To find Alexandra Burke's Video really hypocritical and sexist?

[JamesTheCat]

I know I'm going to sound like Mary Whitehouse on acid, but AIBU to be offended by the new Alexandra Burke video?

I know I don't have to watch it, I just have to turn the t.v. over when it comes on, etc, etc. BUT her new video for 'Broken Heels' takes the biscuit - she's singing all about being able to do things better than men - so you would think quite a pro women song - but does this while her and a crowd of other young, slim ladies in skin tight all in one not-far-off leotards and high heels gyrate and wiggle everything they have got and more.

I just find it really, really sexist, more because they are singing a 'girl power' song, yet still having to succumb to turning it on for men.

Alex Burke became famous through X Factor watched by legions of young girls. It's so disappointing if these girls have followed Alexandra's career til now, what a poor role model

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This is said video.

Unfortunately most videos seem to be like this these days - yes I know I sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but in my day years ago female pop stars wore clothes, not underwear, in their videos! (Madonna excepted, perhaps). Now, as well as the male rap stars surrounding themselves by bikini-clad beauties, the female stars themselves seem to think that in a woman being sexy is more important than being talented.

yeah it's shite and she has a big nose (sorry)

Meh, I can't take any 'girl power' crap seriously. I am very cynical.

I'd be more concerned about the camel's hoof she's got going on with that outfit.

YANBU. If it was a man saying he could do anything better than a woman there would be outcry!
Equilty should be is a two way street.

Totally agree with you Planet, I think this one sticks with me as it's so sad. This should be a song that makes females feel strong and confident, yet they are still having to wear bikinis under their skin tight all in ones to sell records. What kind of message does that send out? I'm just glad I grew up in the eighties, when there was much less pressure to be so sexualised.

Fair point, kinnies. What would be the equivalent do you reckon? A gangsta rapper prancing about in a g-string singing about his ho's?

Yes, apparently we can do anything in broken heels and with our fanjos hanging out.... What a great example to set!

totally agree trifle was aghast first time I saw it that such a wardrobe malfunction would be allowed to occur .

On a serious note tho, no yanbu, agree with you. Have always considered myself to be v liberal minded and "live and let live" but am becoming more uppity (for want of a better word) about these sprts of issues since having dd. Now she's 3 she's becoming a lot more aware and copies everything and it's for this reason that the music channel stays off as I'm concerned about the oversexualised images and the misrepresenation of women in them as equivalent to porn starts quite frankly. DD so impressionable and I don't want her to develop the idea that this is how you have to be as a woman to be a owrthwhile person. Makes me quite

Some of the rap videos are disgusting imo (Mary Whitehouse alert) in their prtrayal of women.

The video is shite. Utter shite.

Lol youre all mad!!!!!

I cant believe you think this is 'sad' and are 'offended' by it.
I am offended by extremists wanting to protest in wooton bassett and am sad about so many things I could go on all day.

But Alexanda Burke's video does neither.

FWIW I am 6 weeks post two major surgeries and I cant wait ti get back in a bikini. Its my goal to be in one for summer holidays. Not for dh, or for men, but for me, so I can look fab and remember I survived and Im lovely!

You really need to get a life and remember that most women dont dress for their men or men in general. If I had AB's figure right now Id be prancing about in skin tight outfits and bikinis (oh yeah if I was her age and famous too wouldnt look much good on the school run)

Why does being confident, sexy and out there equate to being a poor role model ? Do you think that in order to prove their equality, women should dress in a cardi and pearls ? Being a strong independant woman is about dressing however you want to surely ?

I agree with Kinnie, that equality shouldn't involve knocking down men, but raising women up.

Obviously, there are much much more serious issues out there, but it is waring that this is so common in the music business, the women in bikinis/naked/underwear whereas men get to wear what they want. Just watch 10 minutes of MTV. You would kind of hope that about 100 years into feminism (sorry if this wrong on dates, it's a guess) things would be different. Like it or not, it seems women's bodies and their covering is one of the biggest battlegrounds of the 21st century, be it covering it up or exposing.

I'm not going to watch it but no, YANBU. I can't stand this sort of tosh.

The thing is, I can choose not to watch it.....but when I went into two different petrol stations last night, I couldn't choose not to have copies of Nuts magazine in front of my eye level, , totally impossible to avoid.

It's all the same IMO (videos, magazines etc) but I like having the choice of not having it thrust in my face.

Agree sassy, that a woman doesn't have to be in pearls and jeans or whatever to be strong and independent and can wear what she wants, but in the world of the music industry, the only option is poncing about in your pants. Apparently.

I couldn't watch past a minute and a half. It was terrible. All finger pointing and pouting.

all videos are the same. lady gaga has practically nothing on. as does cheryl. the saturdays and pussycat dollls wear nothing.
I LOVE AB in her red boots with the black leather and her red top in Bad Boys. I want her outfit. Not QUITE the figure for it, but hey.

Her videos don't offend me. a bit naff. but so is most music these days. I am not bothered by these videos. surprised you are.
we all know its not good role model stuff for young girls. name me something that is, thats popular these days.

If she is English, why do a video playing NFL. Do many people here follow NFL? What is with the stupid talking at the beginning anyway.
Eh too much effort to watch more. Not offended but it certainly did not hold my attention.

i don't mind women looking sexy in videos. I don't think that video is sexy - they just look silly. It is absurd and demeaning.

lou - because Sy Cowell wants her to "break" the American market and the video gives a visual "coat hook" on which to put this view.

It is the sheer NAFFNESS of this video that makes it shite.

Good luck with your recovery Mosschops, I also can't wait to be able to fit into a bikini again soon and hope that you reach your goal

I also agree that there are so many other more important things to be worrying about, but as a mother and an auntie to a young neice, I worry that she or other impressionable girls will see this kind of thing, think it's o.k to go out wearing a similar-ish kind of outfit, maybe behave in a similar way (not break into a song and dance routine, but maybe act more promiscuously) and get into real trouble because of it. I think it's easy to forget how vulnerable young people are - not to mention how much pressure is on them to behave in a more sexual way, etc.

I would have liked to have seen Alexandra, as an independant, modern young woman, stand up for being strong and sexy without looking 'cheap', not having to pander to men's ideals. Maybe I am wrong though.

And lets not forget that she will have a lot of young fans who follow her from her X Factor days.

She's another example of why Emily Pankhurst and friends should possibly not have bothered fighting for women's equality?