{"id":100158,"date":"2014-09-15T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=100158"},"modified":"2014-09-12T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T19:20:41","slug":"you-can-be-all-about-that-bass-and-the-treble-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/you-can-be-all-about-that-bass-and-the-treble-too\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can be All About that Bass and the Treble, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PCkvCPvDXk\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Back in the day, I was a size four. And standing at 5\u2019 10\u201d, that made me what some might call a \u201cskinny b*tch,\u201d or at least that\u2019s the term Meghan Trainor uses in her smash pop hit, <em>All About that Bass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There was a time I felt kind of sorry for poor, skinny me. I mean, it\u2019s not like I didn\u2019t eat. I did. I hammered down pizza, buffalo wings, ramen noodles, and vending machine candy like any good college student (all washed down with keg beer, of course). I remember walking through the mall one afternoon when a large banner outside Lane Bryant caught my eye: <em>Real Women Have Curves<\/em>. I felt a pang of self consciousness at the straps of my <strong><a title=\"how to buy a sports bra\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/the-no-fail-guide-to-buying-the-right-sports-bra-plus-3-to-try\/\">A-cup bra<\/a><\/strong> hanging over my skeletal clavicle.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now? Ten years, two kids (plus one one the way) and 25 pounds later, I finally have some of that \u201cjunk\u201d that Meghan refers to. But here\u2019s the thing. I still don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s in \u201call the right places.\u201d At least a good twenty pounds of that weight went straight to my thighs. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve got plenty of friends who\u2019re claiming <em>All About that Bass<\/em> as their jam. And who can blame them? It\u2019s catchy, it\u2019s fresh, and gosh darn it, it\u2019s nice to see women (and that one guy) with thicker-than-your-average-video-dancer frames getting down with their bad selves!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a title=\"all about that bass\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/you-can-be-all-about-that-bass-and-the-treble-too\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100189\" alt=\"all-about-that-bass\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/all-about-that-bass.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/all-about-that-bass.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/all-about-that-bass-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even Jimmy Fallon has fallen for Meghan\u2019s booty-loving beat, and it\u2019s hard not to love what The Jimmy loves (this is what I call him now, cause we\u2019re BFFs). But there are some who are shaking their heads, instead of their backsides, when the song comes on.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Back to that \u201cskinny b*tches\u201d part. Considering I used to be one of them (in theory), I know what it feels like to be slammed for your natural body size. Not cool. And let\u2019s not forget that we\u2019re trying to impress boys who \u201clike a little more booty to hold at night.\u201d Who cares what the boys like? (No offense to those of the male gender. I care about you.) If this is supposed to be about body acceptance, is it counter-intuitive to justify your self-love with partner approval?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There are other parts of the song, however, that call out damaging practices in the beauty and fashion industry. (I\u2019m looking at you <strong><a title=\"photoshop in magazines modcloth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/modcloth-is-fed-up-with-photoshop-and-signs-truth-in-advertising-pledge\/\">magazines workin\u2019 that Photoshop<\/a><\/strong>.) These lyrics help raise awareness of false standards, and that\u2019s beneficial for women of all shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Overall, I think <em>All About that Bass<\/em> should be taken for what it\u2019s worth &#8212; a pop song. 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And standing at 5\u2019 10\u201d, that made me what some might call a \u201cskinny b*tch,\u201d or at least that\u2019s the term Meghan Trainor uses in her smash pop hit, All About &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/you-can-be-all-about-that-bass-and-the-treble-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[817,26,8440,247],"class_list":["post-100158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-health","tag-body-image","tag-celebrities","tag-homepage","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100191,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100158\/revisions\/100191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}