Rihanna “Can You Get It Up” Controversy
All Rihanna did was ask the boy if he could get it up and that has been causing fuss galore. You would think that this is the first time in musical history that a woman has sung such a sexual song.
Madonna has been doing it for years and we can leave out Dorothy’s favorite Lady Ga Ga who is singing “she wants to take a ride on your disco stick” or she wants “your vertical stick”.
So with all these wuckless songs being sung why should a good and honorable magistrate choose to attack Rihanna’s song.
Why on the call in programs and Bajan blogs Rihannas song is generating a feedback of rage?
Let me give you my Boyce Voice opinion.
Rihanna has had the audacity to challenge the masculinity of our gender. She challenges the man asking if he can “get it up”.
How dare she! Now if she had said she wanted “it” bad that would have been no problem, if she had said she wanted to “ride it” that would have pleased mankind greatly. But she is issuing a challenge and mere men see it as a threat to their sexuality.
Rihanna is representing the sexually uninhibited females now on the rise. Who discard feminine stereo types of being shy and timid and instead are brazen and out spoken.
You see them on Facebook with their challenging status updates on what kind of man they are looking for and how they like to “get it”.
So lets not be “hard on” Rihanna…… hmmm let me rephrase that, Let’s not “get down” on Rihanna for choosing to voice the mood and the language of our new generation of females.
Next time you hear Rihanna asking “can you get it up?” Get it up or Shut Up!
If during the reading of this blog there is any thing I might have written which might have incensed or offended you, GET OVER IT! There are many things I read and hear in the media on a daily basis that I don't like either. SO DEAL WITH IT! You are welcome to leave your comments though. Make sure and come back yuh hear !!!...
April 8th, 2010 at 12:24 am
So glad that there are those who see the real issue. Yes people have a problem with the sexual content, but the further problem for them in this song is that it’s the woman calling the shots. A man does it, he’s a man. A woman does it, she’s a whore. You know – the double-standard that is practically cliche. Anyhow, I gine leff wunna tuh ponder an pompaset. I gine an ask a rude boy a question!!
April 8th, 2010 at 5:38 am
I tell yah!
April 8th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
You’re gaga does’t mean lone of those POGO STICKs?
April 8th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
To repeat U r sure gaga does not mean a pogo stick
April 8th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
“Rihanna is representing the sexually uninhibited females now on the rise. Who discard feminine stereo types of being shy and timid and instead are brazen and out spoken.”
I hope you dont mean teenagers in this lot. And when i say teenagers I mean 13 and up. There has to be some consideration for the influential minds of our young, or should i say younger people.
In her quest to being bold and brazen, there has to be some kind of discretion and sensitivity to the even younger teenagers who’s minds are very volatile. Have we forgotten what it is like to be young and easily influenced and always wanna be part of the ‘the crowd’. We always wanted to ‘fit’ in.
I am sorry, the sexual, content and innuendos are too much.
There has to be a line drawn.
Of course it doesnt mean that Rihanna will change her Rated R and X style to accomodate, hummmm..let say the WHOLE WORDL, but we need to stop allowing our ’support’ of Rihanna and her success, cause US to compromise what we know to be good, grounded, sound morals. Stop compromising!
April 8th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
The open discussion of sexuality has always been a problem in our society. Its ok “behind” close doors but dare not let us discuss it in public especially if it attacks a man’s ability to satisfy his partner be it male or female. When the Jamaican artists asks the general public to “come up in their rumping shop” no one said anything it was a hit on our local airwaves – the clean version that is but who could miss the sexual connotations. When Marvyn Gay sang ” Sexual Healing” no one had a problem with it.
April 8th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I agree that women of today are alot more sexually agressive and this song represents that. However the song is pure sexuality. If we are going to criticize Vybes Cartel and smutty dancehall lyrics then we must also find fault with this particular Rihanna song.
