The Boot's Country Lady Jams playlist contains more than six hours of music. It mixes decades and tempos, but its overarching theme is that it's full of songs that are about, by and for strong women. Our rule in compiling this playlist was to select only one song from each artist --...
raunchy celebration of feminine sexuality, and hilarious to boot. It’s not just the extremely graphic turns of phrase –‘grab a bucket and a mop,’‘macaroni in a pot’ – that caused the prudes to sweat: It’s the fact that two women invaded the sexualised world of hip hop and ex...
Beyoncé and Ne-Yo created this song to raise awareness about women’s empowerment, but they also wanted it to be gender-inclusive. Although the lyrics were written from a female point of view, the song has a message that everyone can relate to. If your relationship is draining you, it m...
While explicit songs about sexy women can easily tip into sexual objectification, “Candy” expressed something closer to reverence for women who love sex and refuse to be pinned down. From Plan B’s 2014 album, Love And Sex,“Candy” put a spotlight on women who make pleasure their main p...
They’re the rough and dirty, strong and sturdy Hands of a working man” 25. Billy Ray Cyrus –“Busy Man” When you spend a lot of time at work as a parent inevitably you miss out. Billy Ray Cyrus sums it all up in his rootsy tune about a father who doesn’t buy lemonade from...
"Doing the Right Thing" by Daughter (about Alzheimers) "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult (Buck Dharma denied that the song was about murder-suicide; listeners disagreed about the meaning of "40,000 men and women everyday like Romeo and Juliet" who "redefine happiness") ...
” In short, it’s a song where Drake lets women’s voices take center stage, even as he chimes in to add, “I’ve got some love inside of me/Please drag it out of me.” A guest vocal from 2023 MVP SZA only adds to the appeal of “Rich Baby Daddy” as a sweet and summery...
By the early 1990s, a decade as a second-string guitarist-songwriter for Throwing Muses and three parallel years in the Breeders still hadn’t brought out the full range of Tanya Donelly’s talent for tweaking Gothic cliches about madwomen in attics. Using demos she had initially prepared for...
10. "Best of My Love," by The Emotions Lyrics you'll love:"Demonstrating sweet love and affection/That you give so openly, yeah/The way I feel about you, baby, can't explain it/Want the whole wide world to see" When it comes to recommended love songs, here's an upbeat ballad fro...
The month kicked off with the long-awaited, cliffhanger-resolving fifth season of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, and concluded with the debut of the fantastic new show about 80s women’s wrestling in L.A., GLOW. What did two of the greatest seasons of TV this year so far have in common, ...