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" Jameela Jamil has defended Lily Allen&amp;#039;s controversial &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; music video. The TV and radio presenter took to her blog in defiance of the &amp;quot;racism debate&amp;quot; and approved of the use of women in the video to make a point about how they are treated &amp;quot;for impact&amp;quot;.      &amp;amp;gt; Digital Spy&amp;#039;s verdict on Lily Allen&amp;#039;s new single &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; &amp;quot;I can count 4 black girls and three white girls, not to mention Lily, who is fully involved in all of the licking, flicking and twerking,&amp;quot; Jamil said, providing examples of non-black dancers in underwear and being spanked. &amp;quot;It is almost racist to discount the girls who aren&amp;#039;t black,&amp;quot; the 27-year-old host of Radio 1&amp;#039;s chart show added. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just a bunch of women from all backgrounds dancing provocatively as they have for years.&amp;quot; Jamil also said that she doesn&amp;#039;t believe the video used female exploitation as &amp;quot;shock value in the guise of satire&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;The whole video is such an obvious and outrageous parody,&amp;quot; she continued.  &amp;amp;gt; Lily Allen&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039;: Our 5 favourite things about the video &amp;quot;She is merely making the obvious point that women are exploited in music videos. Which of course they are,&amp;quot; Jamil said, mentioning Nelly&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Hot&amp;#039; and Ludacris&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Area Codes&amp;#039; videos as existing examples. &amp;quot;Some of you say that she has further perpetuated the problem by again sexualising girls and having them all twerking in slow motion with champagne pouring down their lithe bodies,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;But how else can you show what you are revolting against, without SHOWING IT?&amp;quot; Jamil further argued: &amp;quot;When we watch films about murder and kidnapping, we know that we are being shown the horror of an act. We don&amp;#039;t expect Liam Neeson to just sit there for two hours and describe how bad it is\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 We need to SEE it. For impact.&amp;quot;  &amp;amp;gt; Lily Allen responds to race claims about &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; music video Jamil added that Allen&amp;#039;s video shows the issue &amp;quot;in its most honest light&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Nobody can argue that this is how the music industry is, and nobody can look away anymore because she has smeared it across our faces,&amp;quot; she asserted. &amp;quot;Marinading us in the shame that we as a collective have allowed this to continue for so long. If women don&amp;#039;t want to be objectified, then women have to take a stand.&amp;quot; Jamil concluded by revealing that she has experienced sexism herself and noted that &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; made her &amp;#039;applaud&amp;#039; for raising the issue, saying that Allen &amp;quot;didn&amp;#039;t just bitch and moan about the shackles the way the rest of us do... She took a sledgehammer and smashed the lock&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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