Lily Allen's video for 'Hard Out Here' is a bit racist, but not to her The star sings about how women are still marginalised today ... but marginalises women in the video. WITH lyrics like "Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits" you might think Lily Allen's new single is causing a stir for its colourful language or take-no-prisoners feminism. But the girl-power anthem is turning heads for its video, which some viewers say denigrates its female dancers, especially the black ones. At the start of the film clip, Allen (who hasn't had a song out since the birth of her two bubs) is on the operating table having liposuction while a Svengali-style manager maligns her weight gain. Next minute, she's twerking with a posse of back-up dancers. Cue backlash. A screenshot from the Lily Allen video. The 28-year-old songstress has hit back at her critics, apparently not realising that racism is in the eye of the audience, not the artist. In a blog post yesterday she wrote: If anyone thinks for a second that I requested specific ethnicities for the video, they're wrong. If anyone thinks that after asking the girls to audition, I was going to send any of them away because of the colour of their skin, they're wrong," Allen wrote. The message is clear. Whilst I don't want to offend anyone. I do strive to provoke thought and conversation. The video is meant to be a lighthearted satirical video that deals with objectification of women within modern pop culture. It has nothing to do with race, at all. She goes on to say she worked on her twerk for weeks but couldn't dance nearly as well as the women in the clip. I'm not going to apologise because I think that would imply that I'm guilty of something, but I promise you this, in no way do I feel superior to anyone, except paedophiles, rapists murderers etc., and I would not only be surprised but deeply saddened if I thought anyone came away from that video feeling taken advantage of, or compromised in any way. What do you reckon, is Lily missing the point? Continue the conversation on Twitter. @newscomauHQ