just listened to like half of this album and I gotta say it wasn't very super duper

Tracklist and correct cover added

That's the exact same problem with "All About That Bass" and just about any other pop hit about body consciousness,
they're never straightforward with their message, and instead of actually having positive messages, get warped into saying
"guys like u if u got dat ass"

@Shark: Yeah, but doesn't that song also unintentionally have the subtext that if you don't
have a big butt, your body is inferior in the eyes of men?

I wish all of these "feminist" songs didn't have to shame the other side.

It's kind of like that other hit "All About That Bass" which says that men find plus sized women
sexy, but also contains the subtext of men not finding skinny women sexy. Why shame skinny
women? Can't they praise both?

EDIT: fuck Shark beat me to it!

@Futures: If you think there's a problem with anything we're talking about, report it to the mods. Otherwise, stop halting the conversation please.

im died

Nah futures only comes by to say stop in conversations

Album Rating: 3.0

I liked her for a while but I can't stand her now. Nice review and all but I'll probably avoid this.

Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off

I think ideally the message these songs are trying to convey is one of "society tells you that you have to be skinny, but it's ok to be whatever the fuck you want to be." and part of the problem with the songs isn't really their fault, i.e. society tells women to behave/dress/look a certain way to please men, and all they can do as mainstream pop songs is play with those notions to a certain extent. minaj does it more than most in that she flips the narrative even further onto "not only will I not look the way society tells me, I'm also not going to act in the way society wants me to act."



important part here being that how men view you shouldn't actually matter because they (we) shouldn't dictate how women should look. big butt, small butt, medium-sized butt, whatever, just as long as you're doing whatever the hell you want to do. no one's input here should be relevant except your own, and so these songs provide contrasting viewpoints from society so that the women they target can act however the hell they want to act, given a bunch (at least two) of different ways other people act.



(i'm probably talking out of my ass here so if anyone actually knows what they're talking about that'd be much appreciated!)

why is lookin ass not on this album

It's only for the single, not every sing here is butts
(Ex:pills and potions, even though that song sucks)

sowing changed his/her avatar what

@Brostep: It's okay. This is Sputnik, we're all talking out of our asses.

But my point is that although these songs do a good job at attacking the fat shaming side of society, they create a new problem of skinny shaming. I wonder if there's ever going to be a song that bothers to praise one without actually shaming the other.

"You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll,
So, if that's what's you're into
Then go ahead and move along" - from All About That Bass

So she's mocking skinny girls by calling them stick figures and barbie dolls, which is entirely unnecessary.

I will praise "Anaconda" for NOT doing that though.

@trackbytrack what do u think

Sowing's been gushing over the new T-Swift album

Oh yeah I know but considering sowing love for brand new I didn't think he would actually change it

@Brostep: It's okay. This is Sputnik, we're all talking out of our asses.

"Oh yeah I know but considering sowing love for brand new I didn't think he would actually change it"

Why can't he be a fangirl of both? After all, he's the only guy on this site who's actively hyping up the new T-Swizzle mixtape

ur kidding me

Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off

@ars that's the thing: "skinny-shaming" isn't a thing yet because there's way more fat-shaming than the converse. you've got a few songs saying that being skinny can be really fake against the entire heft of modern societal expectations. and I'd say that Trainor saying she won't be a "stick-figure" isn't an indictment of skinny women as much as an indictment of the absurd standards of beauty society presents us