Is "Slut Pop" political? Kim Petras EP Review 

I had no idea he was trans, wow

@@sweetheartmashupsbabe Wh0?

@@ELA._.BORATED The man of the RU-vid channel?

For what to further politicize our existence? But in a different way? Being trans or doing something while being trans isn’t inherently political. Our identity and existence isn’t “political” because we are living a life of protest or making a statement. Our existence is political in some peoples eyes because they have seen gender rolls enforced with violence and a plethora of other means to protect the status quo. They have a hard time accepting us as is people. I personally don’t want to be politicized, be talked about as a spectacle, I want to be seen and treated like any other person. It’s alienating when I walk into a room and there are people who think my identity is a political statement or me reaffirming or disavowing their political ideology. I’ll say it again we are people doing things people do. We have been for a long time. In a lot of cases we have been written out of history but we aren’t some new fangled idea or novelty.

Yeah it slaps so hard.

music trash and human being trash too

Hi Alex! I love Ayesha Erotica and I've been liking Slut Pop. I had the same thought at first, that it was recycled Ayesha, and ultimately I think Kim has such a sleek pop take on everything that the product lands very differently than an Ayesha track. I just wish Ayesha was still making music :( I've been having fun looking at all the artists in this lane. Throatzilla by Slayyyter, Good Puss by COBRAH, Like Me by Chase Icon, BDE by Shygril, and Throat Goat by Kim all do something different imo. My point is I think we need all the dolls dolling. I appreciated your thoughts! I can totally see how this project could feel bland and irritating.

Pretty much agree with everything you said. But also I feel she's lost a bit of direction musically, last few single releases kinda gave off the impression she was just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks (although pretty sure she has little say in all that). Sadly none of them have given the chart success she/her management probably hoped for, and it's just perplexed some of her core fanbase.

@@acornsoundsquirrel I think Throat Goat hits at a really good spot in the album, you've got this tense, sexual buildup of tracks and at almost exactly at the halfway point there's the massive humorous release that cuts the tension down so it can be built back up.

Aww ur triggered :( A skeeze is the perfect man to produce an album like this. Producing this is the only thing he's good for, because 90% of the time he is probably drinking, doing drugs and philandering with models

Sexual liberation? It's all about "I'll do whatever you want daddy" kind of lyrics, it sounds really attention thirsty to me, and it kind of makes me really uncomfortable as a woman.

@@ravequeenellisd2680 That doesn't mean she isn't creating sexually liberating content. You don't need to be dominant to be liberative; some of us are submissive, some of us use this language in the bedroom, we enjoy it and it makes us feel good, this is what she's doing with it.

Love this take!! I think it can be interpreted as a trans woman specifically inviting the listener to throw away the shame of sex and celebrating our own sexualities, especially as trans women are either demonized or fetishized, so she is reclaiming her own sexuality

also: asexual people exist and many of them would likely not be turned on by it in any way... that's not detrimental to the review or a problem with it... just a tiny adjustment to the professors linguistics or worldview... :) great review nonetheless!

Yes. if you are thinking of your boyfriend then it turned you on. I don’t think he wants to have sex with kim, it’s just the fact she is vividly describing sexual acts.

It’s not about that it’s about dr Luke controlling this young trans woman and shelfing her albums, forcing her to make sluttier songs, it’s not right and I won’t be surprised if she had to sign a bunch of ndas she’s locked in that contract along with doja cat. It’s so sad how these girls get taken advantage. But I do love Kim and definitely listen to problematique it’s what she was suppose to release instead of this horrible ep

Cupcakke literally started as an internet meme. She’s since established herself as a more serious artist but let’s be honest here songs like Vagina or Deepthroat weren’t meant to be taken seriously.

Clearly the production was trying to serve something similar to Peaches. It’s meant to be appreciated more for it’s shock value and the underlying message than a musical masterpiece.

@@justschr yeah I get that and I really do like a lot of that in concept, but I don't think it should necessarily sacrifice good music quality over its meaning

@@SnowBaller985 I don’t think they sacrificed quality at all. I really enjoy the simplicity.

I've got to be honest I've felt that Kim has been lacking in direction for a few singles now, Reminds Me, Malibu, Coconuts have all just came across as streaming cash grabs.....I do understand why her management/whoever is in charge at Kim HQ thinks that was the right way to go but.....i'd disagree, but what do i know, I'm not financially invested in her career.....x

@@SnowBaller985 Also if it wasn’t already obvious by the styling the production is reminiscent of early 2000’s electro. You really need to listen to Avenue D, FannyPack, or Peaches to understand what they were trying to put out.

