First of all, I must recognize I have neither listened to that Meghan Trainor’s song nor seen this video before having to do this writing.
Nevertheless, now that I have watched it, I must say that although it seems to be a feminist anthem against the tremendous discrimination happening nowadays in our society towards overweight people (specifically for women), it in fact fails on its purpose when the singer uses some inappropriate expressions such as “skinny bitches” or “silicone Barbie doll”, which actually involve another kind of discrimination against thinner women. Moreover, these words are pronounced in the video at the same time that a black female dancer plays this trendy, sexually and provocative manner of dancing known as ‘twerking’, which other singers such as Miley Cyrus or Nicki Minaj frequently use in their videos or concerts as an easy way for selling more discs.
Finally, this coarse language can also be found in the different parts of ‘All About That Bass’ in which it is pointed out the preference of boys for those girls having voluptuous bottoms, which has remind me of a 90’s song released by the rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot called ‘Baby Got Back’ (recently sampled by Nicki Minaj in her video ‘Anaconda’, an impressive ode to the twerking culture), where the singer literally says “I like big butts and I cannot lie. I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy / 'Cause silicone parts are made for toys. So Cosmo says you're fat / Well I ain't down with that!”. At least, Sir Mix-a-Lot did not try to hide his rude and offensive message behind a treacly song pretending to claim for the non-discrimination against chubby women.
At first sight (or view), not only does the video seem to be colourful attractive, but the song is also quite catchy. Beyond that, the aim of the song is totally different. Nowadays we are getting used to be extremely worried about our size, which drives us really crazy sometimes. Therefore, the song is meant to be a criticism of our mad situation about not putting on weight and worrying about our image. The song approaches the topic from different factors which might well be responsible for getting this situation. In the first place, it states how easily influenced we are, magazines full of touched up model’s photos and those sorts of artificial things we get used to dying for. Secondly, the importance it takes in our childhood, such as the selling and advertised dolls like barbie and ken. The more kids play with dolls, the more they tend to idealize their life and bodies in a similar way. Therefore, in doing so, the song points out how superficial and vain our life style could become. Last but not least, our parents’ education is deeply remarkable in our childhood. The lyrics state that “Her mother used to tell her not to worry about her size”. The lack of awareness of problematic situations such as anorexia and bulimia is an enormous concern that parents must worry about. All in all, not only is the song quite catchy and vivid (in a commercial way), but also has a crucial message to take into consideration.
It seems to be that the ideal size for women is 36... As a PE teacher my pupils´ bodies are the prevailing topic that I use in my lessons.... and taking into account that my students are teenagers, thier bodies (and the image and opinion that they have about them) is not only a topic, but also a significant concern. Nowadays the mass media provides us with an extremely distorted image of how our bodies must be in order to be “the perfect woman/man” and most of us do not fit in those kinds of “sculptural” Venus or Adonis. Sometimes this situatiton can be disturbing when we are talking about young people, mainly teenagers, whose personalities are not matured enough to get ride of all of these unhealthy corporal images that their idols usually show and promote. As a result, we are suffering an alarming increase of many psychosomatic illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia (girls) or vigorexy (boys) in all of which the similar feature is the wrong image that the patients have about their own bodies. In conclusion, we are living in a body (un)worship society in which songs like the one that we must to write about are a way to rebel ourselves against the “perfect” (and definitely unhealthy) figure that it tries to drum into our heads.... because size 42 worths it!
This video clip is very catchy, rhythmic and vivid. It shows dancers "twerking" and showing their bodies off unabashedly as a criticism of certain stereotypes in our society. By getting to the point, the clip voices criticism of beauty standards nowadays. It somewhat stands up for chubby women by giving reasons as they can do anything just like other slim girls and, what’s more, even providing advantages of being dumpy. It is a good message for teenagers not to let themselves be fooled by subliminal images embedded in toys, ads, magazines, etc. On the contrary, in the attempt to fight against this standard, it might be defending another stereotype which is not appropriated at all – obesity—. As everybody knows obesity brings serious health problems with it. Summing up, the extremes meet. Anorexia or bulimiaas well as obesity are eating disorders, some to get fit as alleged “perfect bodies”, and others for neglecting what they eat. The best decision: be yourself and eat healthy.
