Not only are sisters doing it for themselves, but lately in pop music, they’re pushing the boys off to the side. While once-hot male stars like Usher, Chris Brown and 50 Cent struggle to inch into the चोटी, शीर्ष 40 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Taylor तत्पर, तेज, स्विफ्ट swing, hit and score with single after single.
In song, they don’t even need the comfort of a man anymore. Lady Gaga flaunts her bisexuality in her signature hit “Poker Face,” a woman makes a confession (I प्यार you!) to रिहाना on the dance floor in the Rated R track “Te Amo,” and in one of the biggest singles of the last two years, Katy Perry kisses a girl — and she likes it. Where’s Justin Timberlake when आप need him?
Album sales are on the girls’ side, too. The two best-selling long players of 2009 were both द्वारा women: Taylor Swift’s Fearless came out on top, with 3.2 million units sold, while Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream moved 3.1 million in the final weeks of the decade to become the year’s second-biggest seller.
But it was the Boyle album that emerged as the अवतार of संगीत at the end of 2009. For several weeks there, the tops of the pops on the Billboard 200 album chart felt like the summer box office, only instead of being dominated द्वारा testosterone-fueled blockbusters, the headliners were all packing estrogen. The only two serious threats to Boyle’s chart supremacy, Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige, also outsold every guy in sight.
In the end, Boyle was knocked off her बसेरा, पर्च last week द्वारा — आप guessed it — a woman, a newcomer who goes द्वारा the name Ke$ha. The boys may be back on चोटी, शीर्ष this week, as Vampire Weekend ascends to No. 1 with their सेकंड album, Contra, but they’d better enjoy it while it lasts. Boyle’s January 19 sit-down interview with the क्वीन of all power women, Oprah Winfrey, all but guarantees her a quick return trip to the top.
Meanwhile, the most eagerly anticipated album of the new decade? Soldier of Love, a 10-years-in-the-making opus द्वारा a very famous lady: Sade. The warrior reference is fitting. Though male-dominated Oscar-season war films like The Hurt Locker, The Messenger and Brothers paint a different picture, in music, the girls are just as fighting fit as the guys.
In the video for her current चोटी, शीर्ष 10 single, “Hard,” रिहाना wields a machine gun, runs around in haute battle couture, catwalks across an exploding desert, and proclaims herself “the hottest कुतिया, मतलबी in heels right here.” Lady Gaga already offed her lover with a dose of poison in her “Paparazzi” clip, and everyone who saw her एमटीवी Video संगीत Awards performance last September knows she’s not afraid to get a little bloody. Now we’ve got Sade, pop’s empress of cool, ready to don her वर्दी, थैली, बांधे and fight — for प्यार and continued chart dominance in pop’s battle of the sexes.
May the best women win.
In song, they don’t even need the comfort of a man anymore. Lady Gaga flaunts her bisexuality in her signature hit “Poker Face,” a woman makes a confession (I प्यार you!) to रिहाना on the dance floor in the Rated R track “Te Amo,” and in one of the biggest singles of the last two years, Katy Perry kisses a girl — and she likes it. Where’s Justin Timberlake when आप need him?
Album sales are on the girls’ side, too. The two best-selling long players of 2009 were both द्वारा women: Taylor Swift’s Fearless came out on top, with 3.2 million units sold, while Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream moved 3.1 million in the final weeks of the decade to become the year’s second-biggest seller.
But it was the Boyle album that emerged as the अवतार of संगीत at the end of 2009. For several weeks there, the tops of the pops on the Billboard 200 album chart felt like the summer box office, only instead of being dominated द्वारा testosterone-fueled blockbusters, the headliners were all packing estrogen. The only two serious threats to Boyle’s chart supremacy, Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige, also outsold every guy in sight.
