Sunday 11 December 2011

Sexy and I don't get it



I know you may have heard of this musical artist known as LMFAO by now, and if you did not then consider yourself extremely lucky.

LMFAO is one of those artists that I do not get why they have the popularity that they do. They make catchy techno beats but yet Daft Punk and The Prodigy make really catchy techno beats but they are no where near as popular. Maybe because the music industry does not overly promote Daft Punk and The Prodigy but that's besides my point.

This blog post will mainly be talking about their most popular song "Sexy and I know it." My god this song is just awkward, and the music video does not show too much sexism against women, altough there is some, but this song mainly shows sexism towards males because almost every 20 seconds there is some guy stripping down to their underwear, in fact that's the first thing that happens in the begining of the music video. One guy starts to move his penis up and down. I said before that there is some sexism towards women in this music video, there are some women who are wearing partially revealing clothing.
Just to drive home my point that this song and music video has sexism in it. The main singer kept on saying, "Just look at that body." Obviously implies that there is sexism in this song. There is a lot of erotic dances that are being showen in the music video while the parts whe the singer says, "Just look at my body." The lyrics make no sense but at the sametime the name of this musical artist is named LMFAO that implies that they are not trying to make serious thought-provoking music. There is a limit to how much you can do to make a good party song. A party song does not need lots of sexism to be fun to dance to, it just does not. Sexism does not need to be a common cliche for songs like this.

I get what this song tries to do in a sense that it tries to make you act the way you are, but this song shows this message in a wrong way. This song pretty much encourages teenagers to act like a bunch of stubborn individuals that don't care about what anyone says.

I say it encourages teenagers is because that's exactly who this song appeals to. From the constant sexual exploits with the lyrics of the song and the amount of sexual content in the music video with guys moving their penises up and down, this song and video tells teens it is okay to ignore everyone and act like a wild party animal.

Here is the song that is just plain werid:

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