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Ears To Your Beautiful Women Analysis

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Are you good or pretty enough? Alessia Cara’s new song talks about the struggle that women go through to fit into or society. “Scars to Your Beautiful” brings up a topic that a lot of other Pop singers are bringing up on their songs. Even if women have achieved a lot of rights, society still has a lot of high expectations about them. The main one that Alessia Cara shows in her song is about “beauty” but these other artists like Madonna and Beyonce also talk about how society expects women to behave. Alessia Cara is a Canadian singer and songwriter born in July 11, 1996, making her 21 years old. She started recording cover videos for Youtube and ended up signing with Def Jam Recordings and releasing her first single, “Here”, that hit the Top 5 in the United States. Besides singing and writing songs, Alessia also can impersonate other singers like Adele, Lorde, and Iggy Azalea. “She says beauty is pain and there’s beauty in everything; What’s a little bit of hunger” (Scars to Your Beautiful). Alessia mentions the battle that many women have with their bodies so they can …show more content…

In this part of the song Colbie Caillat talks about the expectations when it comes to women’s behavior and the pressure for them to always look nice and sexy all the time. The struggle is not only to fit in when it comes to looks, but also when it comes to how they should act. Madonna mentions it in her song “What it feels like for a girl” : “Hurt that’s not supposed to show and tears that fall when no one knows; When you’re trying hard to be your best could you be a little less” (What it feels like for a girl ), in this part of the song she talks about how women are required to be good all the time, but not too much. Beyonce does the same in her song Flawless: “ We say to girl; You can have ambition; But not too much; You should be successful, but not too successful”

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