The music industry has taken a wrong turn and it affects our new generation; music videos are becoming more and more like pornographic trailers that cause men and women to objectify each other as sexual objects. According to Camille Paglia (professor, educator and feminist) in “Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex”, “Hollywood discovered that sex was big box office” (2). Since sex sells, it is a marketing technique used by record companies to sell more records. So does the use of sex really empower women? In Paglia's article, "Madonna I: Animality and Artifice," she states that the dominatrix (used by Madonna) empowers women, and should be praised by all female musicians (89). I agree with Paglia's statement that sexuality sometimes empowers women rather than exploiting them to behave lewdly; However, in music, I believe the line between a woman using sexuality and promoting herself as an object goes unnoticed because it changes depending on who dominates. When male musicians dominate a certain type of genre (hip-hop), many new musicians (including women) degrade women to jump-start their careers because sex sells. For example, before Nicki Minaj became famous, she began her career by degrading the women in her life. mix tape, "Sucka Free", cover image because most people think that hip-hop is only a man's profession, and have little respect for women because most men listen to hip-hop. And so in order for female rappers to get the attention of those men, she has to jumpstart her career using her sex appeal image. In addition to her degrading cover pose, which may cause young women in our society to accept it as the norm, she was criticized by many because that posture was not only inappropriate, but was copied from Lil' Kim. In fact, it was the same pose Lil' Kim uses on one of her old covers... center of the paper... blame Gaga for killing sex. Personally, I think Paglia's argument blaming Gaga for not being sexy didn't explain enough about Gaga that she can play the piano, write music, sing great live, dance, and create fashion (Needham 2). This is primarily a comparison to his “long-term crush” (Needham 2) Madonna who is, as Paglia stated, “the future of feminism” (“Madonna I: Animality and Artifice” 90) now seems “abandoned in the past” (Needham 2). Overall Gaga is empowering everyone to respect each other and love themselves, unlike Rihanna who exploits women to be a slave to men. I believe Rihanna not only degrades women but also exploits children by singing age-inappropriate songs to them. Regardless of the increase in the number of musicians like Rihanna, I think Gaga will achieve much more success than musicians who choose to follow rather than lead.