Pretty Hurt By Sia Furleman And Beyone

In the song “Pretty Hurts” written by Sia Furler, Joshua Coleman and Beyonce Knowles, has very serious empowering meaning behind the lyrics. Annotating this song has shown me a clearer view on how our nation and society sees beauty. Inflicted perfectionism upon our young girls and women and how certain beauty is expected from them. There’s way too much pressure on these girls and women to be beautiful. Women need to love themselves and not ponder over what they could be. In the world that we live in today, sadly the expectations on our young girls and women, is still a serious problem and are extraordinarily high expectations. The media, the pageants, and the modeling industry are all portraying the idealistic women and body type and have been for generations now and are still telling women what to look like and wear. Many women suffer from trying to be that perfect women. “Vogue says thinner is better” and “Blonder hair, flat chest, TV says bigger is better” (Beyonce) are both examples of the media imprinting “what they should be” in the minds of young women, rather than what really matters; their self worth. Many Mothers inflict this life on their daughters, unwillingly and forcibly from birth. Training them to be this perfect girl. Beyonce says “Mama said
The media and our society are the biggest contributor to poisoning our minds into what beauty is. Women and girls are being pressured to be as beautiful as they can and that does not empower us, it degrades us. Young girls go through so much pain trying to be someone they are not. Literally pretty hurts, that saying doesn't just come out of nowhere. It hurts physically and is mentally depriving. This idealistic women fantasy needs to end so our future daughters will feel