Music/ Blog 5

Morgan Bilodeau

February 24, 2015

       Music

            In class this week we talked about women in music and how they are shown in music videos. Some music videos show women in extremely sexual ways. For example some videos shown in class were “Girls, Girls, Girls” by the Motley Crue and “Tip Drill” by Nelly. “Girls, Girls, Girls” is from 1987. It’s a song about strip clubs and girls that work in them. The video is showing girls in strip clubs stripping while men are watching them. The girls have lingerie on but there isn’t really full nudity in this music video. The next song we talked about in class was “Tip Drill” by Nelly. This video was released in 2003. It shows women in skimpy bathing suits at a mansion. Some of the girls were even naked in a bathtub. One girl lifted up her bathing suit bottoms and exposed her vaginal area to the world. Women have always been portrayed in music videos in sexual ways but as you can see by these music videos that every year they get more explicit. From 1987 to 2003 music videos just keep getting worse and still are today. To me this is disgusting. The fact that a woman is exposing herself in a music video is absolutely repulsive. When I saw this I immediately thought that she must not have much respect for herself. It’s so sad to be in world where women show themselves in such a provocative manor and think nothing of it. Music videos these days have gone way to far in my opinion by showing too much of the sexuality of women. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a music video of a man naked from the bottom down. So why does this make women think its ok to do this and why does it make men think its ok to put this in their music? Also why do men think they can write such provocative songs about women and get away with it?