Popular music...Women & Sexiness

Todays popular music is all about misogyny, matrtialism, and murder. In most hip-hop music it refers to women as being bitches and disrespects women.  In music videos the women are always extremly skinny and beautiful.  You never see bigger or not so good looking women in a music video.  Younger girls may look at these videos and think this is the only way to look and try to look like the women on the videos.  I believe music videos is one of the sources that make younger girls feel so inscure about there bodies and go to dramatic lengths to be more like the women they see in videos.  Also the way women are refered to as, like bitches, younger girls may watch this and think that is okay when a man refers to them in that kind of manner.  I believe that popular music can suggest a lot of bad things and people can take them as a good thing and try to work towards what they see and hear in poular music. 

Hip-hop vs. Country

Hip-hop and country music are two very different genres.  Over the years the meaning of hip-hops songs has went from positive to negative.  There is a shock value and hip-hop is a lot about insulting other rappers.  Also hip-hop focuses on misogyny, materialism, and murder.  When listing to hip-hop songs its usually very hard to understand some of the lyrics.  Country on the other hand is very easy for regular people to relate to.  Country focuses on the present time and authenticity.  Country music is literally easy to understand and just by listing to it one time a person can know the words and what the song is about. Country is flexible meaning it can change shape and it is also reflexive meaning it comes from the listeners and being original is not prized.  Hip-hop and country music really don't have a lot of similarities but one thing they do have in common is they each tell some kind of story.  I believe they have very few similarities and are two very different genres.