Luckily I had to go out to the Thorndon Fair this morning, or this post would have been a lot more vitriolic.
The number one song on the New Zealand charts this week is "My Lumps" by the Black Eyed Peas.
Lee and I watched the video with the kind of mortified fascination with which you would watch a car crash. I came to the conclusion that this song embodies everything that is wrong with the music industry today.
The song (the lyrics are available via the link above) has this basic, essential message: women use sex to get men to buy them things. Of course, they don't use those nice words to say that, oh no. It's all about the junk in the girl's trunk (ass) and her (and this is my favourite) Lovely Lady Lumps which she uses to drive men crazy and then they buy her bling.
So what's the basic premise here? All women are whores! That's right kids, people who sell their bodies/love/affections for money or good are prostitutes.
If I ever had any respect for the Black Eyed Peas (which seems unlikely) it is all gone. This song objectifies both men and women and somehow made it to number one? I can't understand the women who will sing this sort of crap. I thought The Milk Shake song was bad but that was before this morning.
Here's a taste of the lyrics at the end, so you can savour the true horror. It's even worse with the video...
"What you gon’ do wit all that breast?
All that breast inside that shirt?
I’ma make, make, make, make you work
Make you work, work, make you work."
I am truly disgusted. I hate this song a lot. End of rant.
Oh and stonesoup comments are down so I'll post all this into my livejournal and you can comment there, k?
Posted by jenni at December 4, 2005 06:16 PM