July 2011
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June 2011
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“While superficially Swift and Perry come across as strong, autonomous women, they serve to reinforce the traditional idea of women as weak and submissive, and they slyly align themselves with that role. Despite the trappings, the concerns expressed in their lyrics are more Tammy Wynette than Ani DiFranco. Perry and Swift are marketing two distinct caricatures of femininity. Perry is the pin-up girl in leather pumps and a cleavage-bearing bustier, seductively poised for the entertainment of the male, heterosexual masses. Swift is the pious little lamb, obsessively pining over “cute” boys yet touting virginity as her number one virtue. Taylor Swift and Katy Perry aren’t telling us, or selling us, anything new. They’re not empowering and they’re certainly not original. Their music is as artificial and calculated as any other pop star. Move along, people, just move along.”
—(via The Faux-Feminism of Katy Perry & Taylor Swift)
“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.”
—Angelus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2.17 (Passion)
