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sorcyressLast time I spent any words in this journal on Katy Perry, it was to talk about Sesame Street and point out that cheating is thus regardless of the sex or gender of the person you're cheating with.. I still have basically all the problems with that particular song, but that's not what this post is about.
This post is about the song "Roar". (I urge you to click on that link, if for no other reason than because it is filmed in "Junglevision". It's wonderful.)
Roar had been vaguely on the edges of my mind, as a "I suppose I heard that somewhere popular music is played", but I'd never put any investment into it. All I knew was it had a stupid catchy hook, and then one day I heard a snippet play as part of an advertisement, and went all "okay, fine, I'm on YouTube anyways, I might as well."
...
This song is awesome! The video is pretty amusing as well, but the song itself...it's a girl power power ballad! It's a song that takes the idea of being a Good Girl1 and basically says "welp, did that, it was bullshit, now I'm awesome".
more or less immediately turns into
(With a brief interlude at I went from zero, to my own hero and how could that line be more rad, because we should all totally be our own heroes, fuck those people we look up to. This is not sarcasm. Be someone you consider heroic.)
The song makes me really happy. I like women2 saying "yeah fuck you, I am powerful", since it's a thing I don't internalize enough and I'm not good at remembering for myself. Plus, the video has a couple really lovely visuals that just make me smile.
Chief among these is the way she sits in the last verse, when she is fully realized Jungle Queen with all of her accouterments. She is sitting to take up space --her legs are flung out, if she was on the T, people'd be glaring at her all over the place. And I think that's wonderful, because too damn often, girls aren't supposed to take up space.
So yeah. Check it out. It's a cheesy pop ballad, and Katy has some serious problems as an artist, but this one made me smile.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Maybe, like, lacking the actual ability to talk about this post, I'll just link to it every other day until everyone has read it and is sick of me talking about it?
2: This is actually a really interesting part of my genderqueerness. In lots of ways, I react as though society thinks I'm a dude. But I was socialized as a girl, and I'm broken in a lot of very traditionally female ways (good girls aren't here). Which means that all my power is female, since a lot of power is being able to push yourself away from the things that broke you and be better than them.
Being femme and flirtatious and social is for Erik. Being accomplished and fire and surviving is Kat.
Postscript: Write me porn!
This post is about the song "Roar". (I urge you to click on that link, if for no other reason than because it is filmed in "Junglevision". It's wonderful.)
Roar had been vaguely on the edges of my mind, as a "I suppose I heard that somewhere popular music is played", but I'd never put any investment into it. All I knew was it had a stupid catchy hook, and then one day I heard a snippet play as part of an advertisement, and went all "okay, fine, I'm on YouTube anyways, I might as well."
...
This song is awesome! The video is pretty amusing as well, but the song itself...it's a girl power power ballad! It's a song that takes the idea of being a Good Girl1 and basically says "welp, did that, it was bullshit, now I'm awesome".
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath
Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agreed politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
more or less immediately turns into
You held me down, but I got up
Get ready ’cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
(With a brief interlude at I went from zero, to my own hero and how could that line be more rad, because we should all totally be our own heroes, fuck those people we look up to. This is not sarcasm. Be someone you consider heroic.)
The song makes me really happy. I like women2 saying "yeah fuck you, I am powerful", since it's a thing I don't internalize enough and I'm not good at remembering for myself. Plus, the video has a couple really lovely visuals that just make me smile.
Chief among these is the way she sits in the last verse, when she is fully realized Jungle Queen with all of her accouterments. She is sitting to take up space --her legs are flung out, if she was on the T, people'd be glaring at her all over the place. And I think that's wonderful, because too damn often, girls aren't supposed to take up space.
So yeah. Check it out. It's a cheesy pop ballad, and Katy has some serious problems as an artist, but this one made me smile.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Maybe, like, lacking the actual ability to talk about this post, I'll just link to it every other day until everyone has read it and is sick of me talking about it?
2: This is actually a really interesting part of my genderqueerness. In lots of ways, I react as though society thinks I'm a dude. But I was socialized as a girl, and I'm broken in a lot of very traditionally female ways (good girls aren't here). Which means that all my power is female, since a lot of power is being able to push yourself away from the things that broke you and be better than them.
Being femme and flirtatious and social is for Erik. Being accomplished and fire and surviving is Kat.
Postscript: Write me porn!
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on 2014-02-11 10:49 pm (UTC)And the capauchin monkey made me giggle ^_^
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on 2014-02-19 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2014-02-20 12:13 am (UTC)