After seeing this video clip I have to recognise that I have not stopped of humming it. Not only is the song pretty catchy, but it also transmits a positive power. Over time we are more worried about our size and personally speaking I think TV is by far the most common cause of this problem. Children, teenagers even adults desire to look like their idols and they are normally a size 34-36. Anyway, although this song can seem to be a critique of slim people, she's not bashing thin people. There is literally a part where she says "just kidding, I know you think you're fat" referring to some really thin people. So basically this song is about anyone who thinks they're fat. Like even if they're thin and they think they're fat. And she transmits a good message for them, such as “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top” To sum up, songs are a good way to help people who really have this problem.
To begin with, although the style of the music is not my favourite, I have to admit that the song is quite rhythmic and the catchy chorus remains stuck in your head for hours after listening to it. The video shows different dancers doing exaggerated moves, some of them I found hilarious. We could say that these dancers do not fit in the standard stereotypes shown in TV and movies, what is done on purpose, given that the lyrics of the song are clearly criticising those kind of standards. In the video, we can also watch how two young girls dance the song and how a very thin woman is "defeated" by the other dancers. I would say that the video is a parody of rap and reggaeton videos, where the main male singer usually appears surrounded of girls doing sexually-oriented moves. The song criticises the image of girls sold in media (TV, magazines...), where skinny girls are found to be the norm, instead of the exception. This message is of crucial importance for young girls (and that is the reason why I think they are shown in the video), because it can harm the confidence about themselves and result in unfortunately everyday more common eating disorders (anorexia or bulimia). I agree with this part of the message, because it can help to improve and boost people self-esteem independently of their weight or size. What I do not like is that the song is promoting, at the same time, a view of women as objects, whose main purpose is to find a boy who likes them ("Boys like a little more booty to hold at night."). The hard comments about thin girls ("silicone Barbie doll" or "skinny bitches") still give too much importance to the image, finally favouring part of what was originally criticised. In contrast, my opinion is that the message should be to avoid the importance our society gives to our external image, either in one direction or the other.
First of all I have to confess I do not understand completely the song. In particular I do not understand the expression "I am all about that bass". But anyway I agree with the message and the content. I think nowdays society is too much worried about image. And does not give importance to other values that are the really important ones. I think we all would be much happier if we were able to think and act as the song says.
Much have been said about body image and attitudes towards physique and specific body parts. It is said that we modify our ideas of our own body according to our emotional state as well as the reactions of others in the environment. However, this conception may or may not correlate with the authentic reality. In fact, people in general and teenagers in particular, tend to ignore other abilities and focus on appearance with consequent lowered self-esteem and increased risk for eating disorders.
But how to feel comfortable in your own skin? Being confident is the key . Clearly, this is the message that the song tries to send us as well as the importance to remind yourself that beauty is never dependent upon the approval of others. Quite the contrary, the power to be beautiful comes from within you. You are the only person who can do this.
At first sight and looking only at outward appearance, it song seems a funny, innocent and sweet melody where dancers break with the typical stereotype.. But nothing far away from the reality. The message of the song is a criticism to the nowadays stablished beauty standars in which all the women and, why not, men must be like "Barbie and Ken". As we know, this sub-culture can develop some psychological and nourishing disorders that affect seriously to children, teenagers and even adults. It must be difficult for young people who are not well-formed yet do not neglect by the media preassure and the unending shelling of images. At this point is where parents and teachers have to be alert and to guide them showing the real values in life and learning to be self-confident.
To begin with I must say that no sooner had I seen this video-clip that I thought It would be weird and extravagant too. However, I must admit that once I started watching it I got hooked at it because of its rhythm, powerful colours and very catchy song that made me want to tap my feet.
Besides I didn't understand quite well it's incomprehensible lyrics at once , I could understand what it was about. I believe that society play a role on standars of beauty in both women and men. Moreover, we are taught since we are children that the perfect women are the ones we see on the catwalk.
In contrast, It is known that most doctors are warning about the risks of extremely skinny people and the method they use in order to grow skinny.
Finally what I completely disagree with is the way they treat skinny women and how they have been ridiculed in this video clip in order to justify their appearance
I think this is a good video to realize how important is your self-image. Nowadays, we are supposed to be fit, young and good-looking. This is the reason because gyms are crowed and plastic surgeons are richer today. We are living in a world where image is very important but we must be strong to avoid this pressure. This is the message that we get in this catchy song.
