Post by Serenity on May 16, 2012 19:22:29 GMT -5
Should Our Society Have Accepted People Like Nicky Minaj And Made Them Role Models?
Dominique Ukrainec
Have you ever taken the time to look at the lyrics of your favorite song? Compared two of the bands you like? Or maybe one you like and one you don't? The music accepted by society today is corrupting and hurtful. This can be clearly shown when using the popular singer Nicki Minaj as an example. Nicki has produced a number of songs that have been accepted by our society for reasons I have failed to see. I'm going to use her song Beez In The Trap, featuring 2 Chains, as my prime example. This song could say it all. The video is way too revealing for one, the song itself is very vulgar, and the whole thing portrays womanizing. Nicki has made a nightmare.
This video has shown so much skin, when I started watching it I was scared as to what I would end up seeing. Thankfully, nothing more than a bunch of girls with what looked like major wedgies. Obviously that's not what they were. What I did see, was many, girls, wearing nothing more than what could just barely pass as a bikini top, and shorts so short they could have been underwear. Nicki herself had various outfits. In a music video that is normal. But these, these were not normal. She had worn a full piece jumpsuit, which originally wouldn't be bad. But then she turned around, and showed us about half of her rear end. Nicki is accompanied by two girls in the first part of the video. One, you can see, is wearing a glittery black bikini top, that I could swear was just a bra, and the other is wearing a shirt that goes up to her neck with a big gap under it showing nothing but cleavage. Nicki herself, is also wearing a bikini top. As the time goes on throughout that part, the view moves out a bit, and you begin to see more of what it is the girls are wearing. It turns out, girl number two, is wearing a half shirt, that not only reveals her chest as was said, but also the whole torso area, which leads to the bikini bottoms I will assume she is wearing, because if that's not what they are, then they are underwear. I prefer the bikini bottoms. The bottom half is the same for all three girls, only varying in colours. But this stripper like attire is not the only thing that repels me from this video.
The vulgar. I could start in a million places with this one. Shall I say, that the whole first verse of this song carried three cussing words by itself. "B**ches ain't sh*t, and they ain't sayin nothin'. A hundred mothaf**k*rs can't tell me nothing. I beez in the trap." And she repeated said verse twice. Now this verse is used so much in the song, I just have to assume that this is the chorus. It was repeated at least eight times throughout this song. Doing the math there, if there are three cuss words per chorus and the chorus was said eight times...Than the three said words, were sung twenty-four times. May I remind you, that this is just the very repetitive chorus. Not the rest of the song, which is just as bad, if not worse. Very vulgar. Both of these added together create my final point. The way she portrays women!
Womanizing. This song is the perfect example for just that! The way all the woman are dressed, the way she speaks about other people with her lyrics. The song itself is so degrading! It's like we're a piece of meat, and you can do whatever you want with us. It's terrible. I know of discriminating of girls from guys, but for me this is a first of hearing and seeing such discrimination against girls. It's like she's trying to strip us of our dignity, while having her back up dancers simply strip. Honestly, this would be one of the main reasons I personally don't like her music. Most of it is so degrading. The clothes are constantly revealing, the words obviously based towards another girl, and the way the video was made. The girls were dancing like they were paid to, by the guys at the party. The clothes clinging to their bodies, ( or shall I say the scraps of cloth passed off as clothes.) It's so hurtful. It feels like she's personally going out of her way to hurt us. Anytime I see this video, I have to wonder if this is how she really sees woman, sees herself even. It's rather scary to be completely honest.
If you were to wrap up all this together, and watch this video yourself, you will see just how bad our society has become. Even though it's Nicki creating and singing this song, our society has accepted it, and her and made them both huge, causing this vulgar song to be known by any Nicki Minaj fan, and anyone who hears and sees it. How does this sound to you? Do you want your parents knowing you've watched something so vulgar? Your future kids even? Our society has become so corrupt it's possible you may not care. But I do. And being me, I find this isn't right. We shouldn't be allowing such terrible things to be shown so publicly. It's horrid, and so are we for letting it.
