Question about a madonna song?.?!
Question: I heard the song by madonna -what it feels like for a girl
I didnt really listen to it the first time i heard it when it was first released but now i got it on my ipod.
Anways i listened to the first part of the lyrics and it got me thinking. Thats why i ask this question.
What do you think these lyrics mean from the above song.
((spoken:)
Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
cause its ok to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly youd love to know what its like
Wouldnt you
What it feels like for a girl)
Also what do you think the story behind the song is? Do you think it has some sort of point?.
Just curious
Answers: I heard the song by madonna -what it feels like for a girl
I didnt really listen to it the first time i heard it when it was first released but now i got it on my ipod.
Anways i listened to the first part of the lyrics and it got me thinking. Thats why i ask this question.
What do you think these lyrics mean from the above song.
((spoken:)
Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
cause its ok to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly youd love to know what its like
Wouldnt you
What it feels like for a girl)
Also what do you think the story behind the song is? Do you think it has some sort of point?.
Just curious
SEE LINK.
Hers a bit of it explaining the lyrics
Most female composers, wary of participating in a game where the essence of Woman is located in her sexuality, have chosen to turn their talents to nearly any topic other than the age-old question: "What does Woman want?" Furthermore, the exclusion of women from cultural production until very recently left the elucidation of the mystery that is the nature of female pleasure in the hands of male artists. However, how can an artist represent the unrepresentable, offer "evidence of things not seen?" Fortunately, Madonna took up the challenge last year with "What It Feels Like For a Girl." The following spoken introduction to the song highlights a problematic aspect of the male/female binary opposition:
"Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
‘Cause it’s ok to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
‘Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly you’d love to know what it’s like
Wouldn’t you?
What it feels like for a girl."
Although the song’s lyrics do not disrupt the reassuring, passive, repetitive beat, there is a definite implicit protest. With lyrics such as "Strong inside but you don’t know it / Good little girls they never show it," and especially in her ironic allusion to My Funny Valentine: "When you open up your mouth to speak / Could you be a little weak?", it is hard to miss the socially constructed concepts of gender she is calling into question.
As McClary pointed out in her lecture, Madonna " . . . has an uncanny grasp of the stakes of female representation . . . . As we look back at the last twenty years of gender negotiations, Madonna provides a veritable archive for historical structures of feeling: a specific set of options for each point in time of what it felt like, what it can feel like, and sometimes even what it will feel like for a girl."
Although Madonna’s chameleon aesthetic often gets dismissed as superficial, in reality she is constantly working against the status quo and persuading us to call into question these things we take for granted as "truths." She flies in the face of conventional assumptions in an attempt to redefine the "norms."
shes a bi and she wants her cake and to eat it ;)
Just another prIck trying to promote Homosexuality as normal she even gets black kids as pets
in that song she was trying to highlight the inequality between the sexes, in the vid to the song she is on the run with her elderly nan, her point being, nothing has really changed, the above and beyond 12inch club mix is good, 7mins 27 sec on the original ext single, its still on my zen. she is saying too many males would find it degrading to be a girl because of their attitude to women, like this is too often on this website.