YO YO World: Music and Misogyny

The sun went down, inhuman sea of humanity lands to party. Frustrated lifestyle, frustrated life meets frustrated music. Beer, party and women this vicious cycle never ends.

Fagged minds and boozed souls rock the floor, forgetting the lyrics and the culture it is propagating.

So when

“tujh jaisi toh pat jaati hai,phir dughatna ghat jati hai

Mai hoon shikari kudiye

Mujhko naa pehchane tu kya  tere

Ghar akhbar nahi aata.”

People celebrate the culture of gender terrorism and they need tougher laws to prevent gender abuse.

Singh and his lyrics reflect platitudinous culture of patriarchal setup..The culture that would have erased XX chromosome from the humanity, had it not been for her physical landmarks-the breasts, the buttocks and the vagina.

Honey Singh has created such an ecosystem that whenever there’s party. Woman by default becomes the victim of violence. Party, beer, and woman become same, all three meant for consumption, entertainment and disposal.

He represents the popular culture of hyper violent masculinity that has crept in our society. Where a boy becomes a man, only when he hoists flags of masculinity on women's physical, mental and social well being .sound musical beat cannot justify unsound lyrical structure. Society that is fast alienating itself from morals, detaching itself from ground realities, it’s no surprise Singh is sensation anyone who generates adrenaline is hero, be it Honey Singh makers of grand masti and Asharam.

Sex sells but should not there be a limit to it??Censor board passed grand masti without objecting its content. Its members got enraged when Chairperson Leela Samson commented, her 90 % of colleagues are uneducated (later she had to withdraw her words.).

Music lessons need to be re taught in the country. On one hand Zubin Mehta’s diplomatic peace keeping music failed to calm down the fire in the Jammu and kashmir.and on other hand Singh’s violent music is leaving disastrous impact.

This kind of music gives more reasons to prove that women are just passive receiver to men’s sexual desire.

Rapping the rape song

Harassing the heels

Dope shope is what women are addicted to

Women after using men...Break up

“The break up party” song is a sheer reflection that if a woman instead of man moves out of relationship, she is vamp.

Like any other rap star who narrates misogyny, Singh too depicts women in following senses

Women and sex

Women and violence

Women as trouble for men

Women less than

Women as mean

His lyrics are mirror to the young men of all the classes who see woman as status enhancing commodities. In times when women are outdoing men in all the walks of life .her body –her bodily integrity is the only vulnerable terrain on which male rage is venting itself.

The violence factor is high in his songs .the violence is the way one treats woman with, violence is the only language a woman understands .her man possess all the rights to correct her by violent means(domestic violence is the crude example),when he thinks she has gone astray .

In his hit song ****, the rape valorizing rap star ,voices his yearning to kick a woman after raping her to drive out the bhoot of her ego from her head. It shows the mentality where sexually independent woman is the biggest enemy of men.

Recent debate to punish juvenile rapist triggered many points but it clearly misses one important. If one sits and looks how that juvenile became the merciless rapist and the murderer, one would find culture that likes of Singh create act as catalyst in molding their thoughts.

When young and prospect less men from slum, streets and society as whole hear such lyrical violence, they feel connected and alienated at the same time

Connected because on TV and other media women are commodities, the same way they are treat on streets and homes. Alienated because they feel deprived of the third degree addiction to sex, women and drugs of the pub life. We create hypersexualised society for such vulnerable kids. When they see a woman who is independent in all forms and is better off than them, she becomes their enemy and meets the fate of Nirbhaya.

It’s time to think that one, who dances on violence outside, comes home and demolishes womanhood.

When the music gets furious

And it gets loud

Slow down and pause

Listen to the lyrics

And whom it is about

If it is the mentality that is so sick

It’s time to stop the music.