"If I Were A Boy - Beyonce"

[Verse]

If I were a boy

Even just for a day

I’d roll outta bed in the morning

And throw on what I wanted and go

Drink beer with the guys

And chase after girls

I’d kick it with who I wanted

And I’d never get confronted for it.

'Cause they’d stick up for me.

[Chorus]

If I were a boy

I think I could understand

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I’d be a better man.

I’d listen to her

'Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted

'Cause he’s taken you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed

[Verse]

If I were a boy

I would turn off my phone

Tell everyone it’s broken

So they’d think that I was sleepin’ alone

I’d put myself first

And make the rules as I go

'Cause I know that she’d be faithful

Waitin’ for me to come home (to come home)

[Chorus]

If I were a boy

I think I could understand

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I’d be a better man.

I’d listen to her

'Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted (wanted)

'Cause he’s taken you for granted (granted)

And everything you had got destroyed

[Bridge]

It’s a little too late for you to come back

Say it's just a mistake

Think I’d forgive you like that

If you thought I would wait for you

You thought wrong

[Chorus 2]

But you’re just a boy

You don’t understand

Yeah, you don’t understand, oh

How it feels to love a girl someday

You wish you were a better man

You don’t listen to her

You don’t care how it hurts

Until you lose the one you wanted

'Cause you’ve taken her for granted

And everything you had got destroyed

But you’re just a boy

Analysis:

I believe the writers and the singer are discussing how a man's life is easier than a woman's as they are not expected to have deep feelings or be emotionally attached to their partner. in the first verse of the song it also discusses how me only "Drink beer with the guys

And chase after girls" and that is the only activities they do, stereotyping them as useless and never achieving anything.  As well as this boys are stereotyped as protecting each other almost as if in a gang, evident in the lyric " And I’d never get confronted for it.

'Cause they’d stick up for me" thus showing how social construction of gender has stereotyped groups of men as being 'ganglike' and very shielding of each other. 

"Geezers Need Excitement"

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

Geezerz need excitement

if their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

Out the club about three, to the take-away

The shit-in-a-tray merchants, shops got special perchant for the disorderly

Geezerz looking ordinary and a few looking leary

Chips fly round the sound of the latest chart entry

An incendiary waiting to blast

No harm with the contest who can throw the furthest

Behind the counter they look nervous, but

Carry on cutting the finest cuts of chicken from the big spinning stick

Then over flies a chip, flips, and hits you on the back

You spin round on the attack

'Fuck you playing at? he looks like a cheshire cat, almost falls down

Your frowns and superman eye lasers don't even register

By now you want to leather this twat

And forever your gonna regret that, your choice of path

So mash his head up and your girls now fed up

But stop to think and it's never gonna be the Jackie Chan scene it could have been to end up

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

So you owe someone money subbing scunny

Best pay me billy - no worries

One-fifty on sunday

But in someway that turns into wednesday

Then goes straight to pay on a hazy evening in the local bar-cafe

What a way. What a way

Just to recap for those at the back, this is everyday tit-for-tat you owe your dealer and

can't pay back fee

Suddenly he's the baddy

So you tell your mates you could have him anyway, to look 'geez'.

But he's a shady fuck, beamer three series, lock, stock and two fat fucks backing him up

Can't convey enough of his desire for the paper stuff

In a blunt fashion Billy's angry with a passion

So please just accept it ain't happening

And go back to your runnins

'Cos you might get yourself in trouble one of these days

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

Get hold of this bird after pub closing hours

Would your girl like this? No don't think so somehow, in the winter showers

But she'll never know and your face will never show shit

This is how goes it and besides she was well fit

And who could resist

Move up to the next place, a smooth club to flex bass beats and your best mates all down

Nice sound, smirnoff ice round.

MC's clowning, ruud boyz frowning

Everything's sweet everything's tucked-in.

And round here were all downing.

But all of a sudden though, just through the smoke, is your bird laughing and joking with a

bloke?

Ain't just that either, as she moves closer,

Miss-shape what looks like their lover - he's tonguing her.

