Drugs, Sex, Rock ‘N ‘Roll, and

From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Frank Sinatra and Brittany Spears, music has always been sexual. Pop music and Rock and Roll are especially sexual. Popular music in recent years has perpetuated sexism in young people by showing women as more submissive and sensitive than men.

While it may be argued that women have a more dominate place in the music industry then ever before, the same perception that women are more romantic and submissive than men holds steady. Brittany Spears is one female artist that adds to the continuance of sexism in popular music. By means of her provocative manner in her dress and lyrics, she becomes a symbol of sex as a transitory pleasure, much like a prostitute. Simon Frith in his essay “Rock and Sexuality” states, “The prostitute can be treated with a mixture of condescension and contempt, as someone without an autonomous sexuality” (264). In that sense she becomes the man’s desire without any fluency of her own. Therefore according to Frith, “Sex as self-expression remains the prerogative of the man; the woman is the object of his needs and

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