WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL

You know, there are some tracks that when you instantly hear them, you just want to take things out of your way and dance your ass off, no matter where you are and who you are with. For me, Madonna’s What It Feels Like for a Girl is one of them.

The music video was directed by her then-husband, Guy Ritchie, responsible of die-hard testosterone injected films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The video itself portrays the perfect femme fatale, breaking all rules and doing everything a good girl shouldn’t do by entering the bad boys' world and proving that girls can be just as bad as them and even better, all of that while wearing high heels! In a way, it’s an undertone critique to society expressing dealings women have to be summoned since the beginning of civilization.

Little did I know that the voice of the girl behind the most haunting and mesmerizing lines at the beginning of the song is Charlotte Gainsbourg, which happens to be a personal friend and muse of Nicolas Ghesquière, designer (I prefer the term “creative director”) of Balenciaga and one of the living proofs of today’s most avant garde fashion. The lines were extracted from the film The Cement Garden (1993).

Girls can wear jeans

And cut their hair short

Wear shirts and boots

'Cause it's OK to be a boy

But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading

'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading

But secretly you'd love to know what it's like

Wouldn't you?

What it feels like for a girl

Clearly a work of art, what cha think?

That's it!