Is Lily Allen having her cake and eating it with her video, Hard Out Here? The lyrics are sort of subversive but the women in the video are still having to shake their booty for a payday.
The lady of the manor doesn't have to twerk (for a living) to make her point but the hired help do. And she gets to say bitch. A lot.
Charles Shaar Murray says, "What would have been really subversive is if the women in the video turned out to be guys in drag."
Lily Allen and misogyny in the Independent.
Suzanne Moore points out the race dimension in the Guardian.
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