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Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan
I never said I like Britney because of the images she creates through covers or videos. Actually I don't like a whole lot of them because of the same reason I stated above.
And like I already said, there is meaning behind the Duty cover and furthermore it actually critises the sexual objectification. Same goes for the Sparkle video for example.
The only thing the new covers do is portraying Ayu as a sexy and like a 20 year old looking woman (or girl) who's an available object to men and just waits to get fucked.
I'm pretty sure that's the reason why most of her fans like the covers. Most people don't want women do make a cover with some meaning behind it, they want them as beautiful, sexy and available objects. I'm tierd of it. Too bad no one here ever cared for the (miss)understood covers and was thinking just one second about the symbolism behind it. Those covers are so great. But people prefer to think of them as ugly and "monkey smile" just because Ayu isn't beautiful or sexy on them.
Says a lot about how people see women and how much they actually value the "old" Ayu when they like erokawaii Ayu.
(And there is a BIG difference how men and women are portrayed. Women are sexual objects while men are sexual subjects)
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If anything Ayu criticized the hypersexualization of women in Because of You and sexy little things... and that's it. Other than that she usually links sexualization with empowerment (my name's WOMEN for example). I don't see any criticism on it on Duty, I just see a girl wearing a skin tight fetish jaguar outfit while giving the viewer a sexy look. What she meant with her work is obviously open for interpretation, what is actually being shown, isn't.
And I do love (miss)understood covers... I don't see anything symbolic about them, but they for sure portrays wonderfully the feeling of embarassment of being missunderstood.
And nops, male popstars are sexual objects, as much as female popstars, even if the codes that determine what a sexual object is are different for each gender... That's why most of the time they can't pursue a relationship, they can't get out of the closet, they sing mostly about romantic sex as if they were serenating for the listener, etc. Let's not forget just this week both Justin Bieber and John Legend made headlines with naked photos. I dare you to show me a male popstar under 40 with a straight image that doesn't make money basically by selling sexual fantasies to horny teenage girls. Sex is the biggest fuel of popmusic.