Lady Love

I love women. Love em. Although I'm 25 and don't quite consider myself a woman.. but saying "I love girls" seems kinda creepy. I love em so much I decided to make Gender & Women's Studies my minor. I occasionally get teased about it, which I can understand, fo sho. But I've learned too many interesting and important things in these classes, and have way too many gal-pals scattered around Canada that are way too cool and inspiring to dismiss Women's Studies as unnecessary, or to stop lovin' on ladies.

My respect for the ladies probably started in high school, after discovering women in music. Not all the Sarah McLaughlin and Chantal Kreviazuk bullshit. The women in music I'm talking about didn't need to put out annual compilations to prove that women were actually doing something in the music industry.

This is an ongoing list of all the ladies I consider to be major playas in the game. (I started writing it all at once but I started getting stressed out, and a blog that only 2 people read should not be stressful.) These are the ones, in no particular order, that started my admiration for women, shaped my taste in music and, I believe, music in general:

Feist

I started listening to Feist in 2004 when Let It Die came out. It's one of those perfect albums that is great to listen to at anytime of the day; morning noon and night I had this album on repeat. Although Feist's music is "parent-friendly" and she got pretty big on the radio, I think she's bad as hell. It could be when I saw her perform in Victoria and she completely lipped off the radio chick that introduced Feist to the crowd, calling her sound "adult-contemporary." I kind of stopped listening to her when 1234, my least favorite song on The Reminder became so overplayed on the radio. However, her new album Metals is amazing and combines perfectly Feist's sweet little voice with shouts, stomps and chants. (I love when female singers have male backup vocals) There's a lot of crescendos where the songs seem to completely change mid-way, which is one of my favorite properties in a song. This album is a little bit darker (can you use that word with Feist?) than her previous ones, as well as one of her best.

This is her very new and amazing video for "The Bad in Each Other"

does this post make me sound gay?