Wanna be a victim?

Just a little background on my thoughts for this song.  If you've been reading my hubs for a while you know about my experiences with sexual violence.  As a result I take issue with a lot of songs I hear on the radio, but E.T. by Katy Perry and Kanye West definitely takes the cake.

I wasn't going to say anything (except to my husband who hears all my radical opinions) but I was listening to the Top 40 by Ryan Seacrest show this morning and I heard that this song was #1 on the charts and I was very troubled.

For those of you who are not familiar with the song, here are they lyrics as found on http://www.metrolyrics.com/et-lyrics-kanye-west.html 

[Kanye West] 
I got a dirty mind 
I got filthy ways 
I'm tryna Bathe my ape in your Milky Way 
I'm a legend, I'm irreverent 
I be reverend 
I be so fa-a-ar up, we don't give a f-f-f-f-ck 
Welcome to the danger zone 
Step into the fantasy 
You are not invited to the other side of sanity 
They calling me an alien 
A big headed astronaut 
Maybe it's because your boy Yeezy get ass a lot 

[Katy Perry] 
You're so hypnotizing 
Could you be the devil 
Could you be an angel 

Your touch magnetizing 
Feels like I am floating 
Leaves my body glowing 

They say be afraid 
You're not like the others 
Futuristic lover 
Different DNA 
They don't understand you 

Your from a whole other world 
A different dimension 
You open my eyes 
And I'm ready to go 
Lead me into the light 

Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me 
Infect me with your love and 
Fill me with your poison 

Take me, ta-ta-take me 
Wanna be a victim 
Ready for abduction 

Boy, you're an alien 
Your touch so foreign 
It's supernatural 
Extraterrestrial 

Your so supersonic 
Wanna feel your powers 
Stun me with your lasers 
Your kiss is cosmic 
Every move is magic 

Your from a whole other world 
A different dimension 
You open my eyes 
And I'm ready to go 
Lead me into the light 

Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me 
Infect me with your love and 
Fill me with your poison 

Take me, ta-ta-take me 
Wanna be a victim 
Ready for abduction 

Boy, you're an alien 
Your touch so foreign 
It's supernatural 
Extraterrestrial 

[Kanye West] 
I know a bar out in Mars 
Where they driving spaceships instead of cars 
Cop a Prada spacesuit about the stars 
Getting stupid ass straight out the jar 
Pockets on Shrek, Rockets on deck 
Tell me what's next, alien sex 
I'mma disrobe you, than I'mma probe you 
See I abducted you, so I tell ya what to do 
I tell ya what to do, what to do, what to do 

[Katy Perry] 
Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me 
Infect me with your love and 
Fill me with your poison 

Take me, ta-ta-take me 
Wanna be a victim 
Ready for abduction 

Boy, you're an alien 
Your touch so foreign 
It's supernatural 
Extraterrestrial 

Extraterrestrial 
Extraterrestrial 

Boy, you're an alien 
Your touch so foreign 
It's supernatural 
Extraterrestrial

In the chorus to this song Katy Perry begs "Kiss me, infect me with your love and fill me with your poison."  She then tells us she want to be a victim and she's ready for abduction.

Far be it from me to say that people shouldn't be into rape fantasy.  Really, whatever you want sexually is none of my business.  It becomes my business (and everyone else's too) when you're telling teen girls (as that is Katy Perry's market) that wanting to be raped is awesome and exciting.  Being raped is "extraterrestrial."  

Okay, staying away from Kanye West's inability to form complete sentences is going on the sidelines for now. He starts out this song by saying, "I've got a dirty mind, I've got filthy ways."  He continues by saying he's a big headed astronaut.  All I have to say about that is. . . way to be subtle Kanye.  

Then toward the middle of the song he says, "See, I abducted you so I tell you what to do."  Ummm, really?  If that's not a way to encourage healthy sexuality, I don't know what is. 

As I said in the beginning, if rape fantasy is your thing far be it from me or anybody else to judge you.  What I see as problematic is that two people who market their music directly to young people who are just beginning to discover their sexuality are saying that rape is a good thing.  To go even further, it's out of this world.  You'll never get anything better.

I would call for people to write music about healthy sexuality.  Encourage young people to discover their own sexuality without being influenced toward something they may not want.