2. Rocko ft. Future and Rick Ross—“U. O. E. N. O.”
Sometimes, women are wrong. Sometimes, we need a bit of help from the superior, smarter sex. In “U. O. E. N. O.,” that help comes in the form of Rick Ross “put[ting] Molly all in her champagne.” Ross is clearly a man who knows how to handle that inconvenient female weakness of thinking she can make her own decisions about sex.
1. Robin Thicke ft. T.I. and Pharrell—“Blurred Lines”
If Robin Thicke doesn’t follow in Gloria Steinem’s footsteps and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the next few years, then I’m no longer to be taken seriously. He empowers the female subject of his magnum opus to “let [him] liberate [her],” augments her self-esteem by telling her she is a “good girl,” and finally obliterates sexism once and for all by “blurring” the “lines” between men and women (and not, as some ignorami have claimed, between sex and rape). Bravo, Thicke. You’ve accomplished for us women what we never could have done ourselves.
—Staff Writer Grace E. Huckins is an outgoing campus arts executive and the incoming books executive. She listens to a lot of Tegan and Sara and Sinead O’Connor. She can be reached at grace.huckins@thecrimson.com.