All rage sweeps up through your torso, your moreso ready to go over and show him whos man

Football fan style

Leave it in the can for a while, cos even as they smile you still got choices

Don't listen to them voices

And at the end of the day you may just have caused this

So leave the forces

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense

Geezerz need excitement

If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence

Common sense simple common sense.

Analysis: 
This song depicts a stereotypical young adult male which is evident with the way the lyrics uses the word 'geezer/s' when talking about males. It shows the belief that males need constant attention and big dramatic events happening in their life for them to be satisfied. It also describes the stereotypical view that men have a need to be violent, and if they aren't distracted with "excitement" they "incite violence" (as it describes through the lyrics in the chorus of the film). However, does not consider that this is because society has programmed them to only feel they are asserting their 'dominance' and 'manliness' through fighting. It also suggests males get into a lot of trouble, which frequently is through the means of crime. Furthermore the song also demonstrates that men are unreliable and also take drugs, prominently seen in the lyrics "everyday tit-for-tat you owe your dealer and

can't pay back fee". When talking about women in the song they are described as objects to be possessed only by their boyfriend or whoever they are 'seeing', won and fought over, particularly seen in the lyric "your bird laughing and joking with a bloke?". As well as this by using the slang term 'bird' to describe a girl shows how they are seen as innocent, delicate and naive things, like the animal themselves. 

"Hard Out Here"

I suppose I should tell you what this bitch is thinking

You'll find me in the studio and not in the kitchen

I won't be bragging 'bout my cars or talking 'bout my chains

Don't need to shake my ass for you 'cause I've got a brain

If I told you 'bout my sex life, you'd call me a slut

When boys be talking about their bitches, no one's making a fuss

There's a glass ceiling to break, uh-huh, there's money to make

And now it's time to speed it up 'cause I can't move at this pace

[Bridge:]

Sometimes it's hard to find the words to say

I'll go ahead and say them anyway

Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits

[Chorus:]

It's hard, it's hard, it's hard out here for a bitch

It's hard for a bitch (for a bitch) for a bitch,

It's hard

It's hard out here for a bitch

It's hard for a bitch (for a bitch) for a bitch,

It's hard

It's hard out here

If you're not a size six, then you're not good looking

Well, you better be rich, or be real good at cooking

You should probably lose some weight 'cause we can't see your bones

You should probably fix your face or you'll end up on your own

Don't you want to have somebody who objectifies you?

Have you thought about your butt? Who's gonna tear it in two?

We've never had it so good, uh-huh, we're out of the woods

And if you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

A bitch, a bitch, a bitch, bitch, bitch [4x]

Inequality promises that it's here to stay

Always trust the injustice 'cause it's not going away

Inequality promises that it's here to stay

Always trust the injustice 'cause it's not going away

[Bridge]

[Chorus 2x]

Bitch

Analysis: 

This song is an attempt to break the stereotypical views that the media have on women, such as "you'll find me in the studio and not in the kitchen". This lyric is evidence of Allen going against the age old view of what woman's role was (cooking, cleaning and children). This song by Lily Allen is iconically feministic. It shows how women are stereotypically viewed by the media and how the media feels a woman should look and behave. An example of this is the lyric "if you're not a size six then you're not good looking" which shows how the only women who are considered attractive in the eyes of the media are those who fit a certain body shape ('skinny') and weight, denoting how a woman's worth is measured by her dress size not her achievements and personality, like a males is. Lilly Allen also references the 2013 song 'Blurred Lines' with the lyrics "have you thought about your butt who's gonna tear it in two" which is similar to a lyric that featured in the Robin Thicke song. Allen may have used this as the song had strong connotations of glorifying rape and non-consensual sex which could have been Allen's way of showing how rape is viewed within the media and how it is not considered the serious topic that it should be. This lyric from the singer could also be showing how women are considered to be good for a singular thing: sex. However Allen also covers the subject of Slut Shaming women for having sexual relations and talking about them but not men, she does this with the lyrics, "If I told you 'bout my sex life, you'd call me a slut, When boys be talking about their bitches, no one's making a fuss". This shows how it is considered normal for men to brag and gloat about their sex life however when women do the same thing it is considered wrong and 'slutty' as they are expected to have no opinion on sex and Allen addresses this headstrong.