Juxtaposition Post.

In Sheryl Crow’s song, “Woman in the White House,” she uses a woman who is standing with a picture of the White House between her legs which is the main focus point in the cover photo. This represents what the song is about or going to be about before the song even begins, without even looking at the title. The idea of having a woman as President has been brought up many times before. Sheryl’s use of the lyrics to the song explains how our country is in a deep hole because for the last 230 years, men have been running our country. If we, Americans, have a woman president, the way “we” as in women, (I use that turn because I, too, am a girl) think is completely different from a man’s way of thinking. Women do not “fight” and “fuss” as much as men do, according to the lyrics. “There’d be a lot more loving.” Women tend to be a lot more nurturing and loving rather than arguing and fighting which would change our country completely. Her message is very clear with how she thinks having a woman president will fix our country.

                

Sheryl also implies how the “mess we are in” was caused because men have been running our country since we had one. She states in the song how we can “Clean up capitol hill, with a shovel and a pair of high heels.” What she is saying when singing this is that because we have had no women run our country, they are just making it “dirtier and dirtier.” The stereotypical woman is someone who cleans up after a man. So by the use of these lyrics, she is somewhat using the stereotype of women to get her point across. She may have used this to attract males to this song as well, instead of just men. I feel she sold the song to both genders very well and definitely got her message across by the use of her lyrics.

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Priyanka Bhakta

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