Female artists continue to be pigeonholed, while their male counterparts are encouraged to spread their creative wings.
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Women are routinely degraded for entertainment in popular culture, from rap to reality TV. It’s packaged and sold as empowering and ‘good for women’.
Rock artist Nick Cave finds poetry in the darkness - his song “Jubilee Street” is an example.
While fashion can be an act of defiance and subversion, it can also exploit the oppressed.
Musicians and performers have long been considered to influence young people in negative ways.
Miranda Kerr sparked controversy last week when she appeared in Japanese Vogue dressed in a kimono. Critics in the blogosphere and The New York Daily News wondered whether her donning traditional Japanese…
In the same week American rapper Nicki Minaj released Anaconda, a music video dedicated to celebrating “the butt”, US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released a video, Shake It Off, accidentally dedicated…
Earlier this week, New Zealand singer Ella Yelich-O'Connor – AKA Lorde – won two Grammys, including best song for the sleeper hit Royals and – almost – topped Triple J’s Hottest 100 (her song Royals came…
Since her tongue-poking and “twerk”-filled performance at the American Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus has been the subject of intense media discussion. This has only magnified in the past week, after…
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