Lily Allen.

Lily Allen recently had a child and has since been having trouble with her weight; the media have branded her as 'fat' and she claims in a newspaper article that 'nobody's immune to the pressure to look thin'. She felt pressured to have cosmetic surgery after giving birth to both children, and this is what inspired her new video for 'Hard out here'. This is a video which is about the music industry and the media and how girls are pressured to look a certain way. In the article it tells us how this new video takes direct aim at music videos such as Robin Thicke's 'Blurred lines' featuring balloons spelling out 'Robin Thicke has a big dick' and 'Lily Allen has a baggy pussy.'
The lyrics tell the story of how young girls are expected to conform to society's expectations to look good. 'You should probably lose some weight, because we can't see your bones...It's hard out here for a bitch' shows the demand of young girls wanting to be thin because of famous people showing that this is how you should look.
Many people are attacking Lily Allen for her new video, claiming that it is racist and very hypocritical against her lyrics, because she is dancing with black women in bikini's provocatively who are twerking. She also uses suggestive banana consumption mocking Rihanna's 'rude boy' video. 'What I see is the black female body, anonymous and sexualised, grinding away to make the rent' said Suzanne Moore in the Guardian. Lily Allen responded with a tweet saying that it had nothing to do with race.
I believe that the message through the lyrics is quite obvious. Lily Allen uses words such as 'if you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood' and talks about weight and how women and girls are expected to be thin or good looking. People also believe that the music video is very hypocritical, however I disagree. Lily Allen herself is covered up even though she is surrounded by these girls and the difference is obvious.