- FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SONGS MOVIE
- FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SONGS PROFESSIONAL
- FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SONGS SERIES
Between its piano-led ballads and joyful tropical house, this album signals the transformation of the Fifty Shades series from a sordid sexual fantasy to a legitimate romantic one - idealizing an abusive dynamic in the process. The fact that this film and its album are debuting around Valentine’s Day only bolsters the idea that Ana’s and Christian’s is being marketed as the ultimate romance. The record is most disturbing when it offers pure and simple love songs - because Fifty Shades is not a pure and simple love story. While the music might have lost its sinister edge, the second Fifty Shades album is more dangerous than the first. When Tove Lo sings that “Love and pain go hand in hand,” or when The-Dream claims “That’s what I get for loving you,” the words can so easily be imagined coming out of the mouth of someone in a desperately toxic relationship.
Sia’s image “I’m stronger/ ’Cause you fill me up” brings to mind the feeble, empty portrayal of Ana, who overlooks her own happiness for Christian’s. This unhealthy dynamic casts a harsh light on the accompanying soundtrack. The ‘Grey changes’ defense is unhelpful.”
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SONGS MOVIE
U.K.-based initiative Fifty Shades Is Abuse, who protested at the premiere of the first movie and plan to do so again at the premiere of the second, put it this way on Twitter: “Hoping an abusive partner will change is something that keeps people in toxic relationships. By pushing the narrative that Christian Grey is “changing,” and the story is becoming a “fairytale,” the second part of the trilogy upholds a central myth of abuse: that abusers, if forgiven, will change their ways.
With Fifty Shades Darker, this problem only becomes more enhanced. “Christian continuously violates trust and her ability to feel safe.any person in their right mind would get out of a relationship that’s like that.”
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SONGS PROFESSIONAL
“BDSM is about creating vulnerability, opening yourself up to your partner,” a professional Dom told The Huffington Post in 2015. Many BDSM advocates have spoken out about how little Fifty Shades resembles their lifestyle. It’s this power imbalance and bad communication that makes Christian and Ana’s story so sinister - not the sexual acts themselves. Rather than Ana and Christian both being informed, happy, and consenting in the bedroom, they’re both portrayed as pretty messed up: Christian’s into BDSM because he has unresolved issues from childhood abuse, and Ana, seemingly prioritizing Christian’s pleasure over her own, goes along with his urges, even when she doesn’t want to, or is in actual pain. Christian not only wants to whip Ana, but also wants to stalk her, control how much she eats and drinks, and dictate which birth control she uses. Rather, it’s a story of a man who wants to control every aspect of his partner’s life. James writes in her trilogy is not a healthy kink relationship. Kinky sex is not itself abusive, but what author E.L. As the film’s trailer insists, “EVERY FAIRYTALE.HAS A DARK SIDE.” The most troubling part of this is not the implied darkness, but the suggestion that Fifty Shades is a fairytale at all.įifty Shades of Grey, both in book and movie form, has been strongly criticized by a long list of academics, critics, survivors of domestic violence, and BDSM professionals, who have highlighted the ways in which the story glamorizes abusive relationships. As a standalone album, it wouldn’t raise any eyebrows, but in the context of the Fifty Shades universe, anything that indicates that Ana and Christian’s relationship is aspirational, or even normal, feels off. While the majority of this soundtrack plays it safe thematically - and mostly avoids talk of sex, let alone BDSM - it feels sinister in a different way.
0 kommentar(er)
