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Originally posted by T-Swizz
How can one's career be dependent on displaying your sexuality when the largest demographic that consumes her music are straight females? Not to mention her best selling songs are mainly ballads and feminist oriented anthems. |
Erm, female sexuality appeals to women too. Women's magazines, films and TV shows with primarily female audiences, and female pop stars since the 70s (whose audiences has always been primarily female) all feature beautiful women displaying their sexuality. It doesn't mean they're turned on by it, but they respond to it positively. There's an element of wish fulfillment and being able to fantasize you are that person. It's complex but it's definitely an essential element of women in the entertainment industry, whose audience is always, with almost no exceptions, mainly female (there are Spotify stats showing male users only listen to 3% women or something like that, it's shocking).
And her feminist-oriented anthems still feature her in flawless make up and hair, wearing sexy outfits, cavorting around with a super hot body. There's nothing wrong with this by the way, every female pop star does it. The ones that don't have to centre their entire careers around the fact that they're "not like the other girls" (P!nk, Avril).
Higher praise than deserved. 