Works Cited
Nicki Minaj, Beez In The Trap, youtube.com.
Dominique Ukrainec
Have you ever taken the time to look at the lyrics of your favorite song? Compared two of the bands you like? Or maybe one you like and one you don't? The music accepted by society today is corrupting and hurtful. This can be clearly shown when using the popular singer Nicki Minaj as an example. Nicki has produced a number of songs that have been accepted by our society for reasons I have failed to see. I'm going to use her song Beez In The Trap, featuring 2 Chains, as my prime example. This song could say it all. The video is way too revealing for one, the song itself is very vulgar, and the whole thing portrays womanizing. Nicki has made a nightmare.
This video has shown so much skin, when I started watching it I was scared as to what I would end up seeing. Thankfully, nothing more than a bunch of girls with what looked like major wedgies. Obviously that's not what they were. What I did see, was many, girls, wearing nothing more than what could just barely pass as a bikini top, and shorts so short they could have been underwear. Nicki herself had various outfits. In a music video that is normal. But these, these were not normal. She had worn a full piece jumpsuit, which originally wouldn't be bad. But then she turned around, and showed us about half of her rear end. Nicki is accompanied by two girls in the first part of the video. One, you can see, is wearing a glittery black bikini top, that I could swear was just a bra, and the other is wearing a shirt that goes up to her neck with a big gap under it showing nothing but cleavage. Nicki herself, is also wearing a bikini top. As the time goes on throughout that part, the view moves out a bit, and you begin to see more of what it is the girls are wearing. It turns out, girl number two, is wearing a half shirt, that not only reveals her chest as was said, but also the whole torso area, which leads to the bikini bottoms I will assume she is wearing, because if that's not what they are, then they are underwear. I prefer the bikini bottoms. The bottom half is the same for all three girls, only varying in colours. But this stripper like attire is not the only thing that repels me from this video.
The vulgar. I could start in a million places with this one. Shall I say, that the whole first verse of this song carried three cussing words by itself. "B**ches ain't sh*t, and they ain't sayin nothin'. A hundred mothaf**k*rs can't tell me nothing. I beez in the trap." And she repeated said verse twice. Now this verse is used so much in the song, I just have to assume that this is the chorus. It was repeated at least eight times throughout this song. Doing the math there, if there are three cuss words per chorus and the chorus was said eight times...Than the three said words, were sung twenty-four times. May I remind you, that this is just the very repetitive chorus. Not the rest of the song, which is just as bad, if not worse. Very vulgar. Both of these added together create my final point. The way she portrays women!
Womanizing. This song is the perfect example for just that! The way all the woman are dressed, the way she speaks about other people with her lyrics. The song itself is so degrading! It's like we're a piece of meat, and you can do whatever you want with us. It's terrible. I know of discriminating of girls from guys, but for me this is a first of hearing and seeing such discrimination against girls. It's like she's trying to strip us of our dignity, while having her back up dancers simply strip. Honestly, this would be one of the main reasons I personally don't like her music. Most of it is so degrading. The clothes are constantly revealing, the words obviously based towards another girl, and the way the video was made. The girls were dancing like they were paid to, by the guys at the party. The clothes clinging to their bodies, ( or shall I say the scraps of cloth passed off as clothes.) It's so hurtful. It feels like she's personally going out of her way to hurt us. Anytime I see this video, I have to wonder if this is how she really sees woman, sees herself even. It's rather scary to be completely honest.
If you were to wrap up all this together, and watch this video yourself, you will see just how bad our society has become. Even though it's Nicki creating and singing this song, our society has accepted it, and her and made them both huge, causing this vulgar song to be known by any Nicki Minaj fan, and anyone who hears and sees it. How does this sound to you? Do you want your parents knowing you've watched something so vulgar? Your future kids even? Our society has become so corrupt it's possible you may not care. But I do. And being me, I find this isn't right. We shouldn't be allowing such terrible things to be shown so publicly. It's horrid, and so are we for letting it.
Works Cited
Nicki Minaj, Beez In The Trap, youtube.com.
