The incredibly talented Jon Lajoie offers an incredible (and catchy) pop song to explain the ridiculous hypocrisy at work when Americans are outraged at Miley Cyrus’s sex-saturated VMA performance.
Lajoie sings, “We want topless women in our music videos, we want pop stars acting like they’re in a porno. You know we want it then we getting what we ask for. But when Miley does it we say, ‘Oh my God! No!'”
What do you think? Is America’s objection to Cyrus’ sexy performance hypocritical?
Thanks to Upworthy for sharing Jon Lajoie’s fantastic work.
“We want topless women in our music videos, we want pop stars acting like they’re in a porno. You know we want it then we getting what we ask for. But when Miley does it we say, ‘Oh my God! No!’” How many of those topless women and pop stars were former child stars with their own Disney (or other family friendly) shows? The reason people go about Miley but not Robin is because one used to be a Disney star with an image of “purity” while the other has been drenched in sexual material for the last decade or… Read more »
Perhaps Mylie is a student of history and wants to one-up Oona Chaplin, née O’Neil; a mid 20th century teenaged heart breaker who lives forever as a NYTimes Xword clue…
Zeroing in on JD Salinger this weekend I came across her tawdry story.
Maybe Lajoie could clarify who “we” are supposed to be. I didn’t object to Mileys VMA performance, because
1) I didn’t see it, and
2) It sounded like she was having fun being raunchy, two things I heartily approve of for anyone.
I found the bit to be quite humourous, looked to me like shit was having fun. But maybe I am desensitized to sexuality and just don’t get my pants in a bunch about it. Oh no, she twerked him, oh no she gyrated, OH NOOO she used a foam finger in a suggestive manner. I watched a movie the other day, saw someones head cut off, people blown apart, all kinds of horrific injuries….they get far less attention these days than sexualized acts on tv. Will this make younger people want to mimic her? Possibly if it looks fun, should… Read more »
Both men and women are objectified, for different reasons as a result of differing biological roles. While its true that women are objectified by men for sex/youth/beauty – men are also objectified by women – for relationships, power, status and money. IOW, Thicke is being objectified also – as an alpha male success object. There aren’t any short, balding, low-status, nice-guy beta males up there grinding with hot women, and the focus of female attention (and where their entertainment dollars are spent) centers primarily on the swaggering alpha male types – who are not required to follow the feminist “rules”… Read more »
Exactly. There is a constant complaining about how women are objectified and its considered okay while men don’t face such standards. Yeah let me know when a guy that looks like Danny Devito can pull off a performance like that and it not be a parody.
You have a point Danny.
On top of my other comments, I wanted to add that no one seems to care either that Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred lines” referes to women as “bitches” and talks about slipping them a drug while wanting to rip their asses in two. But this is all okay. However Miley dancing around is what is offensive. Not Robin or his lyrics. It’s so frustrating.
You are right on, Erin! If people have a problem with Miley’s bump-and-grind, which she may yet live to regret, they had better not watch MTV or any other music or video outlets using simulated sex to sell CD’s!
No one seems to care, except a shitload of feminist sites and other sites.
Here’s a start
ht tp://www.mamamia.com.au/social/robin-thicke-blurred-lines-post/
ht tp://www.xojane.com/entertainment/should-we-be-concerned-about-robin-thickes-kind-of-rapey-single-blurred-lines
I believe you’ve hit on the correct collective noun for feminist sites, Archy.
I think the song is amazingly spot on. I wasn’t a fan of her performance but I’m am sick and tired of all these young women being put on the choping block for giving the world exactly what it wants. Which is yes, naked women and women acting like pornstars. People don’t want to see women unless they are nearly naked, young, sexy and acting like strippers and pornstars. Reading the fall out from her performance, I’ve seen her critcisized from everything to her performance to her actual body. I’ve seen comments making fun of her butt or breasts and… Read more »
No one called him names? Where have you been for the last few months?!?! He has OOODLES of people calling him a creep, saying he has “rapey” lyrics, calling him a misogynist and a bunch of other slurs. How is that perfectly ok when he’s one of the most criticized singers in recent history I’ve seen?
Seriously, google “blurred lines” and look and how many pieces tear him down.
Perhaps it’s a reflection of how far I’ve fallen out of the gossip loop (Yay!) that the only news reports I’d been paying attention didn’t seem to involve celebrities at all; so I only start hearing about this when people start commenting that they don’t want to hear about Miley Cyrus, and aren’t there more important things going on like a imminent war in Syria or nuclear reactors leaking in Japan? Okay, I won’t be pompous and pretend that I’m so high-brow and the rest of the world is shallow; I also got excited that a Batman Superman cross-over movie… Read more »
The problem is that she’s not far enough removed from Hannah Montana. If she waited 5 more years and her career was mediocre, we’d be expecting it. Heck, she could appear in Playboy like Debbie Gibson and people wouldn’t bat an eye.
I feel the fuss is over the heightened vulgarity of some of her dancing moves, the blatant fingering and the fucking and the glorious tonguing. It knocked some socks off to be sure. On a different level than “touched like a virgin for the very first time”. I don’t know what others saw, but I loved the performance.
Who is Robin Thicke again?