Way back in the day, Radio 2 presenter Sara Cox was known for being a bit of a partying ladette, in with Oasis and the Appletons and keen on frequenting the Met Bar (the place to go to in the ’90s if you were anyone who knew anyone, the equivalent of The Box). Though she’s left part of that life behind, she's spoken half fondly about it today, saying: ‘It was all a hedonistic hotbed, what with Ibiza and the club scene, too - just everyone going out partying.’
So far, it sounds like she would be totally in tune with Radio 1’s happy-go-clubby playlist of rappers banging on about getting nailed (in every way possible) in glossy clubs on the regular. However, she’s spoken out against her previous radio station, complaining that making the jump to the more adult Radio 2 was made a lot easier by the prospect of not having to play Pitbull on her show.
‘Someone like Pitbull on Radio 1 makes my soul weep with the way he sings about women. I just couldn’t bear playing that,’ she told the Radio Times.
Pitbull is perhaps the latest but sadly no doubt not the last male musician to use women in his videos to grab attention. We previously did a little rundown of exactly how rank his video for I’m A Freak with Enrique Iglesias is, and although Timber, his duet with Ke$ha is really catchy – especially when you change the lyrics and subject to Tinder – it is a real shame it has to contain lyrics like ‘I have 'em like Miley Cyrus, clothes off/ Twerking in their bras and thongs, timber/Face down, booty up, timber.’
We’re hardly about to mount a war against Pitbull – last year’s fight against Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines did little more than get a lot of people mad and potentially ruin his marriage – but we’re right with you on this one, Sara. And if someone who used to count Liam Gallagher as a pal is making these sorts of stands, then we should all take note.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.