Blog #5 My Playlist

I chose the song S.E.X. by Lyfe Jennings because I think it sends out a message to women. In most of today's songs, they talk about girls being hos and putting it all out there and degrades women. In many rap songs as well as their videos, there are women in the video who are wearing barely anything. Women are the sex objects and it makes it seem like its ok to act like that and sleep with everyone. In S.E.X. it encourages women to not just sleep around. Think about it in depth before you sleep with someone. You do have a choice, regardless of what societal pressures are having on you. Mr. Mom was another really good song. It is about a guy who is doing what the sterotypical stay at home mom does. He thinks it is going to be a breeze and gets to stay at home doing nothing at all and sleeping in. Much to his suprise, he finds out it is really hard work. Prob even harder than working an actually paying job. If every man who thought that stay at home moms did nothing and should wait on them hand and foot cuz they have "worked" all day and is tired could experience what this Mr. mom did then I think alot of thinks would change in society, perhaps women would be respected more and be treated more equally with men. I'm still a guy makes it clear that despite what women think, he is still a guy. He is explaining that women see everything all cute and sweet, and fragile and he sees things down to the gore. Like a deer, he sees it as something he can kill and show off and a girl just sees it as Bambi. Well not all guys or girls see it that way. It does not matter your gender, we can see things the same way, it does not have to be seen differently because of our gender.
My music taste has changed quite a bit. I used to like the rap, hip hop, rock songs that mostly just degraded women, and hated the sappy country songs. I still like what i used to but look at it very differently and now lean towards listening to the sappy, "girly songs". I do not like songs that make men above women and women just something for them to use and put under the rug when they are done with them.