Best feminist anthem by a soul singer?

[NightTrain]

NOTE: I only included songs by female soul singers, but some male soul acts got into the feminist bag, as well. Remember "Who's Making Love" or "Thin Line Between Love and Hate?"

[TroubleMan]

1. LOL...My wife's a big Peggy Scott Adams fan

I had to vote for her - she definitely didn't take no shit!!

[calico1]

2. You left out my favorite:

"I Will Survive"--Gloria Gaynor :)

[LoZoccolo]

3. I always thought it was ironic...

...that "Lady Marmelade" starts out with what seems like this feminist thing, "hey sister go sister soul sister go sister", and then the rest of the song is about a prostitute.

[OpSomBlood]

4. R-E-S-P-E-C-T

How can you leave this off the list?

[Elidor]

7. Find out what it means to me

sockittome-sockittome-sockittome
Yeah, how could NightTrain leave that one out? Then again, he thinks Foreigner's Urgent was the best song of whatever year it came out. :P

[Jade Fox]

5. Sisters Are Doin It For Themselves-Areatha Franklin/Annie Lennox

But I voted for 'Want Ads'.. great choices

[Kahuna]

6. You are so crazy. "Respect." Duh. ReeRee ain't gonna like this mess!

And with the absense of the Queen and her fabulous song, you get a double Zorro snap.

:eyes:

[NightTrain]

8. ON EDIT: Added 'Respect' and 'I will Survive.'

Damned fading memory! :eyes:

[Kahuna]

15. You still crazy. What about "Contol" by Janet Jackson? Or even.

"What Have You Done For Mr Lately?" Oooo oo oo yeah... But. you only get one Zorro snap this time. :7

[eaprez]

9. Millie Jackson!

She takes NO PRISONERS!

[NightTrain]

10. Yeah, but which song?

"My Man Is A Sweet Man?" "Ask Me What You Want?" "Hurts So Good?" Great songs, but hardly feminist!

[chaska]

11. What's that song...? "I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan..."

Cause I'm a wo'-man
W-o-m-a-n, I'll say it again.

[chaska]

12. Hey, wait a minute - where's Helen Ready?

I'm jus' sayin'....

[TroubleMan]

16. She's not technically a soul singer.

Please don't roar at me.

[Kahuna]

17. The is a soul singer poll. Helen is a pop singer...

:hi:

[chaska]

20. What Kahuna, you don't think Helen Ready's got soul?

I suppose you think Pat Boone doesn't have soul either?

[riverwalker]

13. Dinah Washington used to have a song

with the line "why you always say I'm cheatin'? None of my other men say that". Always cracks me up.
The Nina Simone had the sexiest song with "I want a little suuuugar in my coffee".

[riverwalker]

14. Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child"

(thats got her own) is also feminist anthem.

[Kahuna]

18. I think that's a child's anthem...

:shrug: After all... The song says, 'God bless the child.' Not, 'God bless the woman.' As such it applies equally to males.

[NightTrain]

19. Kick for the stay-at-homes

[davsand]

21. What?? Grace Jones isn't even on the list???? No Yvonne Fair either???

I am amazed, I tell you!!!

Have you ever heard Grace's version of BULLETPROOF HEART?? THAT is a pissed off woman!

lyrics here: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grace-jones/61811.html


Yvonne Fair was a protege of James Brown, and she just nailed it dead on a couple of times on her album "The Bitch is Black - IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME is one that you CAN find on line from time to time, (they used the song in that movie, Bridget Jones' Diary, I think.)

That is more of a heartbreak song, but she did another one on that album called Walk Out The Door If You Wanna that just rocks the house--and she is telling her man that if he walks out that door he CAN and WILL be replaced.

Gotta love those pissed off ladies--they gave me hope sometimes when i was sick to death of the men i knew!


Laura

[Colin Ex]

22. I nominate the mall-feminist anthem Lady Marmalade.

When I think feminism, I think "Will you please sleep with me"!

I for one welcome our new feminist masters (mistresses).

-C