Mu(sick) - Madiha Bhatti calls out the misogyny that is so common in lyrics

[redqueen]

[seaglass]

1. This woman is extremely talented.

http://uncsiren.com/musick/

link to original and the first verse:

Mu(Sick) Lyrics:
by Madiha Bhatti

So I heard this song the other day
That objectified women in every way
That doesn’t narrow it down much
But it was pretty depraved
The feminists are probably still rolling in their graves
It reduced people to parts, objects to be acquired
Turned hearts and minds into mere things to be desired
And as parts of my body were assessed and sized
I thought,”What a way to be dehumanized,”
These artists seem to be playing a game
Of how many times they call us the wrong name
Cuz I’m not a dime, those come a dozen
No I’m really not interested in all your lovin
I’m not your shawty, hoe, or trick
Your baby, lady, girl or chick
I mean can someone explain to me
How this counts as music? When you
Chant, you pant about windows and walls
Talk about a woman like she’s a thing to be mauled
Oh she got a big booty so you call her Big Booty,
If she had a big brain would you call her at all?
But it seems like I’m the only one appalled
That music can make me feel so small

[redqueen]

2. Thanks for the lyrics. It is so great to see more and more people calling out objectification

and misogyny.

[Cleita]

3. These posts are racist.

They are calling out African American artists and blaming them for sexism. Our only music culture comes from African Americans all the way from the ante-bellum south, through the jazz age, the blues age and now the rap they express their life experience with. You should be ashamed of yourself for this.

[JI7]

4. robin thicke is african american ?

[Cleita]

8. Robin Thicke is a genre or Vanilla Ice for that matter?

[ErikJ]

5. Snoop Lion saw the light

I saw him interviewed on TV recently saying he became disgusted by all the violence in rap, killing his bros and sisters. So he went to Jamaica and converted to Rasta and reggae.

And you forgot Soul ........ like "Respect Yourself" by the Staple Singers.

[redqueen]

7. No, they aren't blaming them for sexism.

She is saying that the the rampant misogyny in hip hop and rap, arguably the most popular genres of music today, is not helping.

[Cleita]

11. Country and Western is equally popular and often misogynistic in lyrics

but I haven't seen equal outrage like from Bill O'Reilly blaming rap lyrics for causing sexist behavior in "those kids" instead of reflecting the culture of sexism that is already there from across the nation including Bill O'Reilly.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/11/14/is-gangsta-rap-hurting-america-children/

Here's some examples of the top ten sexist lyrics in C&W

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2013/12/the_top_10_misogynistic_songs.php

Instead you put up a put down of rap from a woman half way across the world wearing a symbol of female suppression on her head of a genre that originated with African American street kids. I find it very racist.

[tkmorris]

10. No they aren't

[smirkymonkey]

6. K&R!

[sufrommich]

9. Malala Yousafzai is also speaking out:

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women. It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

Most of the time they do not even make sense. And the thing is that most of the female artists seem to have accepted all this. But they have a role to play.

– malala yousufzai


http://www.itv.com/news/2014-08-24/malala-wests-music-treats-women-as-objects/