In the end, Boyle was knocked off her बसेरा, पर्च last week द्वारा — आप guessed it — a woman, a newcomer who goes द्वारा the name Ke$ha. The boys may be back on चोटी, शीर्ष this week, as Vampire Weekend ascends to No. 1 with their सेकंड album, Contra, but they’d better enjoy it while it lasts. Boyle’s January 19 sit-down interview with the क्वीन of all power women, Oprah Winfrey, all but guarantees her a quick return trip to the top.
Meanwhile, the most eagerly anticipated album of the new decade? Soldier of Love, a 10-years-in-the-making opus द्वारा a very famous lady: Sade. The warrior reference is fitting. Though male-dominated Oscar-season war films like The Hurt Locker, The Messenger and Brothers paint a different picture, in music, the girls are just as fighting fit as the guys.
In the video for her current चोटी, शीर्ष 10 single, “Hard,” रिहाना wields a machine gun, runs around in haute battle couture, catwalks across an exploding desert, and proclaims herself “the hottest कुतिया, मतलबी in heels right here.” Lady Gaga already offed her lover with a dose of poison in her “Paparazzi” clip, and everyone who saw her एमटीवी Video संगीत Awards performance last September knows she’s not afraid to get a little bloody. Now we’ve got Sade, pop’s empress of cool, ready to don her वर्दी, थैली, बांधे and fight — for प्यार and continued chart dominance in pop’s battle of the sexes.
May the best women win.
We are a generation twisted द्वारा our myth
Confused and ludicrous, holding on to love
Consumed द्वारा all the pleasures in our midst
A life without the lips we've kissed
And losing all control
We're gonna start a resistance
So we want independence
We're gonna give the world some of this
Electric kiss
I'm gonna change the world with my lips
One voice forever
We'll live together
Peace, love, solitude and happiness
Electric kiss
Fame is our felony
We're so in प्यार with it
Superstars and masochists
Who don't know where to go
But the poets and the fathers of our time
Put down their weapons in their arms
And know what they must do
We're gonna start a resistance
So we want independence
We're gonna give the world some of this
Electric kiss
I'm gonna change the world with my lips
One voice forever
We'll live together
Peace, love, solitude and happiness
Electric kiss
I'm gonna change the world with my lips
One voice for ever
We'll live together
Peace, love, solitude and happiness
Electric kiss
Confused and ludicrous, holding on to love
Consumed द्वारा all the pleasures in our midst
A life without the lips we've kissed
And losing all control
We're gonna start a resistance
So we want independence
We're gonna give the world some of this
Electric kiss
I'm gonna change the world with my lips
One voice forever
We'll live together
Peace, love, solitude and happiness
Electric kiss
Fame is our felony
We're so in प्यार with it
Superstars and masochists
Who don't know where to go
But the poets and the fathers of our time
Put down their weapons in their arms
And know what they must do
We're gonna start a resistance
So we want independence
We're gonna give the world some of this
Electric kiss
I'm gonna change the world with my lips
One voice forever
We'll live together
Peace, love, solitude and happiness
Electric kiss
I'm gonna change the world with my lips
One voice for ever
We'll live together
Peace, love, solitude and happiness
Electric kiss
Damn I प्यार the Jag, the jet and the mansion
Oh yea
And I enjoy the gifts and trips to the islands
Oh yea
It's good to live expensive आप know it but
My knees get weak, intensive
[Chorus]
When आप give me k-kisses
That's money honey
When I'm your lover and your mistress
That's money honey
When आप touch me it's so delicious
That's money honey
Baby when आप tear me to pieces
That's money honey
That's M-O-N-E-Y, so sexy, I
That's money honey
Damn I'd प्यार a नाव द्वारा the समुद्र तट on the west coast
Oh yea
And I'd enjoy some fine champagne while my girls toast
Oh yea
Its good to live expensive आप know it but
My knees get weak, intensive
[Chorus]
आप know I appreciate the finer things
But it's not what makes me happiest baby
{I can do without it babe}
Your tender loving's और than I can handle
Never burn out this candle baby, baby
[Chorus x3]