The song is a criticism to the concept of beauty in modern society, which is typically associated to thinness, and claims body curves as a real sign of attractiveness. This concept started to establish in the second half of the 20th century, with the rise of the modern media, specially TV and magazines, where women appearances are mainly limited to slim figures from celebrities, actresses and even singers. However, it has not been considered as a widespread problem and an object of study until the last decades.
Although the song addresses the problem in a funny way, because of the rhythm and colors, it is, in fact, a quite serious issue which is responsible of several diseases. The continuos barrage of beauty ideals related to thinness can produce mental disorders to those women who do not accomplish the imposed standard, being the teenagers specially vulnerable. Anorexia and bulimia are just some well-known examples of derived diseases but not the only ones. Another common consecuences which are less noticiable but still important are depression or marginalization.
Finally, it must be noticed that, although this problem has been traditionally associated to women, in the last years men has also started to be affected, appearing new mental disorders such as vigorexia.
After listening to this song I would like to remark several issues. First of all, the content: I think it’s clairly focus on one idea, related to marketing, by which we have been told by the media for decades: thickness as a superior status, as an easier way to socialize. Secondly, it could be interesting covering the vocabulary used in the lyrics, related to sound, to waves that, moving in a certain frecuency, can be perceived by humans as sounds, in this case: as music. Bass would symbolize low sounds (like the ones played by bass guitars) and treble the highest sounds in a chorus, that is to say, the corresponding part to a voice called “soprano” in the context of a vocal score. As waves, low sounds are larger and slower, what I understand as a metaphore to show fatness, while high sounds are shorter and faster, which would stand for thinness.
First of all, I must confess that, although I love music, I had not heard this song previously and I've found, after searching for it in Internet, that it is a huge smash hit all over the world.
The aesthetic of the video (because of the use of a wide variety of colors) reminds me of another song from the nineties called "Barbie Girl" which, curiously, was chosen by The Rolling Stone magazine as the worst song of the nineties.
Musically, the song does not transmit/convey me much but, to be honest, I must admit that has a catchy engaging rhythm.
As my colleagues uttered (I don´t want to beat around the bass), the main topic of the song is the critique of the culture of the body that rules our society and makes us see as normal things that are not such as 1´80 centimetres tall girls who weight 50 kilograms.
In my opinion, extreme thinness is a problems often associated with a lack of appreciation of ourselves because everybody (mostly teenagers) is eager for being accepted in his/her social circles.
Having in mind than thinness is an important problem, we can NOT neglect our body because obesity is nowadays, by far and curiously, one of the big problems in welfare societies (according to latest polls six out of ten children in Spain are obese).
As the Latins said more than two thousand years ago, `in medio virtus´
First of all, I must say, I listened the song three times and, only then did I realize the message. Also, I neither knew the song nor the singer. Secondly, in the video appears such as lead role a plump, pale skin and blonde singer and, four singers; the choir, two of which, not only are they curvy and provocative but are mulatto as well, on second thoughts, I would say blank. On the other hand, we can see a fat and mulatto man with a really big stomach fat. However, in spite of being rather overweight, he looks as if he is quite nimble and with stamina, dancing unabashedly and coordinated with the music. Finally, we watch a bit of skinny woman who is ridiculed. The video is set in two striking and colorful areas, a room and a dining room which have extravagant furniture and decoration do not go unnoticed at the video and I would go so far as to say that it is a bit tacky and over-the-top. Thirdly, not only is the song quite catchy but also commercial, rhythmic and vivid. It might as well be a hit song although I am not keen on this kind of music. From my point of view, the message of both, song and video is a criticism about nowadays imposed beauty standard which might as well lead disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Summing up, this video could be watched for many young people and for this reason, subliminal messages should have been avoided in order to prevent mental and alimentary disorders.
In this video I think the singer makes an intelligent criticism about the superficiality that surrounds the world of women, magazines using Photoshop in their models, extremely thin women ... in short a critique of the standards of beauty that we are imposing and a clear call to loving yourself and not how they want you to be.
There is widespread evidence that extreme thinness is not healthy, so it doesn't matter if you are fat or thin, what is really important is to be healthy, feel good about yourself and leave behind the stereotypes.
