Girl Power

This is nothing new (that is, if you pay attention to the world of popular music), but girls have kind of, well, taken over. This past year Lady Gaga, Kesha, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, La Roux, and countless others spread across each and every genre have taken over the charts. AOL looked at the top ten songs so far this year and out of the ten, four are by female artists and two are by males and feature a female artist and one is by a co-ed country band by the name of Lady Antebellum.

http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/02/03/best-songs-of-2010/

It's not just in music, but in acting and politics too. Earlier this year Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director, toppling James Cameron, the director of Avatar. She was the first woman to receive this award. In politics, Christine O'Donnell is stirring up ripples in Delaware where she threatens to uproot long nine-term U.S Congressman Mike Castle. Of course, I'm not personally advocating her (she's a Tea Party chick and I try not to pin myself down to a particular party), but she's paving the way. Even in colleges, girls are surpassing boys in record numbers.

I'm not trying to sound like a feminist, mostly because I'm not one. But, as a girl, it's hard to ignore this shifting in the world. Besides, I see this as a good thing. Maybe, in a couple years someone will redo that oh so famous song, "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" by the hardest working man in show biz, Mr. James Brown, so that it reflects the world we live in. Who knows, around here, almost anything is possible.

-Whitni

PS- I am aware it is no longer summer, but seeing as this project is far from done, let's continue the fun! I'm not one to start things and never finish them, except for when it comes to writing stories, so sit down and buckle up. This sound be fun. For you lovely readers, if you're out there, I hope you continue to read and even comment (it won't bite, I promise) because, you know, we music lovers have got to stick together.