This final playlist of Women’s History Month concludes with a celebration of the ladies of the raddest decade of all time: the eighties.
Madonna was “touched for the very first time” and Olivia Newton-John moved on from “Grease” and got “physical.” What a time to be alive (or not, like many of us ‘90s kids).
Queen of androgyny Grace Jones turned the 1980s New York arts scene on its head and managed to make some damn good music in the process. Just check out her cover of Iggy Pop’s “Nightclubbing” for proof.
Salt-N-Pepa blazed the trail for modern pop/hip-hop acts with their infectious hit “Push It,” which the ladies are still capitalizing on to this very day in TV commercials.
This synthesizer-heavy playlist is pure fun from start to finish, and the variety of different genres shows just how unique and special the totally tubular decade really was for music.
11 songs, 44 min.
- Kim Wilde – “Kids in America”
- Madonna – “Like a Virgin”
- Salt-N-Pepa – “Push It”
- Olivia Newton-John – “Physical”
- The Pointer Sisters – “Jump (For My Love)”
- Grace Jones – “Nightclubbing”
- Laura Branigan – “Gloria”
- Cyndi Lauper – “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
- Bananarama – “Cruel Summer”
- Kate Bush – “Love and Anger”
- The Go-Gos – “Our Lips Are Sealed”