Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines [Feminist Parody] "Defined Lines"

Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus Dear Miley, I wasn't going to write this letter, but today i've been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your Wrecking Ball video was designed to be similar to the one for Nothing Compares … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love. I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos. Nothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited, and it is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women, for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent.I am happy to hear I am somewhat of a role model for you and I hope that because of that you will pay close attention to what I am telling you.

News | ‘Blurred Lines’ song banned by Union | LS Leeds University Union has taken the decision to ban the song “Blurred Lines” from its bars and clubs. The move follows the decision from Edinburgh University’s Student Union to ban the Robin Thicke song earlier this month. The Union’s Education office, Alice Smart, told LS: “I’m proud that we’ve taken the decision to stop playing ‘Blurred Lines’ in our bars and clubs because the song undermines real and dangerous issues around consent. Just because the song has been commercially successful doesn’t mean we have to play it knowing that it offends a high proportion of our students.” The move has proven controversial with some students taking to the social network to question whether other songs would be banned. Others were more supportive of the move. Giovanni Da Costa

Blurred Lines Parody - Lame Lines Sinead vs Miley round 3: “You are a danger to women” Fri 4th Oct, 2013 in Local News UPDATE 4/10, 5pm: Sinead O’Connor has written a third “open letter” to Cyrus on her Facebook page, asking for a public apology to herself and Amanda Bynes and threatening legal action if she fails to do so. Here’s O’Connor’s third open letter: Sinead O’Connor has written a second open letter to Miley Cyrus – and this one is certainly not in the spirit of “motherliness and with love”. She’s taken particular exception to Cyrus’ response to her original open letter, in which she warned about “the dangers of letting the “music business make a prostitute of you”. “Ms Cyrus has today posted tweets of mine which are two years old and which were sent when I was ill and seeking medical help,” O’Connor posted on Facebook. Here’s O’Connor’s second open letter: Cyrus has yet to respond, but has tweeted a link to her garish new website mileycyrus.com.

I'm Charlotte Church. And This Is How Women Are Routinely Demoralized by the Music Industry... The following speech was delivered at BBC 6 Music’s annual John Peel Lecture by Charlotte Church, who entered the music industry as a young teenager. Roughly 15 years later, her perspectives on the business have changed dramatically. “Thank you for coming to my lecture this evening. I’d like you to imagine a world in which male musicians are routinely expected to act as submissive sex objects. Picture Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z stripped down to a T-back bikini thong, sex kittin’ his way through a boulevard of suited-and-booted women for their pleasure. Or Britney Spears’ ex, Justin Timberlake, in buttocks-clenching hot pants writhing on top of a pink Chevy, explaining to an audience how he’d like to be their ‘Teenage Dream’. Before we all get a little too hot beneath the gusset, of course these scenarios are not likely to become reality, unless for comedy’s sake. It is a male-dominated industry, with a juvenile perspective on gender and sexuality. [audience laughter] He continued saying,