In an interview with Cosmopolitian, Keke Palmer explained her music video for “I Don’t Belong to You,” and she claims now that she’s a grown woman, she has a different perspective on her s*xuality and relationships.
Check out an excerpt from the interview:
Can we talk about ~tHAt tWisT~ at the end of the “I Don’t Belong to You” video — your character is seeing a guy and, drumroll, also a girl.
The video shows a female owning her sexuality, owning her sensuality, her womanhood. For me, it’s about coming into my own as I reach this point in my life, it’s about understanding that I can make my own choices — my body, my career, my lifestyle, and how I feel about who I am in the world, all different levels. I felt like a lot of my generation could relate to that, the people that are into what I do.
A lot of chatter surrounding the video is from people wondering if it represents a “coming out” of sorts for you, or just acting. Is that something you’d like to comment on at all?
Well, I think the point of the whole video was to let people know that that my s*xuality is up to me. I’m showing you a young woman who’s living her life, and I’m giving you the insight into what I feel like is a girl like me, looking into what her world might be like right now, this day in 2015. She doesn’t have to tell the guy that she’s with [that she’s with a girl too], she doesn’t have to tell the girl [that she’s with a guy]. All she has to do is say, “This is me, and I’m free to do whatever I want and be who I am.” And that’s really the point —it’s female autonomy and her being who she wants to be in the world; there’s no labels attached, she’s just doing her! She doesn’t have to explain it to anybody because at the end of the day, it’s her that decides what she wants to do, and who!
Check out her music video below:
So in other words, she wants to be promiscuous? I really don’t understand why this generation of young ladies seems to think promiscuity is the necessity to owning your own body. And if you are sleeping with multiple people at one time, the have a right to know. With all these diseases out here, people need to know what you’re doing when you’re not laid up with them.
And that’s what I got from what she was saying…..she tryna be Rihanna….she’s young tho. I was doing the most around that age as well. Hopefully she’s being safe out there cause she is gonna do what she wants to do….she’ll change up her thinking at 25 and then 30. Let her get all her “freedom” out now cuz to be an old Thot is not a good look LOL
*blank stare*
This is thot talk.
Oh Keke…
She’s young and going through that rebellion stage. In the real world, juggling multiple people at the same time and a full time job is very stressful to do. That’s why so many men calm down in their 30s. LOL.
And this kind of mentality is why HIV is at a all time high. Her thinking is off because if the roles were reversed and she was messing with a guy and that guy messing with another guy she wouldn’t be cool with that. But according to her dumb a-s thinking he doesn’t have to be upfront he just being free smh.
Girl shut the f-ck up. You don’t know sh-t about life, s-x and relationships yet until you at least turn 25. And honestly, you don’t know who the f-ck you really are until you’re 30.
Accurate. I shudder when I think about how much I thought I knew at 22.
I can’t tell a grown woman how to live her life but Keke sounds a little lost to me. It’s like she’s trying to appear like she’s deep but you can see she’s still trying to find herself.
Cute but I bet she would be mad as hell if a man exercised his options and didn’t tell her.
Girl bye.
She’ll learn eventually. She’s at the age where she’s probably going to make a lot of mistakes. Hopefully she learns from them and really finds herself.
Sometimes you should just do you and not explain. I’m almost certain this interview will resurface later on down the line.
Wait What? What is wrong with people now a days. All of a sudden no one wants a label. Ok, I get it, some things should not have a label but then there are some that require you to just pick a damn side. Come on stop running from life and choose a side. It’s like when sh* don’t go the way you think it is supposed to be; then it’s all the reteric conversation to attempt confusion of others. We see you. Claim grown, then be grown…own up to what you are doing, trying to do and call it what the hell it is. If it is a duck, it is a duck. Don’t say why do we have to call it a duck when we clearly see it is a duck.