitter the morning after the night before on a feminist rant about double standards in the media. While I applaud her sentiment, it feels like she's jumping on some sort of activist bandwagon in a bid to be as big as Taylor Swift.
As Ariana mentions, rap is full of misogynistic lyrics and it's ok for a man to sleep with women, while women are regarded as whores. No doubt, this is a reflection of the sexist stance in the media industry. I'm sure the music and press business is run by pervy old men who regard women as nothing but sex objects that are incapable of thinking for themselves.
Women have this issue wherever they work, but in the normal world we escalate it to HR and let the law do the rest. In the entertainment industry, there are no such luxuries and if you piss off said men, you risk losing your career. I assume this is why people in the BBC covered up for Savile.
The crux of her 'essay' (apart from reading like it's been written by a potty-mouthed 8 year old) is that I just can't relate to it. I don't want to be disrespected by anyone, so I don't date rappers. I don't want men in power to have ownership over me, so I don't work in the entertainment or sex industries. While these issues are very real, I haven't experienced them in this extreme because I'm not famous and I live in a progressive society. I talk about sex all the time and I've been known to objectify men - I don't feel I've been judged for it, if anything I get high-fives because of it from both men and women.
I don't really know what her beef is. Is she angry because the press keeps writing about her love life, because this isn't new? Is it because she just wants to be single and her people won't let her for publicity? Perhaps it's because all this feminist statement-making turned Swifty into an icon or creates lots of internet buzz or because she just a little girl trying to grow up in the public eye?
Also, if she doesn't like how she's treated in the media then she shouldn't succumb to stereotypes of girls in her position. She should make a stand instead of looking and sounding like every other female pop star or living her life through social media and PR. You don't see Debbie Harry, Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love or Kathleen Hannah being victimised by the press in the same way.
Your own individualism is the most precious gift life has given to you. No matter who you are with or what you do for a living, you shouldn't give yourself up for the sake of another person. And you shouldn't be qualified by a partner or defined by a job. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens when you become famous.
First published 08/06/2015
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) June 7, 2015
As Ariana mentions, rap is full of misogynistic lyrics and it's ok for a man to sleep with women, while women are regarded as whores. No doubt, this is a reflection of the sexist stance in the media industry. I'm sure the music and press business is run by pervy old men who regard women as nothing but sex objects that are incapable of thinking for themselves.
Women have this issue wherever they work, but in the normal world we escalate it to HR and let the law do the rest. In the entertainment industry, there are no such luxuries and if you piss off said men, you risk losing your career. I assume this is why people in the BBC covered up for Savile.
The crux of her 'essay' (apart from reading like it's been written by a potty-mouthed 8 year old) is that I just can't relate to it. I don't want to be disrespected by anyone, so I don't date rappers. I don't want men in power to have ownership over me, so I don't work in the entertainment or sex industries. While these issues are very real, I haven't experienced them in this extreme because I'm not famous and I live in a progressive society. I talk about sex all the time and I've been known to objectify men - I don't feel I've been judged for it, if anything I get high-fives because of it from both men and women.
I don't really know what her beef is. Is she angry because the press keeps writing about her love life, because this isn't new? Is it because she just wants to be single and her people won't let her for publicity? Perhaps it's because all this feminist statement-making turned Swifty into an icon or creates lots of internet buzz or because she just a little girl trying to grow up in the public eye?
Also, if she doesn't like how she's treated in the media then she shouldn't succumb to stereotypes of girls in her position. She should make a stand instead of looking and sounding like every other female pop star or living her life through social media and PR. You don't see Debbie Harry, Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love or Kathleen Hannah being victimised by the press in the same way.
Your own individualism is the most precious gift life has given to you. No matter who you are with or what you do for a living, you shouldn't give yourself up for the sake of another person. And you shouldn't be qualified by a partner or defined by a job. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens when you become famous.
First published 08/06/2015
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