Grrl Power

Sometimes I think that the 80s are to music what the Democratic party is to politics: a very big tent full of disparate viewpoints. You've got your elegant pretty boys, you've got your synth, goth and pop. A song could be big and orchestral (I'm thinking Roxy Music) or straight ahead, punk laced rock 'n roll (Pretenders). It was a decade that was all over the map, musically. (And maybe you could make a simimlar statement about most other decades and it just seems that way to me because I've been spending so much time finding videos and the immersion has gone to my head).

Anyhoo, another thing that was cool about the 80s was how many women there were making records. And there too you can find representations of just about every way to make music. This was the decade that gave us singers/songwriters as various as Chrissie Hynde, Annie Lennox, Madonna and Pat Benetar. And we even got stuff like this:



and this: