Category — *Music Videos

I only learned about the original version of “Voices Carry” by ‘Til Tuesday when I was in the process of writing an article praising the video for an uncompromising glimpse into abuse by a good-looking, together-looking, charming “nice guy.” …

Re-watching Cagney & Lacey has got me thinking about the 80’s - my formative years - lately. I keep trying to figure out how I got a lot of positive feminist messages even though I was living in …

Saw the clip for Kelly Clarkson’s new song Never Again and all I can say is… never again will I have much respect for her [ETA] as a singer/music video star. In it, her boyfriend has presumably cheated …

There’s a hit song on the radio by Avril Lavigne called “Girlfriend”. Each time it came on, I listened more closely, past the catchy hook in the song, to what the lyrics were saying, and was appalled. The …

I put this article in ‘Women Musicians’, even though I would not consider the Pussycat Dolls to be musicians, or artists, or anything else that denotes credibility [admin’s note: then we changed the category to “women in music video”, which …

Watched the Fergie’s new video clip (for those who don’t know, she’s the female from the Black Eyed Peas) Fergilicious and all I can say is Ugh. Ugh. UGH!
What I can gather from the lyrics, it’s pretty inane stuff - …

Whenever I tell people one of my favourite albums in Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, I usually get a response such as “˜that feminazi bitch?’, and it always shits me. JLP is, IMHO, a very insightful album, written from the …

As far as being a singer goes, Madonna is nothing special. She has a mediocre voice and is a terrible actress. Her main talents lie in being a shrewd businesswoman, envelope-pusher and groundbreaker. Kind of like Prince.
In fact, Prince is …

I was watching the video clip for the Sugarbabes’s song Ugly yesterday. The song is about childhood insecurities - not being pretty/thin/tall/blond enough - and ultimately growing into and being true to yourself. The clip features dozens of people showing …

Rocker/rapper Ani DiFranco wrote a song called Sister Song which is about seeing women less as a/sexual beings and more as human beings. I first heard it as a Sarah McLachlan/Paula Cole cover, but I immediately recognised it as a …