Hot on the heels of Katy Perrys ‘Roar’ music video; in which a tiger kills her male companion and she then goes on to demonstrate her independence by embodying the very thing that killed him- the tiger. To Taylor Swift’s music video ‘Blank Space’ which sees Swift bashing up her boyfriends and trying to kill them at times.
Now we have prominent pop diva Lorde graphically killing a man in her new music video ‘Disclosure’.
And what is most disturbing, Lorde admits she has had this fantasy since she was 18 and has envisioned doing this to real boyfriends. Scary.
So I am watching TV and noticed a lot of shows revolve around violence against men, which popular culture is ok with and nobody ever complains about. Sure you may easily dismiss it as an innocent action sequence against a faceless man- but isn’t that the whole point? That men are portrayed as these disposable things who we have no problem with depicting the death of for our entertainment. Isn’t this all kind of a little sick? I mean you always see this or that man being killed or attacked in some high octane action adventure drama; yet you never see women killed in similar circumstances. Usually when women are killed on TV they have at least been humanized before hand so we feel a loss when they die; yet with men we just see them as these dehumanized non-entities who are expected to be killed like worthless sacks of skin and bone, and we are conditioned to see this as normal and not feel any loss when they die.
And what makes this all the more worse is that everyone only focuses on violence against women; yet the majority of what we see on TV and in Movies is violence against men.
When you think about it, I mean really think about it, movie studios and television producers are profiting massively from depictions of violence against men. How is this acceptable in a modern humane society? Especially in the context of the way we deal with violence against women.
Kind of feeling like there is no hope for men in the world right now.
Why is it ok for women, lets remember these are GROWN WOMEN; to make such videos that celebrate, perpetuate and profit from depictions of violence against men; ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF HOW SOCIETY REACTS TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!
Why is this type of behavior by women celebrated, yet if the roles were reversed such a thing would be seen as domestic violence. Women can’t be strong and independent without resorting to hateful attacks against men- why is this? Why is it when women get into positions of power they have to behave in a way that is hateful to men?
I mean in the past women were not allowed to vote etc, but you never saw men actively running campaigns of hate towards women.
She’s made headlines for her new video clip for Magnets, her latest collaboration with Disclosure.
And it’s not hard to see why, with Kiwi singer Lorde, 18, showing off her darker side in the raunchy clip.
From kissing a married man to later setting him on fire, it seems Lorde has enjoyed playing an onscreen vixen, tweeting: ‘One of my life goals has always been “to one day play a hitgirl who pretends to seduce then burns alive douchey boyfriends (sic).”
Lorde, real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, first stuns on-screen in a plunging white dress as she cavorts around a party at a Los Angeles mansion.
She’s then seen canoodling with the married man as tensions appear to rise between him and his partner.
At one point the other woman turns near a window with what looks to have a black eye.
While it appears Lorde’s character is having an affair, she later dons a shiny leather trench coat as she looks at the wife, implying they are working together to avenge the man, before pushing him into the pool and setting him alight.
Lorde tweeted she not only played a ‘hitgirl’ but also implied the woman was the subject of domestic violence and that’s why her character was around.
‘The most important part of the video is when you see her black eye as she turns away at the window.. hope it all makes sense from that point,’ she tweeted.
She also retweeted a picture post about the black eye, which in part read: ‘That’s the point the whole video hinges on / takes it from being “an affair narrative” to being “dude’s girlfriend hired miss ella the hit girl to ‘seduce’ him then take him the F**K out. (sic)”
She then later thanked fans for ‘1,000,000 views in 1 day, thanks beejs (sic).’
Lorde is known for her hits including Royals and Tennis Court and was discovered at just 12-years-old.
She’s had a number of gongs under her belt, including Grammys and Billboard Music Awards.
She is currently dating long-term boyfriend James Lowe, who she has been with for more than two years.
source http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3255601/Lorde-seduces-married-man-sets-fire-embraces-dark-raunchy-new-video-Disclosure.html
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