Words by Ash Kissane

I’m getting a little sick of a few women who make money from detracting from the feminist movement and embarrassing womankind through their music. Here are a few of them. If you like them, sozaboutit. There are also some fucking stunners.

Let’s get the worst over with.

Taylor Swift

Body of a 23 year old, mind of a 12 year old.

This woman is forever bolstering the virgin/whore dichotomy and making a killing from the republican tweens who buy into her heterosexist bullshit and two-chord, shitty, boring country-pop.

Forever playing the victim, she is a “slut-shamer”; most evident in her song “You Belong With Me” in which, after realizing that the boy  she takes a fancy in (who is in a committed relationship), has no feelings for her, begins a personal attack on the apple of his eye. She sings, “She wears short skirts, I wear tee shirts/ she wears high-heels, I wear sneakers,” then goes on to talk about how his girlfriend is “known for what she does on the mattress.” The girlfriend now takes the place as the villain in this story because she’s had sex, not because, perhaps, she’s an empowered young woman with a healthy understanding of what she wants from her sexual lifestyle that is not directed by social pressures or standards. Obviously the object of Tay-Tay’s affection has no interest in her (maybe he’s noticed her obsessive, irrational, and perhaps psychotic tendencies) and therefore blame is directed at the other woman.

Initiatives like “Slut Walk” amongst countless others around the globe work hard at changing society’s connection between women’s clothing and their sexual behavior or self respect, I can’t even deal with how openly Swift shits all over it. In the last scene of the film clip, she even wears a white-fucking-dress and has the other girl in a red, revealing outfit – “Madonna” vs. “the whore”. There are no grey areas, and of course, in the world of Taylor Swift, the pure virgin prevails over the emotionless other.

Throughout all of her discography, so much importance is placed on the attainment of a boyfriend; it seems the world will end if she doesn’t get him, so extreme lengths are necessary to be “made whole”. It’s bunny boiler shit.

The message this woman puts out to this generation of kids is pretty fucking terrifying.

Carly Rae Jepson

…turns 28 this year. Did you know that?

There is this theme of derangement and obsession throughout these songs that make me so uneasy. “Call Me Maybe,” is one of the most confusingly shit songs I’ve ever heard. Clever pop writing though; it only takes someone to speak a line of her lyrics for it to be in your head all day.  But let’s just look at this line for a moment – “before you came into my life, I missed you so bad.” OK Carly!

Onto the video…This midget woman dressed as a 15 year old, climbs all over her wet car in an overt attempt to win the attention of an uninterested male…And he’s gay! Haven’t seen a plot twist like that since The Sixth Sense.

It’s strange and unsettling that her “people” try really hard to make it seem like she’s a teenager; she’s a woman in her late 20’s. Women can be successful in pop music in their late 20’s. There are a bunch of them! Is it because you might be able to get away with making vile, superficial trash when you’re really young? Maybe. There’s some weird shit going on.

Plus, that song with Owl City…more like Owl Shitty. Amirite.

Katy Perry

Firstly, I’ll say I do like a couple of things about her, just not these things and definitely not her music.

I have felt dislike for this woman, though, since she proclaimed she was a “skinnier version of Lily Allen and a fatter version of Amy Winehouse.” Don’t you even dare, Katheryn Hudsen.

She’s made some pretty strong anti-feminist moves, even stating “I’m not a feminist, but I believe in strong women.” Wait, so you are then? She clearly has the wrong ideas about feminism, because if you’re a woman and not a feminist, you’re probably not quite right in the old noggin’. There’s so much stigma around the word feminism and she’s completely added to that by stating that she doesn’t align herself with its ideals. Do you like voting, Katheryn? Do you like earning your own money? Girl, you need to educate yoself. She should have said nothing at all instead of putting the whole idea down; unfortunately a lot of  impressionable young girls look up to her.

And don’t even get me started on “I Kissed A Girl”  and its commoditization of homosexuality… I’ll leave it there as I am envisioning a Mexican wave of eye-rolls by Moustache readers as I write.