"Pop" Music Queens

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This paper explains that the songs. "Genie in a Bottle," sung by Christina Aguilera, "Boom, Boom", sung by Britney Spears. and "Naughty Girl", sung by Beyonce Knowles. are among the "Top 40" pop songs that have heavy sexual references, which many people may not even notice. The author points out that all three pieces have blood-pumping music and a sort of seductive melody, which seem to inspire highly sexually suggestive movement. The paper concludes that, while there's nothing particularly wrong with sex or with art that displays sex, it seems strange that "Top 40" songs that are played everywhere, especially by teenagers, would be quietly pumping in lyrics about mutual masturbation, prostitution, and orgies.

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"Aguilera's character seems to maintain a temporary morality, saying "that don't mean I'm gonna give it away" to which she has already added "baby, baby, baby" as an indication that she is already losing control of her body. This loss of control is soon made explicit as she says "My body's saying let's go"(assumably to "give it away"). That this is sexual is so obvious that, when Disney wanted to show the video to children, they required Aguilera to change the lyrics to "My friends are saying let's go." as if to pretend that she was going to leave, rather than going to have sexual intercourse."

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