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♪ (rock music) ♪

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"Dear future husband, here's a few things

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you'll need to know if you wanna[br]be my one and only all my life."

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I already know what song it is!

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Oh, pssh![br]I already know.

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This is Meghan Trainor's new song.

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(exhales) Oh man, it's already tough.

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I'm really bad with love songs.

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It's like she's writing out a letter,[br]trying to say these are the things

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that you'll need to know [br]if you wanna be with me

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for the rest of your life.

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She's telling her future husband

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there's some lines that can't be crossed

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if they're gonna have [br]a successful relationship with each other.

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"Take me on a date,[br]I deserve it, babe.

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And don't forget [br]the flowers every 'anniversaray'".

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Babe, "anniversaray"?[br]That's how she rhymed it?

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If she's his wife, then obviously [br]they love each other,

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so she wants him to show her his love.

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They're saying these are the things [br]that have to be done for them.

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That they deserve to have done for them.

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She probably works hard in the house,

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doing wife things.

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She totally deserves it.

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It makes me think that they're [br]a little high maintenance.

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"'Cause if you treat me right,[br]I'll be the perfect wife.

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Buying groceries, buy-buying what you--"

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Oh, wait!

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Is this that song by Meghan Trainor?

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This is the one that's causing [br]all the problems,

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all the sexist problems.

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It's just a wife thing, I don't know.

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That sounds very familiar.

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Everyone has their own definition [br]of a perfect wife.

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"I'll be a perfect wife".

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I'll do kinda servantry kind of things[br]is what it sounds like.

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That sounds so stereotypical!

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Don't worry, babe.[br]I'll take care of the groceries!

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Like, you know what, babe?[br]You do the groceries!

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I don't agree with the definition, like,[br]this is, "Oh, I'll be the perfect wife

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buying you your groceries."

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No! That's not--

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If that's what being a wife means,[br]like, [bleep] marriage!

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"You got that 9 to 5 but, baby, so do I."

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"So don't be thinking I'll be home[br]and baking apple pies."

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In the past, the wife would already be home

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and food'd be ready by the time[br]he'd get home to be able to eat dinner.

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I feel like that was [br]the old-school view of a wife.

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They would just sit at home[br]and bake and cook and clean.

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It's the stereotype that women[br]are only here to be housewives,

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but no, she's got a nine-to-five job too.

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The last lyric kinda throws me off[br]because she said

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she'll be the perfect wife.

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What if he wants some apple pie that day?

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Does he just go to McDonald's and get it?

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I'm confused because at first I thought

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maybe she was saying that [br]she would buy all the groceries,

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but now she's saying, [br]"No, I'm gonna have a job

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so I'm not gonna do all the cooking."

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"I never learned to cook,[br]but I can write a hook.

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Sing along with me, [br]sing-sing along with me."

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She's trying to say she's [br]not like a normal girl.

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She's not gonna be that stereotype.

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I'm feeling a Taylor Swift vibe from this.

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She's not the typical wife [br]that's just gonna cook all the time,

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but she's talented in other ways.

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I might not fit that mold,[br]but there are a lot

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of other things that I can do really well.

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If she's alluding to these stereotypes

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of what the perfect wife is[br]and she never learned to cook,

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that's kind of breaking the stereotype[br]she's setting up.

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"You gotta know how [br]to treat me like a lady.

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Even when I'm acting crazy.[br]Tell me everything's alright."

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Women do get a little bonkers sometimes

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and I think she's admitting it here.

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That's kind of messed up.

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That's not really how [br]a relationship should function.

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It's kinda contradictory now.

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She's like, "I'm not gonna [br]be the stereotypical woman,

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but now I want you treat me like a lady.

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Like, I want you to treat me[br]like this stereotype."

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"Dear future husband, [br]if you wanna get that special lovin'

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tell me I'm beautiful each and every night."

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She's talkin' about sex!

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I would want to marry whoever that was.

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She wants to be told she's pretty[br]in exchange for, you know...

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hanky panky! (laughs)

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That is a terrible thing to say[br]to girls and women!

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Like, tell me I'm beautiful[br]and then you'll just get sex?!

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She's literally teaching girls to be easy.

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She must be very insecure.

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Instead of relying [br]on the husband for happiness,

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she needs to be her own person[br]and just find her own happiness.

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"Even if I was wrong,[br]you know I'm never wrong."

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M'kay.

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But you just-- you just said you're wrong.

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"Why disagree?[br]Why, why disagree?"

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Oh, why disagree?[br]'Cause you're a crazy bitch!

