New Song's of Meghan Trainor Is Just as Anti-Feminist as “All About That Bass”

Meghan Trainor's New Song  Is Just as Anti-Feminist as “All About That Bass” :

New Song's of Meghan Trainor Is Just as Anti-Feminist as “All About That Bass”

Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” has been stuck in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100—not to mention everyone’s head—for a few weeks now, giving us all a chance to contemplate its mixed messages. While the earworm is ostensibly about body positivity, Trainor disses “skinny bitches” and “stick figure[s]”—suggesting that not all bodies are worthy of pride. Trainor assures the adolescent girls who are presumably her target audience, “Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top,” but her support for this claim is that “boys like a little more booty”—perfection apparently depends on male approval. Despite the girl-power packaging, “All About That Bass” reinforces the idea that female bodies exist for men’s pleasure, and that being desired by a man is crucial to a woman’s self-worth. It says it’s all about that bass, but it seems it’s really all about the boys.

Meghan Trainor's New Song  Is Just as Anti-Feminist as “All About That Bass”

Even if you were willing to give Trainor the benefit of the doubt, her new single makes clear that the sexist, faux-feminist message of “All About That Bass” was no fluke. continue.

New Song's of Meghan Trainor Is Just as Anti-Feminist as “All About That Bass”