Driving into work today I was flipping channels on the radio and came across Tom Cochrane’s Life is a Highway and I was transported back to 1991 and the end of high school, or at least what would have been the end had I ever bothered to finish high school.

Life is Highway is a great driving song, catchy and easy to listen to. It is no wonder that it was the song of the summer way back in 1991.

The song of the summer for 2013 seems to be Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It has been featured on The Colbert Report and even had a special feature on the VMA with Miley Cirus. (Which we will try to avoid talking about)

It too is catchy, musically speaking. The lyrics leave a little to be desired though. It is troubling to me (queue old man rant about music back in my day and how it has changed) that music today must be so denigrating to women, hyper sexualizing them in order to sell singles and video counts on Youtube.

I know sex sells. It always has. But things seem to have shifted somewhere along the way and not for the better. The hyper-sexualization of women and debasing them down to their body parts seems extreme these days, or at least more honest and up front.

For instance, instead of releasing a music video for the song Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke released two, both readily available on Youtube. Notice the difference in the second one?

We have become a culture that requires more and more that our women be chaste and pure just so that we can sacrifice them upon the altar of our fantasies. This is a disturbing trend.

Interesting that life’s highway has brought us yet again to the off ramp of needing a resurgence of feminism.