Satire In Hard Out Here

Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here” it is a work of light satire which mocks modern day consumerism and stereotypical society’s views of women in media. In her music video Allen immediately points out a few of society’s views on consumerism. In her first lines she used a very common term from society which from a misogynistic background, is used to describe a female and continues on with a list of other common stereotypes such as women in the kitchen, in media it is all about materialistic possessions instead of personality, the double standards of society, and plenty more. In her second verse Allen takes on the voice of “the society in which we live in” and she tells all the women that they need to be a size six, being from the U.K. this is the equivalent to a size two in the U.S. Women need to be perfect wife material or they will end up alone, is basically where this verse is going. This where the satirical aspect of the song lies, she mocks the stereotypical view of what wife material is and inflates it to a higher level, she says that women need to be thin, attractive, rich or a great cook, and have someone to objectify you as a trophy to live a good life.
The music video displays satire from the beginning where Lily Allen is shown getting liposuction while her music producer stands next to her berating …show more content…
Allen flips the phrase denouncing that it is actually tougher to be a woman than it is being a man. Near the end of the song Allen sings “Always trust the injustice cause it’s not going away. Inequality promises that it’s here to stay.” This line is brings awareness to the fact that true equality will likely never come, although debated for quite some time inequality has always and likely will always be a