Lily Allen released a new music video earlier this month, and the only thing I can think is, "where's all her negative attention?" I don't like Miley Cyrus, and I do think she deserved the backlash she got from her interactions with the black backup dancers during her VMA performance and "We Can't Stop" video. But c'mon guys, what about Lily Allen? Where's her heat?
In her video for "Hard Out Here," which blatantly mocks Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," Allen has black backup dancers twerking, wearing thongs, and dancing on a Bentley. These women are wearing fewer clothes than those in Miley's video and are doused in champagne as they rub themselves and twerk. Why is this ok? Because black women twerk and such in rap and hip hop videos?
Can you imagine if Rihanna or Nicki Minaj released a video with white women wearing next to nothing as they twerk with champagne poured on them? FOX News would certainly freak out, but I'm sure so would the rest of white society. It's absolutely disgusting that it's only ok for white people to do this. Sure Miley got some heat, and hopefully Lily Allen will too, but that only encouraged people to watch the video and download the song. After all, "We Can't Stop" currently has over 2,281,000 downloads.
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