When we were asked to write a comment on this song, I had no idea that it would be about a song that I had listened to so many times on the radio. Nevertheless, as it usually happens, you don't pay attention to the lyrics of a song until you have a reason to do it. As soon as I listened to it, it reminded me of another similar song by the Canadian singer Shania Twan called "What a Way to Wanna Be". In both songs we are taught that nowadays people are mad about being models-like and that's a wrong idea. It is so ironic that the singer herself doesn't fit the "ideal" stereotype to follow; she is not a good example to look up to. As a result, the song is born of irony and it is profoundly embedded in criticisim towards a superficial society. Summing up, I really liked the song and, personally, I agree with its powerful and realistic message. I'm loving it!
What you find in the dictionary if you look up the word "beauty" is "a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object hat provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction". After reading it carefully, the judgement of what can be consider as beutiful is specified nowhere. So the lack of information could be the problem. Society and fashion are filling the definition and offering a fixed prototype of what is beautiful and what is not. If we do a review along fashion history, fashion rules are more dynamic than we think. Last centuries prettiest woman were pale skin and fatty as it was a credential of their higher social status and good health. By contrast, today the sterotype has change completely to come up with the stereotype of woman tanned and thinner as a barbie girl. At this point, were I you is preferable to accept yourself as you are than be worried your whole life pretending to be a different person. Don't forget that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
From my point of view, this is a really entertaining, cheerful and catchy video. However, this kind of music style usually becomes to a smash hit as fast as it falls out of fashion. I might be wrong but as I see it, this song tries to send a clear message: We must be satisfied with our bodies and don’t try to be like models. Having said that, I’d come up with another meaning of this song. Day after day, scientists and experts inform us how obesity rates are rising in a dangerous way. Children don’t play outdoors as they used to and eat fast food more than ever. People spend too much time in front of their computers and watching TV. Therefore, nobody could deny that all these habits need to be changed. To sum up, I would look at this song as a push in order to have a healthier life style, keep fit and happy, without fall obsessed about top-models standards.
All About That Twerking:
ResponderEliminarFirst of all, I must recognize I have neither listened to that Meghan Trainor’s song nor seen this video before having to do this writing.
Nevertheless, now that I have watched it, I must say that although it seems to be a feminist anthem against the tremendous discrimination happening nowadays in our society towards overweight people (specifically for women), it in fact fails on its purpose when the singer uses some inappropriate expressions such as “skinny bitches” or “silicone Barbie doll”, which actually involve another kind of discrimination against thinner women. Moreover, these words are pronounced in the video at the same time that a black female dancer plays this trendy, sexually and provocative manner of dancing known as ‘twerking’, which other singers such as Miley Cyrus or Nicki Minaj frequently use in their videos or concerts as an easy way for selling more discs.
Finally, this coarse language can also be found in the different parts of ‘All About That Bass’ in which it is pointed out the preference of boys for those girls having voluptuous bottoms, which has remind me of a 90’s song released by the rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot called ‘Baby Got Back’ (recently sampled by Nicki Minaj in her video ‘Anaconda’, an impressive ode to the twerking culture), where the singer literally says “I like big butts and I cannot lie. I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy / 'Cause silicone parts are made for toys. So Cosmo says you're fat / Well I ain't down with that!”. At least, Sir Mix-a-Lot did not try to hide his rude and offensive message behind a treacly song pretending to claim for the non-discrimination against chubby women.
At first sight (or view), not only does the video seem to be colourful attractive, but the song is also quite catchy. Beyond that, the aim of the song is totally different. Nowadays we are getting used to be extremely worried about our size, which drives us really crazy sometimes. Therefore, the song is meant to be a criticism of our mad situation about not putting on weight and worrying about our image.
ResponderEliminarThe song approaches the topic from different factors which might well be responsible for getting this situation. In the first place, it states how easily influenced we are, magazines full of touched up model’s photos and those sorts of artificial things we get used to dying for.
Secondly, the importance it takes in our childhood, such as the selling and advertised dolls like barbie and ken. The more kids play with dolls, the more they tend to idealize their life and bodies in a similar way. Therefore, in doing so, the song points out how superficial and vain our life style could become.
Last but not least, our parents’ education is deeply remarkable in our childhood. The lyrics state that “Her mother used to tell her not to worry about her size”. The lack of awareness of problematic situations such as anorexia and bulimia is an enormous concern that parents must worry about.
All in all, not only is the song quite catchy and vivid (in a commercial way), but also has a crucial message to take into consideration.
