Does anyone else feel that Miss Trainor's "All About That Bass" is shaming towards thin people? I'm all for loving your body image and self confidence, but I feel we are confusing today's young adults. A 12yr old girl walks in to a supermarket and sees a "perfect" girl on the cover of a magazine. She goes home listening to songs like all about TB or Anaconda (which I highly disapprove of) on the radio. God only knows the abuse towards others she sees on the internet. I'm just asking if anyone shares the same view as I do.

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anonymous · Answer

I didn't mean to go all fortune cookie on y'all, but I just feel we should love ourselves and each other. I just needed to express my views (I don't have a twitter or any of that).
Thanks, and I truly hope no one gets offended.

anonymous · Answer

I didn't know where else to put this. Our class had a discussion on this earlier, so it's somewhat relevant I guess.

laurenmyers1098 · Answer

I definitely feel like the song shames thin people. I myself am quite thin naturally, and I just can't help it - it's in my genes. In the song, she's basically saying that I need to be curvy or thicker for a boy to love me. If it were the other way around, and a song said you need to be thin for a boy to love you/want to hold you, there would be so much backlash and hate towards it. I don't understand why so many people think "All About That Bass" is a great and body-positive song. It tells girls it's okay to be thicker or curvier, but if you're not, then boys won't want you. That's totally not fair to thin girls.

anonymous · Answer

That's exactly what I was thinking. I mean, society believes it to be perfectly fine to say these things in a song because it's all "topsy-turvy" so to speak. Megan is trying to be a beacon for self love, but honestly turn the lyrics around and the song would receive soo much hate.

laurenmyers1098 · Answer

I am totally in support of teaching girls that their bodies are beautiful and that they don't need to conform to the "beauty standards" of today. However, we shouldn't have to shame some body types to convince other body types that they're beautiful.

anonymous · Answer

That's not what she's saying though. She's saying that it's okay to be big or small in size boys will still like you. When she was in high school everybody made fun of her because she was big. So she is saying that you should be okay with who you are and that if they don't like too bad.

laurenmyers1098 · Answer

"She says, boys they like a little more booty to hold at night
You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll,"

That line is literally saying guys prefer curvy girls, which could bring down the confidence of thin girls.

laurenmyers1098 · Answer

I don't think it's a terrible song and I'm glad that there's actually a song, which is popular, that assures girls who aren't so thin that they are also beautiful. I don't think that referring to thin girls as "skinny featheres" is the right way to do that, though.

laurenmyers1098 · Answer

(side note, it changed the one word after "skinny" to featheres, but i think you know what is supposed to be there haha)

anonymous · Answer

I just think the song was ill worded. It's like she's saying "go curvy girls!" which is great, but the song also says "no one likes skinny chics". I just feel horrible knowing that somewhere there's a girl/guy struggling with bulimia (bc she's trying to fit the idea of "perfection". Then she's bombarded with a song that makes her feel bad about herself.

laurenmyers1098 · Answer

Yes, I completely agree. I think that, as I mentioned, some things or words could've been left out and it would still be a good song.

anonymous · Answer

I agree that she could've left out some words in the song. But that wasn't the point she was trying to make.