So Beyonce showed that black girls have reached a level of liberation that enables them to act all slutty and still be considered decent, but still, there is a level that Beyonce would never descend to. White girls, on the other hand, have reached a level of confidence that allows them to be even more daring, and in this record Christina went all the way. The record was her freedom cry from the dolly image of her early career, and this freedom includes the ability to experience sexuality in all its forms. So Saturday Night Live could mock and say in her name that "when people see this video, they will stop thinking of me as some bubblegum music-industry ho, and start thinking of me as an actual ho", but many got the message. If you want to get down and dirty, that is your right, and it doesn't demean you.
Madonna, of course, said it ten years earlier. But Madonna's handling of sex always had something distant and ironic about it, as if she's just displaying sexuality, not experiencing it from within. Christina represents a freer generation, one that takes sex more naturally, and her attitude is funkier than Madonna's. Her catlike body and vocals do the rest.
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