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The other is Ciara in drag, wearing a suit and braids. One Ciara is wearing a white dress and extremely high heels. The last two Ciaras dance together on a raised stage. At one point, they lie on the floor while Ciara seems to control their limbs by gesturing. Her backup dancers are women similarly dressed like men. She also mocks masculinity in certain dance moves (for example, a bodybuilder pose). This Ciara cites male ways of walking, gesticulating, and dancing. She leans back in her chair and grabs her crotch. This Ciara wears a tank top, baggy pants, and sneakers and has tattoos on her arms. The second is dressed in men’s clothes, but still presenting herself as a woman (for example, her long hair is still prominent). One is dressed in women’s clothes (with bracelets, earrings, and heavy eye makeup), singing the song to her boyfriend. In the video, Ciara both dresses like a boy and as a boy. I think it’s very similar to Shen Teh, who is restricted in how she acts by needing to be a “good person,” so she develops a male persona that can be rude to people and can keep them from taking advantage of her. Apparently, as a woman, she could never act in these ways.
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And Ciara wishes she could act like a boy so she could act the same way towards her boyfriend as he acts towards her. Here are the lyrics of the chorus (copied from some lyrics website):Īcting like a boy within the relationship is only negative in this song.
In the song, Ciara sings about how sometimes she wishes she could act like a boy within a (heterosexual) relationship, which includes things like having a secret bank account and staying out until 4 in the morning. This was going to be a short post, but there’s just too much to talk about with this video. It’s “Like a Boy” by Ciara and it reminds me of The Good Person of Szchewan. I’ve been meaning to write a post about this video since last week.