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In reply to the discussion: Can't a woman enjoy her sexuality without being called a whore? [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)She was selling it since it's the ONLY thing that women are allowed to do in the music industry anymore. I'd bet my last dime that she would like to dress and perform the way SHE wants to instead of the industry insisting that the only thing women in the industry are ALLOWED to do is wear next to nothing and dance like a stripper. Then again, maybe without the industry telling her what to wear and how to perform she wouldn't even have her own act with her own style... the music industry has long since made cookie cutter female "artists" out of whole cloth no-talents with a pretty face and good figure, because Lord knows it doesn't make a shit's bit of difference how talented a female artist is, if she's not gorgeous with a good body and willing to perform how the industry wants them to (like a stripper) rather than how THEY want to the industry won't even talk to them.
What irritates me about Beyonce and every other cookie cutter female pop "artist" is that though she has a nice voice, she is where she is because she's gorgeous, and she sold out to the industry that sexualizes every single female artist. I've heard MANY MANY far more superior singing and performance talents in the local bars and clubs than anything the music industry has pushed on the public. And amazingly, they don't feel the need to wear nothing but their underwear and shake their asses as an excuse for a "performance". Women in the music industry anymore are nothing more than an extension of the sex industry whether they can carry a tune or not. And it makes me sick that people excuse this as if it's perfectly normal and acceptable.
The average person no longer even KNOWS what musical/performance talent is since the music industry decades ago decided we were too stupid to figure out for ourselves what was good and what we liked and instead invented "artists" they jammed down our throats.
And before anyone goes jumping on me thinking I'm prudish, I've worked in the sex industry for something like a decade. Obviously, I don't have a problem with the sex industry, but I sure as shit do have a problem with women being forced to dress and act like a stripper in OTHER industries as if that's all a woman is good for or good at. And I REALLY have a problem that it's accepted as if "oh, she's just enjoying her sexuality". NO, she isn't - she doesn't have a CHOICE but to dress and act like a stripper in the music industry anymore because that's all the music industry will accept when it comes to women.