Popular music is one of the primary influences on how we see gender. Pop seems inescapable and is constantly shaping the way we think whether we consciously realize it or not. Hotline Bling by Drake, How Deep Is Your Love by Calvin Harris and Disciples, Blasé by Ty Dolla Sign, and Good For You by Selena Gomez all send specific messages about gender and how each should act and react. In the song Hotline Bling, Drake sings about a love lost. We hear these songs all the time and it is fairly petty song, but some of the things Drake says in the song sends a social cue regarding who should or is "in charge." Some examples: "'Cause ever since I left the city, you started wearing less and goin' out more", "Hangin' with some girls I've
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He wrote the song How Deep Is Your Love, but the song is sung by a female whose name is Ina Wroldsen. This song takes on a very desperate tone. The lyrics "open up my eyes and tell me who I am" backs up the idea that women should take instruction from society and the male gaze when it comes to who they are. This idea places more value on the concept of a woman and who a woman really is. "I want you to breathe me, let me be your air" sends the message that women are to give, and men receive especially when compared to other pop songs written from the male perspective, where you hear more "give it to me's." The song also tells us that women are the ones who should be desperate for love and romance and full of emotion and the men as being the casual consumer. These messages have the potential to influence how men and women treat each other and interact with each other, especially the younger generation of girls and guys that are the biggest consumers of modern pop music. The messages can be confusing to them when faced with certain emotions and dictate how they react to those emotions. The messages can also throw off the balance in romantic relationships between young men and women when it comes to the idea of who "gives" and who "recieves," and what throws this off-kilter are the ropes that constrain certain emotions within each gender and the social structures that dictate what emotions are appropriate and the norm for each
He wrote the song How Deep Is Your Love, but the song is sung by a female whose name is Ina Wroldsen. This song takes on a very desperate tone. The lyrics "open up my eyes and tell me who I am" backs up the idea that women should take instruction from society and the male gaze when it comes to who they are. This idea places more value on the concept of a woman and who a woman really is. "I want you to breathe me, let me be your air" sends the message that women are to give, and men receive especially when compared to other pop songs written from the male perspective, where you hear more "give it to me's." The song also tells us that women are the ones who should be desperate for love and romance and full of emotion and the men as being the casual consumer. These messages have the potential to influence how men and women treat each other and interact with each other, especially the younger generation of girls and guys that are the biggest consumers of modern pop music. The messages can be confusing to them when faced with certain emotions and dictate how they react to those emotions. The messages can also throw off the balance in romantic relationships between young men and women when it comes to the idea of who "gives" and who "recieves," and what throws this off-kilter are the ropes that constrain certain emotions within each gender and the social structures that dictate what emotions are appropriate and the norm for each