Watch out Robin Thicke, Lily Allen is calling you out. On Nov. 12, Allen released her new single, “Hard Out Here,” with the song’s music video on YouTube. The song emanates girl power and is certainly making some stabs at the music industry for its treatment of women.

The video begins with Allen lying on an operating table, getting liposuction. Her agent and the doctor talk about her like she isn’t there, saying, “How can someone let themselves get like this?” Allen responds defensively, saying, “I had two babies,” referring to her daughters born in 2011 and 2013. As the video continues, we see how Allen critiques the music industry.

She features dancers scantily dressed, twerking and pouring champagne over each other. At one point, her agent is showing her how to eat a banana, and at another she is washing tire rims in a kitchen. Certainly, the twerking is reminiscent of Miley Cyrus earlier this year. Additionally, towards the end of the video, Allen dances in front of silver balloons spelling out “LILY ALLEN HAS A BAGGY P****,” making a direct jab at the video for Robin Thicke’s popular song, “Blurred Lines,” in which he has similar balloons spelling out, “Robin Thick has a big d***”.

The song was released for purchase on iTunes Nov. 17, and quickly soared to iTunes top 10, according to Entertainment Wise. Despite its high download numbers, the song and video have become extremely controversial. BuzzFeed devoted an article to the song, discussing if it was racist or satirical.

Many people on Twitter were criticizing the song because of the twerking dancers, who were mainly African American, saying it was racist. In response to these comments, Allen said, “The message is clear…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,” according to BuzzFeed.

She later goes on to defend her dancers saying if she could dance like them, she would have. The Guardian cites her as claiming she didn’t look for specific ethnicities for her dancers, she simply picked the best girls from the audition.

Despite the race controversy, the message from the song is clear. Allen is shedding light on some of the negative ways women are seen and treated in the entertainment industry. She mentions weight expectations: “You’re not a size six you’re not good looking… you should probably lose some weight, cuz we can’t see your bones.”

She also addresses double-standards concerning women’s sexuality: “If I told you bout my sex life, you’d call me a slut; them boys be talking bout their b******, no one’s making a fuss.” Again, regardless of any questionability about the video, Allen makes many significant points that women everywhere would understand.

After watching “Hard out Here,” Iona junior Joelle Cheatem said, “The contrast between her lyrics and the content of the video creates a powerful message. She talks about the injustices women face in their everyday life around appearance…while her video manifests her message by demonstrating what society deems as the ideal woman.”

It seems that with both positive and negative criticisms, everyone has to see the video to decide for themselves whether or not it’s “hard out here for a b****.”