Artists use music to fight for gender equality
Using music products to fight for women’s rights has been used by stars for a long time. Famous names such as Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande… are the leading representatives today. Famous feminist songs around the world often honor and affirm the role of women.
The new flag of the feminist movement
For Beyoncé, feminism is about being strong. She is aware of racism or gender inequality in American society, promotes the power of feminism and spreads that message through her compositions.
Her songs like “Me”, “Myself and I”, “Irreplaceable”… all honor strong, powerful and sexy women. “Run The World (Girls)” is the first single from the album “4” released in 2011 and became one of the hits (most listened to songs) that imprinted Beyoncé’s name, initially bringing her name to the world. She became a major feminist symbol of the era.
Singer Beyoncé
Beyoncé’s biggest contribution, in addition to asserting herself, is that she also contributed to changing the perception that “women are just supporting roles”. In later albums, the black female singer increasingly spoke strongly about painful social issues, promoting feminism and inequality with people of color. The album “Lemonade” is based on the journey of self-discovery and healing of pain for every woman, especially women of color.
Not only did she contribute to bringing women’s rights to the throne, she also contributed to narrowing the racial gap and bringing black culture to America. In the past, white people were always proud of their Pop music, until Beyoncé appeared and spread R&B everywhere in the world with the songs “Crazy in love” and “Baby boy”.Not only singing, Beyonce also works in many other fields such as humanitarian work, gender equality or fashion. Chime for Change – A charity organization aimed at women and girls co-founded by Beyoncé – has launched the “Stand In Formation” campaign to call on fans to donate to education and hunger eradication funds. reduce poverty and promote gender equality.
According to Beyoncé, campaigns against racism and calling on men to stand up to protect women and children need to be conducted more frequently worldwide.
Singer Katy Perry
Dubbed the creative queen of music videos, Katy Perry’s created products such as “Part Of Me”, “Roar”, “Hot N Cold”, “If We Ever Meet Again” always attract quite a lot of attention. attracts a lot of attention because of its unique style, unique taste and the profound meaning it brings.
From messages about life to feminist declarations, Katy Perry’s MVs always promise to bring viewers an extremely satisfying experience with an even and consistent combination of colors and images. Because of this, the female artist’s music has won a lot of favor from viewers and experts.
And Ariana Grande has received many awards and 22 Guinness World Records throughout her career. She is always ready to protect the LGBT community and women’s equal rights. In 2019, Ariana Grande impressed many people when she decided to use all the proceeds from her concert in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) for the Planned Parenthood center amid a wave of protests against anti-abortion laws. Abortion is rampant in some US states.
Singer Ariana Grande
Outside of music, Grande has used her social media to advocate for gender equality, racial equality, and LGBT rights. By mid-2018, singer Ariana Grande officially became a new to the feminist movement. From “No Tears Left To Cry”, audiences can see Ariana Grande coming of age in her music.
“God Is A Woman” also became the focus of the media with the MV honoring the power of women, the strongest message the female singer sent to the public about equality and praising women during this era. new era. And “Positions” is a song that holds the top 1 position on the music charts of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The song was well received for promoting the spirit of feminism. In the MV, the singer creates a powerful and strong female president.
Singer Alicia Keys
With this same point of view, Alicia Keys made her mark with the song “Girl on Fire”. Through the song, she wants to empower women around the world and inspire them to fight for basic rights, live true to themselves and be proud of their unique beauty.
Break all standards
Over the years, the name Taylor Swift has always been mentioned by the public as a symbol of strength and constant effort. She always releases quality music products and leaves a deep impression on the music-loving community despite many difficulties and challenges.
Singer Taylor Swift
“Country music princess” Taylor Swift sings about feminism and the strength when women unite. She has conveyed many messages about feminism over the years. She fought for women’s rights and especially gave a voice to women around the world.
“1989” – The album is named after the year Taylor was born – is a statement about who she is. The female singer also expressed her political views, spoke out about the unequal treatment of women and honored individual identity. She openly expressed her love desires, fears, feelings of loneliness and political views, making “Lover” her most accomplished album in recent years.
Singer Lady Gaga
Having been sexually assaulted and speaking out to protect women and harassed students, Lady Gaga is one of the symbols for women who constantly rise up against social injustice. Lady Gaga’s feminism lies in her lyrics and clothing style. Lady Gaga always clearly shows her personality and perspective to everything around her. She frankly and strongly expressed them to the outside clearly, coherently and without fear.
When talking about Lady Gaga, audiences always remember the eccentric, quirky and somewhat “shocking” style that has become her trademark. She admitted that she was bisexual, sang songs supporting the LGBT community, wore high heels up to 50 cm, breaking the norms of fashion.
She became an ambassador for movements fighting for equal rights of the LBGT community. “Born this way”, “Alejandro” are all meaningful songs that Lady Gaga wants to send to people of the third gender who are struggling with society’s discriminatory views.
The song “Til It Happens To You” is in the documentary The Hunting Ground, written by Lady Gaga herself and female musician Diane Warren as a sympathy for victims of sexual abuse in universities and the community. students fight for the rights of victims.
The lyrics of “Free Woman” or the songs in the 2020 album “Chromatica” are pieces of Lady Gaga’s manifesto about women’s journey to find rights and equality.
