co-written with her first husband, gerry goffin, was the earliest pop song in which a single woman expressed sexual self-awareness and the first-ever no. 1 hit by a girl group, the shirelles. it became the song of the year as john kennedy was sworn in as president. it jump-started ...
Picking up the baton from the Shirelles, rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion continued to push the envelope of female sexual expression by releasing "WAP," which features creatively explicit lyrics that incited backlash from conservatives. The Federal Communications Commission allegedly tried to su...
Picking up the baton from the Shirelles, rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion continued to push the envelope of female sexual expression by releasing "WAP," which features creatively explicit lyrics that incited backlash from conservatives. The Federal Communications Commission allegedly tried to su...
- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...
- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...
- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...
- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...
Carly Simon and Meredith Monk — while making some of the best records of the girl-group era between 1963 and 1965. Her voice had a sensible, wholesome quality that may have lacked the poignancy of the Shirelles’ Shirley Owens or the sexiness of the Ronettes’ Veronica Bennett but was pe...
- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...
- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...