April 8th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
lol @ Lynelle, I dont think its no POGO Stick
here are some comments from my Facebook friends in response to this post
QueenSuperior K Superior
as macka diamond say baby yuh done cum ah ready yuh really mean that yuh really cum ah ready lololollol i see no problem with the song either i jus cant understand men been discriminating women in their songs callin them skanks ,robbers etc so no biggy in that song
QueenSuperior K Superior
i heard soldier boy sang ah song girl you stank meaning whats between her legs is stink ,why they dont put him in court
Kwame Beckles ‘Kae’Y these razzole people cant just go deaff!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!??! GO DEAFF NUH. SHYTE MAN.. She make more money in a day than they make in a year. Her farts got dollarsigns.. thats y ppl be buggin over her shit, cause they cant afford wut she’s recordin… GIVEUP GIVEUP
Kirk Whitney
This is such crap….
Songs in America, “F@$% you like a animal” by Nine Inch Nails….this group went on to win 2 Grammy’s (not for the song in question) and sold 20 million albums worldwide or if you not a rock head and are more into R&B lets say Marvin Gaye with “Lets get it on” or “sexual healing”.
In every genre from reggae to soca to country, sex sells. It is a part of life and expression. If your virgin ears are so holy just turn the station…. See More
April 8th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
More Facebook Comments
Jo-Anne Husbands
Who exactly is making the fuss? I betcha it’s those who really can’t get it up or some prude ass women who got issues! What the hell!
Joy Bryan
lol….they must not have heard the lyrics to “Rude Boy”. If it was a man singing it to a woman with a spin on the words, they would be ok with it.
Rosemary Parkinson
I think we might just be going a little too far now in trying to “clean up” lyrics that might affect the youth. This whole clean up campaign started with Jamaica Dancehall that specifically says “take up your guns and kill each other or batty men” (words to that effect) but now has gone through the self-righteous dopes in our society and become … See Moreyet another witch hunt! Can we never be sensible about any particular thing? Must we always bang it (oops! sorry! smut again) to perdition ’till it totally dead (oh! dear wash my mouth out with soap! before I go any further..for this last word could cause havoc with man’s sensibilities!).
Lorna Watson Deukett
I really believe that theyre carrying a good thing 2 far. It took years 2 get Bim 2 this point of degredation does the esteemed minister and the nay sayers actually think that they r going 2 turn it around by banning and sensoring and pointing fingers? They bleep out every word on cbc and all u have 2 do is change the channel 2 get ur earful. … See MoreSuggestive songs were around 4 yrs and will b around long after we r gone. Get real d u really think that our Calypsonians music will sell if evry little innuendo or comical hint is left out… The lizard run up she foot, congo man etc were certainly no Gospel songs but we enjoyed them 4 what they were. lay off the lyrics and lay into the damn children.
Roberta Phillips
is it about the song or Just the fact that Rhianna is singing it? Now to the point of whether songs will sell unless it has nasty lyrics – Michael Jackson – nuff said. It can be done but is society ready and willing to take on such a task I say no. Go back to when Rhianna first started singing – pon de replay, she was a nobody then. Eminem – cus bird to the thousandth power, whose gonna stop him, and who buys his music – we do. So I ask the question again – is it the song or the singer?
April 15th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Honestly, people need to stop being so hypocritical in Barbados. Every year August 4th rolls around n the same people who criticizing Rihanna’s song does let their same children jump down the road in barely anything grinding up on eachother with excessive alcohol in their systems and we call it our culture. The girl barely ask a question and its an issue simply because she is one of us? I’m sure if it was Beyonce or Lady Gaga this would not have been a problem. If you as a parent don’t want your child listening to something that you feel will influence them negatively then put boundaries in place in the home but do not sit there and act like this is the first time you have ever heard a song with blatant sexual innuendos because they come out every Crop Over season.
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:11 pm
you are so sexxy I love you
July 18th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I was a bit shocked the first time I heard it on main-stream radio, but it’s not half as rude as some of the rap songs out there. What’s really the big deal? Really young kids won’t understand what get it up means. If kids are old enough to understand, fine, who really cares. It’s not going to corrupt them.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Me nah touching one. Let this one slide. Have to get Brain
wrap around it first before I comment. J