Since everyone mostly seems to be waiting in the wings like a shy boy hugging the wall at a junior high dance, and it being ladies' night and all, I guess I'll go ahead and take your collective hands and ask, "I know it's a bit late, but may I have this mix?"
1. Missy Elliott-Work It: "Ain't no shame ladies do your thing/just make sure you ahead of the game." Word.
2. The Runaways- Cherry Bomb: I wish I was cool enough to run with these broads, but I have a feeling they'll straight up cut a bitch.
3. Janis Joplin-Piece of my Heart: Go look up just about any youtube vid of Janis on 1960s television. Now that's an iconoclast. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to hop in my car,visit a corporate coffee monolith and blog about how we're all pawns in the system, man, because i'm a total anarchist that way. Also, insert obligatory "Jackie Jormp-Jomp" reference here.
4. M.I.A.-Bamboo Banga: Not going to lie, when this song comes up on shuffle, I can't help myself from rapping along in highly accented mimcry: "Strike match/light fire/who's that girl called Maya?" Lines like "Barbarella look like she my dead ringer" display the sort of irreverant confidence and self-aggrandizing bravado that I wish more female artists would embrace.
5. Rupa and the April Fishes- une américaine à paris: I don't remember who turned me on to this artist, but bottom line, she's brown and she sings in French. Win.
6. Pretenders- Brass in Pocket: While the patronizing label of "girl power anthems" abound, this is one of those songs that seems to really embody a sort of empowering self-determination without being lame, (or female specific, really). Perhaps the flip-side companion to Janis Ian's At Seventeen? Together those two songs make for one mighty fine-soundin' bipolar disorder.
7. The Pipettes- Judy: Upon further inspection, this mix should really be called "being a chick often leads to less than desirable situations."
8. Metric- Glass Ceiling: Men- it's all gender apartheid-this, glass ceiling-that. Amirite, ladies?
9. Julie Brown- The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun: Bitches be shootin'.
10. Gillian Welch- My First Lover: Bitches be lovin'.
11. Blue States- Your Girl: Bitches be leavin.'
12. The Blow- True Affection
13. Bat for Lashes- What's a Girl to Do: Too expected?
Bonus:
Midnight Radio-I know I had Hedwig on my last mix, but I really couldn't resist putting this song on a ladies' night mix, what with it's name-dropping sassy brassy ladies like Yoko Ono and Tina Turner.
