Media (Yannig)

I’m sick of seeing the same faces
The same bodies on the television
To me it looks like a fuckin’ disgrace
We keep worshiping malnutrition

Fuck you, and fuck the media, too!

Kids having this sickness drummed into their heads
Looking for acknowledgement, in dread of rejection
If they won’t fit the scheme they see in magazines
They could be outta fashion, outsiders of the scene

What is told us to be good looking
Is based on being underweight
Ill + hungry for the sake of beauty
It’s this superficiality I hate

Fuck you, and fuck the media, too!

Kids having this sickness drummed into their heads
Looking for acknowledgement, in dread of rejection
If they won’t fit the scheme they see in magazines
They could be outta fashion, outsiders of the scene

We keep watching the same thin models
Exploited as an argument to buy
While victims of anorexia get younger
Just another disease we pass by


"The permanent confrontation with pictures of models obscures the fact that almost nobody can reach this 
absurd ideal. Beauty is considered feasible. This makes "lack of" beauty a personal failure.
...
Almost always is the establishment of "beauty" linked to pain or abstinence. Beauty means suffering. But the 
golden ways to reach the body longed for mainly enrich economic leaders. The beauty industry is booming like 
never before.
...
Beauty is relative: Our ideal of beauty is not god-given - as well as our perception of what is beautiful and 
what isn't. Nobody would've voluntarily lost weight in the baroque age. The particular ideal of beauty is not 
chosen by us. Strong economic and political interests have made the beauty-cult what it is today."

Source: http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/friseur/libk/posch2000.htm