![]() Forums, chat rooms, and discussion boards facilitated mass conversations about pop culture in ways the world had never seen before. We've seen this play out time and time again, with Christina Aguilera and her heel-turn on Stripped, Taylor Swift's good girl gone bad era with Reputation, and even Beyoncé who explicitly rejected her role model status on her eponymously titled record, Beyoncé.īut when the internet arrived, something wonderful happened. Despite this, artists like Madonna, Lil' Kim, Nicki Minaj, as well as Lady Gaga all played valiant roles in stripping down archaic standards set in place by the music industry, relegated to playing the vamp in a business where women were expected to fit into one of two boxes. ![]() Instead of nurturing their careers or making music that authentically represented themselves, these stars were cornered into playing role models, with the only other choice being the villain. Most notably, in the early 2000s, the world watched as Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson were heralded as role models as they played into the whore/virgin dichotomy. ![]() For decades, female artists - rarely by their own volition - have pandered to audiences. ![]()
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