"All About That Bass" Rant

Um... try not to take it so personally or seriously :huh:

In my opinion but the skinny shaming and fat shaming groups need to take a chill pill, relax and enjoy their lives and their music. I honestly doubt she was trying to say she hates skinny girls. I think she was trying to say she isn't going to try to be skinny for a man's benefit and that her mom said she should love her body no matter what size. Not all music has to be taken in its most literal sense.

Reading the lyrics, she's talking about photoshop and silicone and barbie dolls, not women who are thin or have thigh gaps.

She's saying that you don't need a "spot healing tool" or surgery to be beautiful.

Um... try not to take it so personally or seriously :huh:

In my opinion but the skinny shaming and fat shaming groups need to take a chill pill, relax and enjoy their lives and their music. I honestly doubt she was trying to say she hates skinny girls. I think she was trying to say she isn't going to try to be skinny for a man's benefit and that her mom said she should love her body no matter what size. Not all music has to be taken in its most literal sense.

Reading the lyrics, she's talking about photoshop and silicone and barbie dolls, not women who are thin or have thigh gaps.

She's saying that you don't need a "spot healing tool" or surgery to be beautiful.

Indeed! Agreed

I found it more offensive that she was banging on about how "big" she was when she's pretty much just a normal size. I would even call her thin if we bear in mind the fact that people do look bigger on camera.

My thoughts may not be the popular opinion, but here they are: If someone is skinny, cool. If someone is curvy and they are happy with that, cool. Someone writes a song about being skinny, I don't cry about it. Someone writes a song how being curvy is in, I don't care. A song doesn't dictate how I feel about myself...if someone prefers a girl skinnier than me that's their choice, it doesn't bother me. If someone wants a girl that is 500lbs, okay go for it. Basically I don't let a song, a persons opinion, societies view of beauty etc, dictate how I feel. It's actually kind of amusing that a song can make someone so angry. Lol

What about boobs? How do you feel about those?

Well I like them of course! I like them all!

"I'm bringing booty back
Go ahead and tell them skinny *****es that
No I'm just playing. I know you think you're fat
But I'm here to tell ya
Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top"

god forbid the influx of songs recently to make bigger girls feel good about themselves. if i'm reading these lyrics correctly, the only figure she puts down is a "stick figure silicone Barbie doll" and she says she's just playin after saying the phrase "skinny *****es" (which, when i was growing up, had a good connotation anyway) right before telling everyone they're perfect. i realize body shaming is terrible in all forms, but for bigger girls who are brought up in a society where thin is the thing to be and the media is incessantly representing only thin people, just let us enjoy the few songs recently that make us feel good about our size.

your edited lyrics are kind of hilarious to me. obviously, they would be considered offensive because a size 22 is not something society/the media portrays as desirable (nor is that even a size that almost any normal clothing stores sell?? so how do you think a size 22 girl would feel about that?). fat girls have ALWAYS been the oppressed body type, with every magazine headline telling us how to lose weight fast and get "toned" and be skinny and simply the fact that fat girls can't even shop in regular clothing stores because everything is too small. this is just ridiculous. the hate over this is so silly to me. i feel like some people who are constantly represented everywhere (like thin people, which you might not even realize, because you are so very used to it) suddenly feel so offended when something doesn't represent them.

she's saying she's not a size two, and she's not skinny etc etc and she's proud of herself ANYWAY, because those are DESIRABLE things to be. she's not saying they are BAD things to be. she is saying that she is proud of herself and her body, DESPITE her body not being what most people consider ideal. i truly cannot understand how people are so offended by a song that literally tells its audience that every inch of them is perfect.

This is why I listen to classic rock and country music. Both genres don't care what shape you are as long as you have a vagina and don't look like a foot.

Ok, so I know what country music is, but what is "classic rock" anyway?

The Kinks - "Destroyer" is a great example of a "classic rock" song.

I made the mistake of listening to the radio last week and heard this song for the first time and it's been stuck in my head ever since. This is why I listen to death metal. No body shaming, they just talk about brutally killing people of all shapes and sizes.

Plus I don't get her annoying voice stuck in my head. Make it stop, please.

I like you...........Papa Roach, Last Resort rocks. And believe it or not, I've never wanted to kill myself.

