♪ (rock music) ♪

"Dear future husband, here's a few things

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

I already know what song it is!

Oh, pssh!
I already know.

This is Meghan Trainor's new song.

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

I'm really bad with love songs.

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

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

for the rest of your life.

She's telling her future husband

there's some lines that can't be crossed

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

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

And don't forget 
the flowers every 'anniversaray'".

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

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

so she wants him to show her his love.

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

That they deserve to have done for them.

She probably works hard in the house,

doing wife things.

She totally deserves it.

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

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

Buying groceries, buy-buying what you--"

Oh, wait!

Is this that song by Meghan Trainor?

This is the one that's causing 
all the problems,

all the sexist problems.

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

That sounds very familiar.

Everyone has their own definition 
of a perfect wife.

"I'll be a perfect wife".

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

That sounds so stereotypical!

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

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

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

buying you your groceries."

No! That's not--

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

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

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

In the past, the wife would already be home

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

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

They would just sit at home
and bake and cook and clean.

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

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

The last lyric kinda throws me off
because she said

she'll be the perfect wife.

What if he wants some apple pie that day?

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

I'm confused because at first I thought

maybe she was saying that 
she would buy all the groceries,

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

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

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

Sing along with me, 
sing-sing along with me."

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

She's not gonna be that stereotype.

I'm feeling a Taylor Swift vibe from this.

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

but she's talented in other ways.

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

of other things that I can do really well.

If she's alluding to these stereotypes

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

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

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

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

Women do get a little bonkers sometimes

and I think she's admitting it here.

That's kind of messed up.

That's not really how 
a relationship should function.

It's kinda contradictory now.

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

but now I want you treat me like a lady.

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

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

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

She's talkin' about sex!

I would want to marry whoever that was.

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

hanky panky! (laughs)

That is a terrible thing to say
to girls and women!

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

She's literally teaching girls to be easy.

She must be very insecure.

Instead of relying 
on the husband for happiness,

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

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

M'kay.

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

"Why disagree?
Why, why disagree?"

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

Now she sounds completely psycho.

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

Just stop trying to argue with me.

"Dear future husband,
make time for me."

"Don't leave me lonely,

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

What?

That sounds like the start 
of a Lifetime movie,

where you keep the husband hostage.

I thought this song was super cute,

but now it just sounds threatening.

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

This dude is not gonna 
own any pair of pants.

Priorities being set straight here.

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

It's all about me now!"

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

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

Here's him and here's her.

Like, it's off screen.

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

This bitch is honestly 
high maintenance as [bleep]!

She's never gonna get married.

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

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

Open doors for me 
and you might get some kisses.

Don't have a dirty mind."

Wait, I'm confused.

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

(gasps) Ooh!

It's a rhyming thing, right?

She's sexual.

Oh my god!

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

That's so clever though!

And I thought this was a cute song.

"Future husband, better love me right."

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

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

Dear Meghan Trainor, 
that is not the kind of love

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

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

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

for some sex in return.

Him doing things for her, and then sex.

That whole song was 
like a huge, deep meaning

about how our gender roles
are being recognized

as just sex and material.

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

but also it kind of has 
no standards for herself.

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

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

it has bad meanings.

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

Some people say that the lyrics 
are sexist and reinforcing

old gender stereotypes.

- What do you think?
- Yes, sir!

This is literally everything 
we are trying to reverse.

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

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

nice things for her.

And, like, that's just messed up.

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

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

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

No.

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

Future Husband by Taylor Swift.

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

Dear Future Husband?

Is it Meghan Trainor?

Meghan Trainor, Dear Future Husband.

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

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

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

What?!

Oh! No, her?

Meghan Trainor-- 
don't care for Meghan Trainor.

Oh, okay.

Wait, that's All About That Bass girl?

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

which is mostly praised 
for sending a positive message

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

is perpetuating sexist stereotypes.

What are your thoughts 
about Meghan Trainor's choice

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

was kinda just all about her butt too.

It was still kind of sexual.

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

In a sense, she's kind of being sarcastic

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

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

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

so it's objectifying.

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

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

"Wow, this is terrible."

She was providing such positive things

like body positivity and just being 
comfortable with yourself.

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

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