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 superiore, in alto 40 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Taylor veloce, swift 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 Amore you!) to Rihanna 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 te need him?
Album sales are on the girls’ side, too. The two best-selling long players of 2009 were both da 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 Avatar of Musica 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 da 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 pertica, pesce persico last week da — te guessed it — a woman, a newcomer who goes da the name Ke$ha. The boys may be back on superiore, in alto this week, as Vampire Weekend ascends to No. 1 with their secondo album, Contra, but they’d better enjoy it while it lasts. Boyle’s January 19 sit-down interview with the Queen 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 da 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 superiore, in alto 10 single, “Hard,” Rihanna wields a machine gun, runs around in haute battle couture, catwalks across an exploding desert, and proclaims herself “the hottest cagna in heels right here.” Lady Gaga already offed her lover with a dose of poison in her “Paparazzi” clip, and everyone who saw her MTV Video Musica 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 affatica, fatiche and fight — for Amore 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 Amore you!) to Rihanna 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 te need him?
Album sales are on the girls’ side, too. The two best-selling long players of 2009 were both da 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 Avatar of Musica 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 da 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 pertica, pesce persico last week da — te guessed it — a woman, a newcomer who goes da the name Ke$ha. The boys may be back on superiore, in alto this week, as Vampire Weekend ascends to No. 1 with their secondo album, Contra, but they’d better enjoy it while it lasts. Boyle’s January 19 sit-down interview with the Queen 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 da 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 superiore, in alto 10 single, “Hard,” Rihanna wields a machine gun, runs around in haute battle couture, catwalks across an exploding desert, and proclaims herself “the hottest cagna in heels right here.” Lady Gaga already offed her lover with a dose of poison in her “Paparazzi” clip, and everyone who saw her MTV Video Musica 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 affatica, fatiche and fight — for Amore and continued chart dominance in pop’s battle of the sexes.
May the best women win.
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No good boys ever go to heaven
But it's loving wonderland
Open mouth baciare and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe that I met you
rosa champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So dj play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
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Hold your breath, count to 11
Bodies moving wonderland
Open mouth baciare and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe how I met you
rosa champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So DJ play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Take my hand
Talk to me baby
I got plans
No good boys ever go to heaven
But it's loving wonderland
Open mouth baciare and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe that I met you
rosa champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So dj play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
1234567
Hold your breath, count to 11
Bodies moving wonderland
Open mouth baciare and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe how I met you
rosa champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So DJ play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Take my hand
Talk to me baby
I got plans