It seems to be that the ideal size for women is 36...
ResponderEliminarAs a PE teacher my pupils´ bodies are the prevailing topic that I use in my lessons.... and taking into account that my students are teenagers, thier bodies (and the image and opinion that they have about them) is not only a topic, but also a significant concern.
Nowadays the mass media provides us with an extremely distorted image of how our bodies must be in order to be “the perfect woman/man” and most of us do not fit in those kinds of “sculptural” Venus or Adonis.
Sometimes this situatiton can be disturbing when we are talking about young people, mainly teenagers, whose personalities are not matured enough to get ride of all of these unhealthy corporal images that their idols usually show and promote. As a result, we are suffering an alarming increase of many psychosomatic illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia (girls) or vigorexy (boys) in all of which the similar feature is the wrong image that the patients have about their own bodies.
In conclusion, we are living in a body (un)worship society in which songs like the one that we must to write about are a way to rebel ourselves against the “perfect” (and definitely unhealthy) figure that it tries to drum into our heads.... because size 42 worths it!
This video clip is very catchy, rhythmic and vivid. It shows dancers "twerking" and showing their bodies off unabashedly as a criticism of certain stereotypes in our society.
ResponderEliminarBy getting to the point, the clip voices criticism of beauty standards nowadays. It somewhat stands up for chubby women by giving reasons as they can do anything just like other slim girls and, what’s more, even providing advantages of being dumpy. It is a good message for teenagers not to let themselves be fooled by subliminal images embedded in toys, ads, magazines, etc.
On the contrary, in the attempt to fight against this standard, it might be defending another stereotype which is not appropriated at all – obesity—. As everybody knows obesity brings serious health problems with it.
Summing up, the extremes meet. Anorexia or bulimiaas well as obesity are eating disorders, some to get fit as alleged “perfect bodies”, and others for neglecting what they eat. The best decision: be yourself and eat healthy.
After seeing this video clip I have to recognise that I have not stopped of humming it. Not only is the song pretty catchy, but it also transmits a positive power.
ResponderEliminarOver time we are more worried about our size and personally speaking I think TV is by far the most common cause of this problem. Children, teenagers even adults desire to look like their idols and they are normally a size 34-36.
Anyway, although this song can seem to be a critique of slim people, she's not bashing thin people. There is literally a part where she says "just kidding, I know you think you're fat" referring to some really thin people. So basically this song is about anyone who thinks they're fat. Like even if they're thin and they think they're fat. And she transmits a good message for them, such as “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top”
To sum up, songs are a good way to help people who really have this problem.
To begin with, although the style of the music is not my favourite, I have to admit that the song is quite rhythmic and the catchy chorus remains stuck in your head for hours after listening to it.
ResponderEliminarThe video shows different dancers doing exaggerated moves, some of them I found hilarious. We could say that these dancers do not fit in the standard stereotypes shown in TV and movies, what is done on purpose, given that the lyrics of the song are clearly criticising those kind of standards. In the video, we can also watch how two young girls dance the song and how a very thin woman is "defeated" by the other dancers.
I would say that the video is a parody of rap and reggaeton videos, where the main male singer usually appears surrounded of girls doing sexually-oriented moves. The song criticises the image of girls sold in media (TV, magazines...), where skinny girls are found to be the norm, instead of the exception. This message is of crucial importance for young girls (and that is the reason why I think they are shown in the video), because it can harm the confidence about themselves and result in unfortunately everyday more common eating disorders (anorexia or bulimia).
I agree with this part of the message, because it can help to improve and boost people self-esteem independently of their weight or size. What I do not like is that the song is promoting, at the same time, a view of women as objects, whose main purpose is to find a boy who likes them ("Boys like a little more booty to hold at night."). The hard comments about thin girls ("silicone Barbie doll" or "skinny bitches") still give too much importance to the image, finally favouring part of what was originally criticised. In contrast, my opinion is that the message should be to avoid the importance our society gives to our external image, either in one direction or the other.
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ResponderEliminarFirst of all I have to confess I do not understand completely the song. In particular I do not understand the expression "I am all about that bass". But anyway I agree with the message and the content. I think nowdays society is too much worried about image. And does not give importance to other values that are the really important ones. I think we all would be much happier if we were able to think and act as the song says.
