Gender Roles In Dear Future Husband, By Meghan Trainor

At the age of 11, Meghan Trainor wrote her first song ever. Then 9 years later she made her debut with the song “All About that Bass”. The song addressed how people should be loving their bigger body types, instead of hating on it. This song was such a big hit that it was named one of the most positive songs of 2014. Some even claim this the new feminist anthem. Trainor was seen as an addition to the feminist movement. Now she’s back with the song “Dear Future Husband” and it also grabbed a handful of attention but not in a good way. People are viewing the song as sexist because the lyrics and music video set back to the stereotypical gender roles era, but in song the stereotype was placed on the males. For that she received many of the criticisms. …show more content…
The music video for the song “Dear Future Husband” was set back to this time. In the video Trainor went on dates with different guys and if they do something she doesn’t like, she will reject them. The first scene of the video showed a house with white picket fences. That means it was set in the 1950s, where gender role was a big thing. Also, there are scenes of her scrubbing the floor and doing typical chores to show what women were expected to do in the 1950s. The food that she was cooking turned out setting on fire. Then she went on a date with a guy and he cooked her a meal to impress her. She did not enjoy the meal so she stood up and left. After that, she went on a date with a second guy at a carnival. He tried to impress her by showing his strength while playing a game. He failed to do so, and so she left. That same thing happened to the third guy. He took her on a boat and the water started splashing so she rejected him too. Towards the end of the video she was looking at matchmaking website. The guy she was looking at on the website showed up at her house with pizza and had no effort to impress her. That guy seemed to grab her attention the most. The first few tried too hard to impress her while the last one didn’t and she seems liked that. The music video did a good job sending off the vibe of the 1950s gender roles. With the settings and the scenarios, it match the overall theme of the song absolutely …show more content…
With the setting and outfits in the music video it all matches the theme. Some scenarios from the song were also shown in the video. Like when she said she doesn’t know how to cook, in the music video, it shows her failing at cooking and burning the apple pie. The outfits that she wore in the video are tight and it show a lot of skin, In the song she used her body often as a weapon to get the man to do things, so that affected how she dress in the video. The video is showing her rejecting all the guys that are trying very hard to impress and did all the things she listed in the song. She ended up settling for a guy that just brought her pizza and did nothing spectacular to impress her. In the song, she wanted her husband to do all of these stuff for her but in the video she stood them all up. The message of the music video is opposite from the message of the song but the overall theme and vibe of the video and song match very