The music industry and societal expectations discourage female popular music artists from succeeding without sexualizing the artists’ professional image to market her music. Since these female popular musical artists are influential idols of her fans, these fans often mimic the artists’ actions to later adopt her beliefs. Because of the artists’ influence on these fans, which consists mostly of the upcoming generation, the artists should learn to become more conscious of the beliefs that she portrays including the gender stereotype of female empowerment through hyper-sexuality. Through analyzing the relationship between the lyrics from hit songs of female empowerment and its music videos in the United States, I will expose the myth subtly portrayed through the relationship of these media to later be absorbed subconscious in the minds of the viewers. This will untangle the association of hyper-sexuality with femininity. Until the society understands this, people will continue to objectify female popular music artists as well as females in general by measuring her success by the industry standards of beauty and body, not her talent.
Female pop stars have normalized female submission and are taught women to ignore the glass ceilings that to prevent women to achieving to full equal rights and respect as human beings. The popular artists influence other women to accept being submissive and judge themselves as well as others on specific standards of beauty idealized by the patriarchal society.
Even worse is how these female artists are not admitting to supporting feminism because society sees feminists as only focusing on the rights of females and not fighting for the rights of males, children, and/or animal as well.
Also female pop contradict their messages of female and relationship empowerment with portrayal of self-objectification to appease the male gaze and industry standards of successful sex selling. Men and women see females as sexual objects. Female submission has become normalized in society, placing women as no more than mere objects. This prevents job opportunities and equal rights and treatment of everyday women in society. This can also cause depression among women who do not meet the standards of the music industry. Men belittle women as well as women belittling see each other. If we want to see decreased rates of women reporting depression and low self-esteem issues, changes must be made in the portrayal of female pop artists in the music industry who influence of the perception of femininity among the males and females of all ages.
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