"All About That Bass" Rant

Yeah it's pretty clear, I ain't no size twenty-two
But I can shake it, shake it like I'm supposed to do
'Cause I got that thigh gap that all the boys chase
All the right angles in all the right places
I see the big girls chugging their soda pop
We know that **** so wrong
Come on now, make it stop
If you got no cellulite, come show it off
'Cause that type of body's perfect from the bottom to the top

Yeah, my momma she told me you better watch your size
boys like their hands to touch when they hold you at night
You know those big meaty badonka-donks just don’t belong
So, if that's what's you're into
Then go ahead and move along
I'm bringing skinny back
Go ahead and tell them chubby *****es Hey! (No, I'm just playing)
I know you think you're scrawny,
But I'm here to tell you that,
Thin girls are perfect from the bottom to the top

Are you offended at the above message? Uh, you should be! If these lyrics were the ones played on the radio, can you imagine the veritable ****storm the artist and radio stations playing it would be in for?? Furious calls would be rolling in for miles around, and the guilty artist would probably be shunned and blacklisted for like, ever.

WHY then, I ask you is it not only ok, but LAUDED for an artist to say the exact opposite? It’s ok to broadcast that curvy girls are prettier and more “chased” by boys, but absolutely verboten to say that skinny girls are more desirable? Lolwut?

I’ll give you the answer: it’s not ok. Ever. It is one thing to support girls of all sizes and celebrate out differences, but that is not what Meaghan Trainor is really saying. She’s pretty much saying that thin girls are not as attractive to men as thick girls. (See the original lyrics here: http://www.metrolyrics.com/all-about-that-bass-lyrics-meghan-trainor.html)

Hey, Meaghan? Listen up, dollface: It is not and never will be socially acceptable to uplift and empower one body type by dragging another type through the mud. It is petty and hateful, and smacks of sour grapes. Now, whether that is truly the case or not remains to be seen. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she just does a p*ss-poor job of remaining unbiased and fair.

Don’t think her original lyrics are offensive? Show me ONE hypothetical situation in which calling a girl a “stick-figure silicone Barbie-doll” would not be inappropriate, impolite, or a just plain awful thing to say, and I will donate $200 cash to the charity of your choice. "Oh, but she was just kidding!" :noway: Really? Ok. Why don't I go around publicly insulting people, and tacking on "I'm just playin'!" at the end, and see how well that plays out for me.

What about those girls who are naturally very thin? Do you think they like to hear that girls who are naturally bigger are automatically sexier than they are? What sort of message are you sending to them? Saying your size doesn't dictate your self-worth goes both ways. And last time I checked, men love ALL types of bodies. To claim that males only prefer one type is ignorant at best, exclusive and hurtful at worst. I know that there is tremendous pressure perpetuated by the media to be thin and have their idea of a “perfect body”, but the right way to fight it is NOT by flipping 180° and bashing the body types that appear in magazines.

<---This is me. I worked HARD to get to this level of leanness, but before anyone jumps on me saying “it’s easy for you to say! You’re already thin!” I’ll let you in on a little secret: I do not look like this 365 days a year. In fact, there was only about a 7 day period where I looked anything like this, and it took MONTHS of boring dieting and hours and hours of miserable cardio to get to it. These pictures were taken by a talented photographer in a professional studio with flattering light. I was tanned up all to heck and smeared in glycerin to emphasize muscle striations. The same goes for every model on the cover of Cosmo and People magazine. Don’t be jealous of them, it’s not real. This is not me on a normal day, and I worked harder than anyone I personally know to get there. So for someone to refer to me as a “skinny b*tch”, however indirectly, well, I just dare you to say that to my face, because I’ll rip your head off. You have no comprehension what I went through to achieve this. Step off.
So the girls who work very, VERY hard to maintain a healthy weight, or lost a lot of weight and feel great about their accomplishments? …Way to throw cold water in their faces, by telling them that what they worked is worth balls, because they were already perfect!
You do not have to be a size two. There is no standard for beauty!! You do not have to be thin, or have a thigh gap, or a perfectly flat stomach to be attractive. All women have worth. But I was raised to believe that there is ALWAYS room for improvement. You should never hate your body, no matter its shape or size. But neither should you should be complacent or lazy. My dad taught me that goals to work toward are what keeps you happy and well-rounded. There is a fine line between loving your body and what it can do for you, and not caring to improve yourself.

{Disclaimers: I do not believe one word of the above parody lyrics. I wrote them to illustrate the cattiness and outright ridiculousness of lording one body type over another. Some lines are admittedly slightly exaggerated. Please don’t misunderstand this post to mean I am saying thin girls are “better than” thick girls or anything of that nature. I am simply pointing out the hypocrisy and double standard in the lyrics of Meaghan Trainor’s original lyrics}

Thoughts? Does anyone share my feelings toward this song? I think that Meaghan’s heart was most likely in the right place when writing this song, but her delivery absolutely sucked, big time.

Wow loads of replies already on this thread haha!

There's obviously a couple of flaws with the song:
* The whole deeming good enough for men by "having enough booty" for them
* The body shaming of the slimmer build etcetc

But what you've got to take into consideration is minority here. I'm only 22 years old, but all my life I've been told via all kinds of media that the skinnier frame is the sexiest, the prettiest, the one that attracts people to you. So for me personally, it's nice to see some loving for bigger frames. I'm sick of hearing that fat people are unhealthy and unattractive.

To contradict a point of mine, why SHOULDN'T a larger woman be deemed attractive by males? What is so wrong about that?
All types of women have a right to be as sexual as they like and be attractive to anyone - and that includes larger women. It's not promoting obesity because if you want to play that card then singing about slim girls promotes eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia.

And I'm going to honest here, I'm really annoyed that slim people are crying over a couple of songs that promote the fuller figure considering they've had generations/decades of support.

I agree the term "skinny b*****s" is very inappropriate and undo's years of feminist work. But to continue to move forward in feminism, why can't we show support for all frames?

the theory is that it would not be appropriate for slender girls to sing about being skinny and to refer to other ladies as "fat bi#$es"

or for slender women to make songs about big ghetto booties....

Somehow it is ok for larger people to celebrate being larger and to insult smaller people but not ok for smaller people to be insulting to bigger people

ALL ABOUT THAT BASS and ANACONDA

are sucky songs promoting poor health and lifestyles and should not be taken seriously

Funny you brought this up. I was just thinking when I heard it how sick I am of the whole "fat acceptance" trend that's taking place. Loving yourself is one thing, but being encouraged to stay unhealthy and "fine the way you are" is only increasing the problem.
$.01 $.01

I AGREE! I am sick of the acceptance too! For me to change my lifestyle was to realise that its awful way of living to be overweight or obese (and by awful I mean an ungrateful, selfish, lazy, and ignorant). Personally I had to get to the point where I was disgusted with myself and how I looked. I know that may sound extreme but it was too easy to ignore how I looked and felt, not look in the mirror and try not to think about how unhealthy I was. It seems like there are two kinds of media on weight, that its not okay to be underweight and that its okay to be large but where's the highlight on being healthy?! Americans choose to ignore that we're the fattest, most unhealthy country on earth.
There's a movie coming out called Fed Up and I can't wait for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUbvOwwfWM

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.