Christina Aguilera, Feminist Queen


It's not just the pantsuit.

It's not just the scorch-earth singing.

It's the fact that the Godfather is there, in all his black and white glory behind her, like a guardian angel.

She, octaroon daughter of an Ecuatorian and an American, resplendent in technicolor white.

Before her, a roomful of jaws agape standing, and clapping and testifying; while a Jamie Foxx, one of the true believing fanboys, standing there, stunned and speechless seconds before the closing of the clip.

With just one performance she rises to feminist icon for a whole generation of girls with her possessed, Cassandra-like interpretation ...

This is a man's world
But it would be nothing, nothing
Not one little thing
Without a woman or girl
.

Hell yeah, Christina.

PREACH!


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It's the power of story

and that act alone was a whole novel.

She totally blew the roof off the place.


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And She

just blew the roof off my house!
Oh. My. God.
Feminist Favorite Daughter (who sings story too) and I stood here agape just now as it ended, looking, I feel sure, pretty much like Jamie Foxx!


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Beautiful!

The Godfather would be so intensely proud; she tore the sky off the earth with that performance!


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