What do you do when you love

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Why do women love men and their music who treat them - in the mildest cases - as sex objects? The Rolling Stones wrote the song "Under My Thumb" back in 1966. The lyrics are about, among other things, how to get the "sweetest pet in the world under your thumb". "I hit her, I fuck her, I love her, I leave her because I don't fucking need her," boasts Jay-Z in one of the most successful songs of recent years. It was particularly successful with female audiences.

Why on earth?

A group of 29 authors from England and the USA have austria rcs data been looking for explanations. Their conclusion: "Women's attitudes towards music are different to men's." And the report's co-editor, Rhian E. Jones, says: " an artist and his music, but at the same time know that there is a disturbing side to him?" The attraction of the bad boy still seems to work. Author Amanda Barokh writes: "My father is from Iran, and little Amanda is ashamed when he sings along loudly to Arabic music. With Jay-Z's music, the flutes from my father's culture sound different, magical!" And she continues: "I imagined that I was not a woman, but the protagonist of the song. And suddenly I felt powerful."

This conflict, this longing for oppression on the one hand and the feeling of being able to exercise power on the other, fascinates many people. Especially those from the working class and from migrant backgrounds. A conflict that connects. In many songs by artists with a migrant background, women are - one has to put it this way - treated like dirt. Discriminatory, violent content is standard. "Bitch: Shut up! Before I press my balls into your mouth!" When Kool Savas, of Turkish descent, rapped this line in the song "Lutsch mein Schwanz" in 2000, it was one of the first moments when listeners asked themselves: "Is he allowed to do that? Isn't that too extreme?"