ResponderEliminarMuch have been said about body image and attitudes towards physique and specific body parts. It is said that we modify our ideas of our own body according to our emotional state as well as the reactions of others in the environment. However, this conception may or may not correlate with the authentic reality. In fact, people in general and teenagers in particular, tend to ignore other abilities and focus on appearance with consequent lowered self-esteem and increased risk for eating disorders.
ResponderEliminarBut how to feel comfortable in your own skin? Being confident is the key .
Clearly, this is the message that the song tries to send us as well as the importance to remind yourself that beauty is never dependent upon the approval of others. Quite the contrary, the power to be beautiful comes from within you. You are the only person who can do this.
At first sight and looking only at outward appearance, it song seems a funny, innocent and sweet melody where dancers break with the typical stereotype.. But nothing far away from the reality.
ResponderEliminarThe message of the song is a criticism to the nowadays stablished beauty standars in which all the women and, why not, men must be like "Barbie and Ken".
As we know, this sub-culture can develop some psychological and nourishing disorders that affect seriously to children, teenagers and even adults.
It must be difficult for young people who are not well-formed yet do not neglect by the media preassure and the unending shelling of images.
At this point is where parents and teachers have to be alert and to guide them showing the real values in life and learning to be self-confident.
Este comentario ha sido eliminado por el autor.
ResponderEliminarTo begin with I must say that no sooner had I seen this video-clip that I thought It would be weird and extravagant too. However, I must admit that once I started watching it I got hooked at it because of its rhythm, powerful colours and very catchy song that made me want to tap my feet.
ResponderEliminarBesides I didn't understand quite well it's incomprehensible lyrics at once , I could understand what it was about. I believe that society play a role on standars of beauty in both women and men. Moreover, we are taught since we are children that the perfect women are the ones we see on the catwalk.
In contrast, It is known that most doctors are warning about the risks of extremely skinny people and the method they use in order to grow skinny.
Finally what I completely disagree with is the way they treat skinny women and how they have been ridiculed in this video clip in order to justify their appearance
I think this is a good video to realize how important is your self-image. Nowadays, we are supposed to be fit, young and good-looking. This is the reason because gyms are crowed and plastic surgeons are richer today.
ResponderEliminarWe are living in a world where image is very important but we must be strong to avoid this pressure. This is the message that we get in this catchy song.
The song is a criticism to the concept of beauty in modern society, which is typically associated to thinness, and claims body curves as a real sign of attractiveness. This concept started to establish in the second half of the 20th century, with the rise of the modern media, specially TV and magazines, where women appearances are mainly limited to slim figures from celebrities, actresses and even singers. However, it has not been considered as a widespread problem and an object of study until the last decades.
ResponderEliminarAlthough the song addresses the problem in a funny way, because of the rhythm and colors, it is, in fact, a quite serious issue which is responsible of several diseases. The continuos barrage of beauty ideals related to thinness can produce mental disorders to those women who do not accomplish the imposed standard, being the teenagers specially vulnerable. Anorexia and bulimia are just some well-known examples of derived diseases but not the only ones. Another common consecuences which are less noticiable but still important are depression or marginalization.
Finally, it must be noticed that, although this problem has been traditionally associated to women, in the last years men has also started to be affected, appearing new mental disorders such as vigorexia.
After listening to this song I would like to remark several issues. First of all, the content: I think it’s clairly focus on one idea, related to marketing, by which we have been told by the media for decades: thickness as a superior status, as an easier way to socialize. Secondly, it could be interesting covering the vocabulary used in the lyrics, related to sound, to waves that, moving in a certain frecuency, can be perceived by humans as sounds, in this case: as music. Bass would symbolize low sounds (like the ones played by bass guitars) and treble the highest sounds in a chorus, that is to say, the corresponding part to a voice called “soprano” in the context of a vocal score. As waves, low sounds are larger and slower, what I understand as a metaphore to show fatness, while high sounds are shorter and faster, which would stand for thinness.
ResponderEliminarFirst of all, I must confess that, although I love music, I had not heard this song previously and I've found, after searching for it in Internet, that it is a huge smash hit all over the world.
ResponderEliminarThe aesthetic of the video (because of the use of a wide variety of colors) reminds me of another song from the nineties called "Barbie Girl" which, curiously, was chosen by The Rolling Stone magazine as the worst song of the nineties.
Musically, the song does not transmit/convey me much but, to be honest, I must admit that has a catchy engaging rhythm.
