Music is either good or bad. It doesn't really matter who's making it, male or female. It seems to me, though, that unless a girl pop star is a sex icon, guys could rarely give a crap. I don't know many guys who like the Indigo Girls or Ani DiFranco. And if they say they do, they are probably just saying that to make girls like them.

Guys like sex-icon girls (e.g. Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Debbie Gibson) because when girls are singing it's fun to pretend that they are singing to you. As a guy, our thoughts are like, "Hey, I know what a girl wants and what a girl needs," or "Hey, I drive girls crazy," or "Hey, people want to love me forever," or "Hey, I've got the moves to make the world go around, Electric Youth!"

Plus these songs are littered with sexual references which guys have no trouble digesting. For instance, Britney Spears: "I'm so excited, I'm in too deep." Or Jessica's "Pour yourself all over me and I'll cherish every drop here on my knees." Oh yeah, and "Hit you with what one more time?" There isn't any mistake about it. I'm pretty sure old men wrote these types of songs that are still in touch with the way they felt when they were young and ugly and could only dream about girls like Britney or Jessica. They are just trying to make the ugly men of today less frustrated. A noble task.

And girls have their little fantasy musical men, too. Like 98 Degrees, The Backstreet Boys, NKOTB and Meat Loaf, among others. The same goes for them, except I'm pretty sure that the same old men write their songs too.

Some really good girl bands that I like are September 67, Barbara Manning and Chug.

p.s. Check out the Olson twins. I know they aren't in music, but they keep getting hotter!

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