After taking a hiatus from music, British singer Lily Allen has made a bold comeback with her new video "Hard Out Here," which takes a hard swipe at mainstream pop music.
The video opens showing the 28-year-old pop star lying on an operating table as she is undergoing liposuction and being scrutinized by her manager and the surgeons. "Jesus, how could somebody let themselves get like this," her manager asks. "Um, I had two babies," Allen responds.
Throughout the feminist-theme video, Allen mocks sexual objectification by exemplifying how African American women are expected to be sexually suggestive in music videos. In one scene, Allen's scantily clad dancers pour champagne on each other.
During the song, Allen sings: "Don't need to shake my a-s at you 'cuz I've got a brain." Then: "If I told you 'bout my sex life, you'd call me a s--t."
Allen wears her classic wry smirk throughout the entire video, although her manager tries to reinvent her into a champagne popping, e-cig smoking twerking Queen.
The wife and mother of two also takes a jab at singer Robin Thicke who featured a woman dancing in front of bubble balloons which spell out "Robin Thicke has a big d--k" in the promo for his song "Blurred Lines," notes the Atlantic Wire. In "Hard Out Here," Allen is seen dancing in front of the words "Lily Allen has a baggy p---y."
In addition, the singer takes a dig at the use of the word "b---h" in pop music with the chorus featuring the line: "Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits, it's hard out here for a b---h."
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