Rock on! :flowerforyou:

Thank you, but Papa Roach isn't death metal. It's rock. I'm talking about Suffocation, Deicide, Pestilence, Death, Mortitian, and of course, Cannibal Corpse. Mortitian has a song called "Hacked up for a Barbecue" or Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face" that was in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. They are brutal with crazy fast speed playing. I don't want to kill or eat people and I'm not into necrophilia, but at least they accept every body shape, size, race, gender. Bless their little cotton socks. lol Oh and you can't understand they lyrics because they growl them pretty much. There is actually a band that uses their dog's growling in it. lol

This is why I listen to classic rock and country music. Both genres don't care what shape you are as long as you have a vagina and don't look like a foot.

but fat bottom girls make the rockin' world go 'round

I'll bet you like your "bicycle, bycycle"

Now That song is in my head....

She doesn't once tear down anyone in that song. Are you mishearing lyrics or do you just interpret things in a certain way so you can rant?

I love you, but I too found this song to be catchy, but yes, tearing down smaller girls. I actually posted a blog about the same exact thing a while back. So did many other women who aren't curvy and also found this song catchy.

If "every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top" is tearing people down sign me up to be blasted next.

not that part, obviously. It is ok if we don't all see everything the same exact way. I still love all of my friends.

All I see are a bunch of people judging people, then saying, "But not to judge."

Lol..I love this song..not because of the lyrics but because it makes me want to dance. So buy the karoke version and shake ya tailfeather !

My thoughts:

Someone is HANGRY. Probably a lot of people based on the posts I've read. You really shouldn't let people get you all distraught over their jealousy. It can't hurt you unless you let it. Haters gonna hate. Just ignore them. There will always be haters no matter what. People hate on chubby chicks as much as skinny chicks get hated. For different reasons, but it's still hate.

Self-acceptance is what young girls need. So I think the message is ok. Does it go too far? Probably. The parts I can't stand the most are the girl's voice (she needs a voice-box removal) and hearing my 13-year-old sister-in-law singing with it on the radio. Singing about men groping women's butts in bed. Nothing better than a child singing about screwing and knowing that's what they singing about. She is going to be pregnant soon, I has a feeling... But that's the mom in me talking, I guess.

Turn off the song if you hates it. I want to stab my ear-drums with a pencil, but thankfully I can think enough to turn it off before I get so desperate.



Yep...that covers it.

And also, I'm still 45 lbs from my goal, but I got catcalled yesterday. Apparently, some men do indeed like big (but not monstrous) butts.

I made the mistake of listening to the radio last week and heard this song for the first time and it's been stuck in my head ever since. This is why I listen to death metal. No body shaming, they just talk about brutally killing people of all shapes and sizes.

Plus I don't get her annoying voice stuck in my head. Make it stop, please.

I like you...........Papa Roach, Last Resort rocks. And believe it or not, I've never wanted to kill myself.

Rock on! :flowerforyou:

Thank you, but Papa Roach isn't death metal. It's rock. I'm talking about Suffocation, Deicide, Pestilence, Death, Mortitian, and of course, Cannibal Corpse. Mortitian has a song called "Hacked up for a Barbecue" or Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face" that was in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. They are brutal with crazy fast speed playing. I don't want to kill or eat people and I'm not into necrophilia, but at least they accept every body shape, size, race, gender. Bless their little cotton socks. lol Oh and you can't understand they lyrics because they growl them pretty much. There is actually a band that uses their dog's growling in it. lol

I knew this was coming as soon as I read that...

Marilyn Monroe was a 14 on average....
Victorian Age women were an average of 14...
All the best breast sizes are on 14....

14 is perfect...

Marilyn Monroe had a 24-inch waist. My 30-inch waist is a modern size 8.

Marilyn Monroe was a 14 on average....
Victorian Age women were an average of 14...
All the best breast sizes are on 14....

14 is perfect...

Marilyn Monroe was a size 10, max.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmdress.asp

Yeah, people forget that sizing changes over the years. My mother bought an old WW2 WAC uniform from a thrift shop. She's a size 6/8, and I think the uniform was a size 12 or 14 and it fit her perfectly.