I just picked up my remote and ritually flicked through the channels - pausing at MTV to see being played (yet again for the umpteenth time) the new Destiny's Child video, Soldier.
Now I find this song nothing short of hilarious - we have an abating R&B group(headed by Blackgirl-turned-Barbie, Beyonce Knowles) who previously built a very public reputation as good, strong Christian women doing what can only be described as an image U-turn.
Now, if you actually listen to the lyrics of this latest single - you will hear these girls tell us that they want a "Soldier", which connotes to a deviant street hoodlum, who carries big things (a not so clever reference to genitalia)and whose "status [is] hood" - Oh dear so I guess Intelligent Gentlemen with decent jobs who pay their own bills-bills-bills wont do anymore eh? - Judging by that thing who does a Rap (sounding closer to an Asthma attack) in the middle of the song looking like a Crack-Fiend, I guess the answer is.. NO.
So the former God-fearing and sophisticated Destiny's Child bleat their hearts
out about how bad they need a 'Soldier to "take care" (or to put it bluntly, to FUCK them.
Im not trying to act all holier-than-thou but surely you must see the hypocritical irony of all of this??!!
Independant Women indeed?!......(Throw your hands up at me!!!)
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