The Music Industry Are Upholding The Ideal Body Image For Women

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“I got a a$$ so big like the sun”(Look Back At It),this is one of Trina 's dirtiest lyrics. Rihanna in her song even say , “suck my cockiness, lick my persuasion”(Cockiness). Lyrics like this are common in songs by many black women in the music industry such as Lil Kim, Janet Jackson, Salt N Pepa , Ciara, and the list goes on and on. These lyrics send the message that women songs should contain vulgar language and that women should want to look like the artist that performing these lyrics. Just like The Commodores say, “ She`s a brick house. . That lady 's stacked and that 's a fact”. (Brickhouse) Generations are growing up with this perception that body parts are a commodity. Girls aren 't born hating their body , we teach it to them through the music and other forms of popular culture. Black women in the music industry are upholding the ideal body image for women more than promoting the a positive body image to those who looks up to them. The image of women body has become an outrage. Women are obsessed with waist trainers,plastic surgeries, and cosmetics. African american women that are in the music industry, are really influential in today 's society. Woman like Nicki Minaj is praised for having slim hips and a fake big butt, but she was not born with these assets.The features that she is known best for, was done during plastic surgeries before becoming the infamous “Nicki Minaj”. Once before Nicki has spoken about the racist double standard that black women face. In an interview with Marie Claire, she quoted,”When Kim Kardashian 's naked picture came out, [Sharon Osbourne] praised it, and my fans attacked her for being such a hypocrite," at the time, Osbourne tweeted out her own nude selfie, writing that she was "inspired... ... middle of paper ... ...o the public. If Lil Kim would get on stage with her color wigs and two piece set on, the crowd is screaming and asking for more. How many of the female black artist are the modern day Sarah Baartman? Nicki Minaj is one of them. According to this website, forharriet.com, “Nicki Minaj is the Sarah Baartman of the millennial generation.”(www.forharriet.com) The difference from then and now is that these women are willingly exposing theirself and she was forced. Something that once was so freakish, is now entertainment, a form of self empowerment and an expression for sexual freedom. History does repeats itself. Yet in the modern day black women are making a mockery out of what Sarah baartman went through. “Baartman was an icon for racial and sexist exploitation.” (www.blackthen.com) These woman are not and it is sad that this is being taught to the upcoming generation.

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