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Originally posted by qurl
I also really don't see issue with the lyrics. I get the perspective that it's '**** shaming', but the entire pretense of the song rests on her words of 'do better'. which should, in fact, empower women into actually doing better instead of falling into the same tired thirst trap that promotes the negative stereotypes she's attacking.
and she's not lying either, she's just cognizant of the fact that social media is slowly turning (rather allowing) this generation into being 'do it for the Vine!' minded idiots who spend their last $20 on a vodka shot at the club. People don't need to hear songs like 'Time of Our Lives' (if for no other reason than it being Pitbull / NeYo ), they need to hear and take in THIS ****.
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Wait, did anyone bring up any issues?
I have actually really thought about the lyrics and I can see how people would find them "**** shame-y" but overall it's about being immature, having ****ed up priorities and being a part of the problem in the gender binary. Also, the part where she goes in on MEN kind of trumps ALL of the rest of the song
The parts that make me most uncomfortable are where she says "these ****** is now bitches, quit acting so feminine" - that just seems kind of unnecessary and harmful/backwards to me. I do think that it's targeted at the kinds of men that are hypermasculine and put a bunch of emphasis on being masculine, though, so in the end it's really just kind of FINE. And no one in the Urban community is going to care about these things, anyways