Thank you. I’ll de-bunk a few other “sexist” lyrics too, hopefully you don’t mind.
The idea of She’s Kinda Hot as a song is multiple people being pressured into fitting society’s standards, but ultimately allowing themselves to face criticism and being okay with being different.
So the lyrics “My girlfriend’s bitchin’ cause I always sleep in/She’s always screaming when she’s calling her friends/She’s kinda hot though”, when you take into account the music video, aren’t at all meant to be misogynistic. The idea is that a boy has this girlfriend who is constantly shaming him, complaining about how he lives his life, but he thinks it’s okay just because she’s attractive. This is in reference to how emotional abuse and abuse against males are constantly ignored, and that dating attractive women is encouraged, so when the two are mixed together it results in a boy stuck in an emotionally draining relationship because society isn’t acknowledging those issues. So the lyric really isn’t sexist, but is rather pointing out both misogyny (how you should date a woman based on her looks) and misandry (not recognizing domestic abuse against men) within 20-23 words. Quite impressive actually.
Heartbreak Girl. Many people assume this song to be about a guy complaining about the friendzone, which it is, but in a different way. If you listen to the lyrics, it’s about a guy’s female friend who is emotionally wrecked by a guy who continuously mistreats her, breaks up with her, but then lures her back in. In the chorus, there’s a line that states: “I could take away your hurt, heartbreak girl.” They aren’t complaining about the friendzone because they want to date her, but rather because they want to help her escape an emotion-damaging relationship.
Good Girls. I can’t really pin-point why it sounds sexist at first, it just does. But once you watch the video, it’s clear that the song is how a girl is more than a grade on a paper and how well-behaved she is. It’s about how you shouldn’t force a girl to fit a mold of perfection, but how you should let her be wild, rebellious, loud, and free. The line “Good girls are bad girls that haven’t been caught” truly represents how women have to hide their true personalities in order to fit society’s expectations. I highly recommend watching the video, it’s a huge diss toward the media’s sexism.
Out Of My Limit. This one is notorious because the lyrics sound like a woman is a prize, at least, at first listen. Really, if you listen to the lyrics closely, the message of the song is so obvious. Essentially, the premise of the song is how a girl’s affection, not the girl herself, is something that a guy has to earn. You can’t half-ass it, you have to give her everything, your absolute best, to deserve her love. A girl’s affection has to be earned by the guy, not given away like an old toy. Truly, it puts the woman on a pedestal.
Are their lyrics seemingly sexist? Yes, I won’t deny it. But you can’t just look at one lyric, you have to look at the song as a whole. That’s the mistake that people make when critiquing them, they judge too quickly.
EXTRA BONUS: They have a song called Greenlight, which is a song entirely about pleasing a woman as long as she gives him consent.
I repeat, it is a song about consent to please a woman.
A song about fucking consent.
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