As my colleagues uttered (I don´t want to beat around the bass), the main topic of the song is the critique of the culture of the body that rules our society and makes us see as normal things that are not such as 1´80 centimetres tall girls who weight 50 kilograms.
In my opinion, extreme thinness is a problems often associated with a lack of appreciation of ourselves because everybody (mostly teenagers) is eager for being accepted in his/her social circles.
Having in mind than thinness is an important problem, we can NOT neglect our body because obesity is nowadays, by far and curiously, one of the big problems in welfare societies (according to latest polls six out of ten children in Spain are obese).
As the Latins said more than two thousand years ago, `in medio virtus´
First of all, I must say, I listened the song three times and, only then did I realize the message. Also, I neither knew the song nor the singer.
ResponderEliminarSecondly, in the video appears such as lead role a plump, pale skin and blonde singer and, four singers; the choir, two of which, not only are they curvy and provocative but are mulatto as well, on second thoughts, I would say blank. On the other hand, we can see a fat and mulatto man with a really big stomach fat. However, in spite of being rather overweight, he looks as if he is quite nimble and with stamina, dancing unabashedly and coordinated with the music. Finally, we watch a bit of skinny woman who is ridiculed.
The video is set in two striking and colorful areas, a room and a dining room which have extravagant furniture and decoration do not go unnoticed at the video and I would go so far as to say that it is a bit tacky and over-the-top.
Thirdly, not only is the song quite catchy but also commercial, rhythmic and vivid. It might as well be a hit song although I am not keen on this kind of music.
From my point of view, the message of both, song and video is a criticism about nowadays imposed beauty standard which might as well lead disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
Summing up, this video could be watched for many young people and for this reason, subliminal messages should have been avoided in order to prevent mental and alimentary disorders.
In this video I think the singer makes an intelligent criticism about the superficiality that surrounds the world of women, magazines using Photoshop in their models, extremely thin women ... in short a critique of the standards of beauty that we are imposing and a clear call to loving yourself and not how they want you to be.
ResponderEliminarThere is widespread evidence that extreme thinness is not healthy, so it doesn't matter if you are fat or thin, what is really important is to be healthy, feel good about yourself and leave behind the stereotypes.
When we were asked to write a comment on this song, I had no idea that it would be about a song that I had listened to so many times on the radio. Nevertheless, as it usually happens, you don't pay attention to the lyrics of a song until you have a reason to do it. As soon as I listened to it, it reminded me of another similar song by the Canadian singer Shania Twan called "What a Way to Wanna Be". In both songs we are taught that nowadays people are mad about being models-like and that's a wrong idea.
ResponderEliminarIt is so ironic that the singer herself doesn't fit the "ideal" stereotype to follow; she is not a good example to look up to. As a result, the song is born of irony and it is profoundly embedded in criticisim towards a superficial society.
Summing up, I really liked the song and, personally, I agree with its powerful and realistic message. I'm loving it!
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ResponderEliminarWhat you find in the dictionary if you look up the word "beauty" is "a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object hat provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction". After reading it carefully, the judgement of what can be consider as beutiful is specified nowhere. So the lack of information could be the problem. Society and fashion are filling the definition and offering a fixed prototype of what is beautiful and what is not. If we do a review along fashion history, fashion rules are more dynamic than we think. Last centuries prettiest woman were pale skin and fatty as it was a credential of their higher social status and good health. By contrast, today the sterotype has change completely to come up with the stereotype of woman tanned and thinner as a barbie girl. At this point, were I you is preferable to accept yourself as you are than be worried your whole life pretending to be a different person. Don't forget that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
ResponderEliminarFrom my point of view, this is a really entertaining, cheerful and catchy video. However, this kind of music style usually becomes to a smash hit as fast as it falls out of fashion.
ResponderEliminarI might be wrong but as I see it, this song tries to send a clear message: We must be satisfied with our bodies and don’t try to be like models.
Having said that, I’d come up with another meaning of this song. Day after day, scientists and experts inform us how obesity rates are rising in a dangerous way. Children don’t play outdoors as they used to and eat fast food more than ever. People spend too much time in front of their computers and watching TV. Therefore, nobody could deny that all these habits need to be changed.
To sum up, I would look at this song as a push in order to have a healthier life style, keep fit and happy, without fall obsessed about top-models standards.