Britney and Iggy: pushing feminism back twenty years
The reason we cannot have nice things is because Iggy Azalea will not leave the rap scene. Her new song, “Pretty Girls” with Britney Spears, continues to remind people there are far better rappers out there and Iggy should just go back to Australia.
The song starts out sounding exactly like Cher Lloyd’s “Want You Back,” then continues on to sound like something in a science fiction movie.
The song is typical Britney, however: no real singing, just autotuned talking and lyrics that completely go against the feminist movement.
“All around the world, pretty girls/Wipe the floor with all the boys/Pour the drinks, bring the noise/We’re just so pretty/All around the world, pretty girls/Jump the line, to the front/Do what we like, get what we want/We’re just so pretty!”
Seriously? This just brought the feminist movement back twenty years. How about instead of telling girls they should be focusing on being “pretty,” use your platform to remind girls to get an education, to remind girls not to allow men to walk all over them, and to work for everything that they could possibly want. “Pretty” will not last forever.
Iggy continues to be Iggy, dropping lyrics that make absolutely no sense and reminding people that her name is in fact Iggy, specifically stating it three times in the song, as if we could ever forget.
The beat and the annoying lyrics become repetitive and too easy to remember, which sadly, means that this song will be the summer anthem of 2015. The song, fortunately for us but unfortunately for Iggy, won’t live up to “Fancy”, her hit from last summer.
“While the maddening repetitiveness of the single can’t help but bore it’s way into your head, it does so in a rote way. It lacks the snap, and the freshness of ‘Fancy’,” wrote Jim Farber, Chief Music Critic for NY Daily News.
This song is Britney’s first single since 2013, and it is a shame that it does not live up to the old her. It is masked by autotune, Iggy, and more autotune. Although I wish to never hear it again, I am sure “Pretty Girls” will be everywhere this summer.
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