Women Who Don't Get The Proper Respect

I was sitting around thinking today about women in rock music. It was easy to think about those at the top of the list like Heart, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar. But then I started to wonder about the women in rock who don't get the credit they deserve. So I thought for the rest of the week, I will post about women in rock who just don't get the love they should.

Lets start with Liz Phair. First off, lets get it out of the way, she is gorgeous. OK, now, what i really love about her is probably something someone will criticize her for. This song "Extraordinary" is something she has not represented in the past. Liz has always been deemed the queen of alt rock. Early on she had indie success by trying to stay out of the main stream. Then she came out with an album that had a popish sound on it. Many people killed her for that. But when asked why she did it, she simply stated " I write whatever I want to, and don't care about what you want, it's my music". ( I am paraphrasing). If that's not a rock attitude, turn off your hearing aid and start watching The View.

The song is POWERFUL. She writes about how she is not an ordinary women and if the things she does startles you, too bad. The music has a great semi harmonic feel to it that allows it to be edgy and then still come around to a great hook in the chorus. The video has a great concept to it as well, show a lot of Liz, good formula.

So, she writes what she wants, has a great song writing talent, is a sort of chameleon when it comes to music, and oh yeah, she can rock with the boys and probably harder than some.

Then, why is she not considered one of the top women in rock? Maybe that's what makes her great.