Katherine

I know, I know. Meghan Trainor’s new song All About That Bass isn’t the perfect body-loving anthem we’ve been waiting for. It’s problematic, and somewhat exclusionary, and still heavily invested in the power of the male gaze.

But still.

I only had to hear All About That Bass once and I was hooked. Within an hour I had it playing on repeat, bopping my head to the cutesy beat and belting out the chorus like I was Meghan herself. I had read the lyrics and knew already that the song had issues, but I shrugged my misgivings off as best as I could. After all, saying that you are glad to be larger is a fairly controversial statement, and hearing it declared over the radio is a pretty big deal.

And although I love and appreciate the critiques that have been written about the song, I think that this may be a time to put our fuzzy feminist glasses on. Not to ignore the problems in the song, but to keep them in mind, think them over, and then turn up the volume.