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College Humor released the Sexually Enlightened R&B Song back in 2014, but like Funny or Die’s Forehead Tittaes video, it’s resurfaced lately, going viral.
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The lyrics are gold. Exhibit A: "Sex is a conversation, not a lecture" and “Swear we won’t be done just because I’ve come/ Why should the length of sex depend on my orgasm?”
Don’t drink anything while watching this video, though. I nearly drowned my keyboard with coffee as this ignited one of my famous giggle fits.
And while this video is hilarious, it also brings attention to problematic music. R’n’B, in particular, is a musical genre known for its misogynistic and slut-shaming lyrics.
For example, this line from Drake’s Hotline Bling: “These days, all I do is/Wonder if you bendin' over backwards for someone else”, which slut shames his ex.
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Or this line from Usher’s Love in This Club that assumes the woman on the other side of the club MUST want to sleep with him because she looked at him: “Looking in your eyes / While you’re on the other side / You’re doing it on purpose, wind it and work it / I can tell by the way that you’re looking at me girl.”
And there are endless more examples. But there’s not enough time in the day to list them all. Check out this list of problematic music from Buzzfeed to see what I mean.
Will this end the casual misogyny in the media we consume? Probably not, but it's a start.
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