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Now she sounds completely psycho.

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There's no point in fighting[br]'cause I'm always right.

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Just stop trying to argue with me.

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"Dear future husband,[br]make time for me."

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"Don't leave me lonely,

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and know we'll never see[br]your family more than mine."

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What?

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That sounds like the start [br]of a Lifetime movie,

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where you keep the husband hostage.

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I thought this song was super cute,

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but now it just sounds threatening.

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She's trying to wear[br]all the pants in the relationship.

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This dude is not gonna [br]own any pair of pants.

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Priorities being set straight here.

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She's like, "You know what?[br]Screw your family, man.

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It's all about me now!"

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If my significant other told me this,[br]it would be over.

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This is the scale, right? It's even.

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Here's him and here's her.

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Like, it's off screen.

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This kind of [bleep] pisses me off so bad!

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This bitch is honestly [br]high maintenance as [bleep]!

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She's never gonna get married.

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Like, "Dear future husband,[br]that line is just irrelevant."

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"I'll be sleeping [br]on the left side of the bed.

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Open doors for me [br]and you might get some kisses.

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Don't have a dirty mind."

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Wait, I'm confused.

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"Open doors for me [br]and you might get some kisses..."

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(gasps) Ooh!

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It's a rhyming thing, right?

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She's sexual.

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Oh my god!

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So that's why she was saying,[br]"Don't have a dirty mind."

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That's so clever though!

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And I thought this was a cute song.

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"Future husband, better love me right."

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After all of this, [br]how she was like, "Screw you!"

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Now she's like...[br]"You know what? It's okay."

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Dear Meghan Trainor, [br]that is not the kind of love

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that is in any way, shape, or form right.

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(Finebros) What would [br]you say this song is about?

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A girl who wants a guy [br]to buy her a lot of things

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for some sex in return.

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Him doing things for her, and then sex.

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That whole song was [br]like a huge, deep meaning

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about how our gender roles[br]are being recognized

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as just sex and material.

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A crazy lady who wants a man [br]to do all these things for her,

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but also it kind of has [br]no standards for herself.

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Well, I've heard this song[br]and it's really catchy

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and I sing along to it,[br]but when I listen to the words

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it has bad meanings.

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(Finebros) This song's lyrics [br]has a lot of controversy.

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Some people say that the lyrics [br]are sexist and reinforcing

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old gender stereotypes.

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- What do you think?[br]- Yes, sir!

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This is literally everything [br]we are trying to reverse.

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It's just bringing back [br]the old negative stereotype on women.

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She's the prize to win[br]once he does all these

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nice things for her.

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And, like, that's just messed up.

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I don't think she made this song[br]to have people live these lifestyles.

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It's more like, "This is ridiculous.[br]We can't do this any more."

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(Finebros) Do you know [br]the song's artist and title?

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No.

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I don't know the title, but I have [br]a feeling it's Iggy Azalea.

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Future Husband by Taylor Swift.

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I'm just gonna assume the song[br]is called "Future Husband".

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Dear Future Husband?

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Is it Meghan Trainor?

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Meghan Trainor, Dear Future Husband.

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Dear Future Husband,[br]and it's by Meghan Trainor.

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(Finebros) It's called "Dear Future Husband",

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- by Meghan Trainor.[br]- I don't know who that is.

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What?!

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Oh! No, her?

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Meghan Trainor-- [br]don't care for Meghan Trainor.

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Oh, okay.

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Wait, that's All About That Bass girl?

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(Finebros) So Meghan Trainor also sang[br]the hit song All About That Bass,

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which is mostly praised [br]for sending a positive message

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about owning your body,[br]but now made a song some say

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is perpetuating sexist stereotypes.

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What are your thoughts [br]about Meghan Trainor's choice

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- of song lyrics?[br]- Well, I feel like All About Bass

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was kinda just all about her butt too.

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It was still kind of sexual.

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I don't think she's necessarily [br]the person in the song.

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In a sense, she's kind of being sarcastic

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'cause I feel like she's [br]making fun of the whole situation.

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It's kind like Nicki Minaj's song Anaconda,

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empowering women, but at the same time[br]they were twerking in thongs

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so it's objectifying.

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Got a good beat, so people are like,[br]"Wow, this is an amazing song."

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But then once you read [br]into the lyrics you're like,

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"Wow, this is terrible."

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She was providing such positive things

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like body positivity and just being [br]comfortable with yourself.

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She took ten steps forward[br]and she's taken 700 steps back.

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Thanks for watching another episode [br]of Lyric Breakdown on the React channel.

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