Based came from rapper Lil B. Thank you based God. This definition is legit tho. Somewhere at some point the left and the right started using it!

@@zanderlenoir8117 oh yeah, of course it’s Lil B

Its production and aesthetics certainly bears more of a resemblance to "frat club" than Peaches imo.

a trans person's birth name when they have changed their name as part of their gender transition.

I don’t think you make an album specifically for the radio called “SLUTPOP” with tracks like “Treat me like a slut” “XXX”, or “They wanna F***”. With lyrics such as “Ooh yeah, daddy you got permission Ooh yeah, put me into position Ooh yeah, come on teach me a lesson Ooh yeah, I can be your possession”. Just an observation. People have a visceral reaction to this sort of stuff and that’s part of the appeal and marketing.

In my opinion it greatly affects it sadly, especially taking into account the lyrical content of the EP

Agreed

It's a state if mind, even if it's not healthy, it still is

Putting aside your thoughts on gender identity, it is true people are assigned a sex at birth, doctors base it on genitals of the child but that isn't foolproof, intersex people exist whose chromosomes and hormones don't actually match to that assigned sex of male or female, and in rare cases can even have characteristics of both - it's not quite so black and white as always man or woman!

Please look up "intersex" on Wikipedia . Or in any basic biology text. For extra credit, look up 5ARD or 17BHSD, the two most common syndromes that cause an apparent sex change after birth from F to M. Things are nowhere near as simple as you were taught. 1 in 300 men don't have the usual 46,XY most men do. Some women do though, and rarely, so do the daughters they give birth to.

A short history of Sex Chromosomes In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 48 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 48 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity. A reasonable conclusion. Fast forward 50 years... and it was found that some men had 47 chromosomes, including 2 X's and a Y, while some women had 45, including only one X. Everyone else had 46, rather than 48. Still no problem with the "Y chromosome defines masculinity" idea. Then... it was found that fully 1 in 300 men weren't 46,XY. Some women were. Oops. After DNA was discovered in the 50s, it was found that the SrY gene, usually found on the Y chromosome, sometimes was missing. And sometimes had been translocated to another chromosome, hence 46,XX men and 46,XY women. So SrY defined masculinity. Whew! Then.. it was found out that some men didn’t have an SrY chromosome, not anywhere. Some women did. Other genes were involved sometimes. Oops again. . Worse, other factors, such as Androgen Insensitivity made 46,XY people female, and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia masculinised 46,XX people. Then in the 70s, other syndromes, such as 5alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were identified, which caused babies to look like one sex at birth, then the other at ppuberty. Even worse, in some places 1 in 50 infants had this natural sex change, it was not rare there. Science 1974 Dec 27; 186 (4170): 1213-5 In an isolated village of the southwestern Dominican Republic, 2% of the live births were in the 1970's, guevedoces....These children appeared to be girls at birth, but at puberty these 'girls' sprout muscles, testes, and a penis. For the rest of their lives they are men in nearly all respects. In the 90s, it was found that hormonal hiccups in the womb caused some parts of the body to develop as one sex, others as the other, regardless of genetics. Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus. Kruiver et al J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2000) 85:2034-2041 The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions It's a matter of timing during foetal development. Sometimes a boy is born looking like a girl, sometimes a girl is born looking like a boy, regardless of chromosomes. This is complex stuff. We don't teach the Theory of General Relativity in grade school, Newtonian physics, or at most Special Relativity (far simpler than General) is enough. Similarly, "XX is female, XY is male" is good enough unless you do medicine or biology in college. It's only really relevant when talking about Trans or Intersex people, just as Relativistic effects only become relevant in the domain of the very big, very small, or very very fast, close to 186,000 miles a second. People do *not* need psychiatric help when they think that things get heavier, more massive, as they go faster... while lengths contract. People do *not* need help when they think their sex is something different from their genetics. Intersex people exist. Trans people exist. They are unusual, so trying to apply the usual approximations is as silly as trying to apply Newtonian physics to things moving close to or at light speed. Legislating such things is as insane as legally ruling that Pi=3... as has been done in the past. Z.E.Brain Sex and Gender Education Australia 2021.