Taking Control of Daddy Issues

“This is a story about control. My control. Control of what I say, and control of what I do. And this time, I’m gonna do it my way.” –Janet Jackson, Control In 1986, the year that Janet Jackson became my role model, she provided a template for breaking free from a domineering father in theContinue reading “Taking Control of Daddy Issues”

Who Run the World (and the South)?

Nowhere has the influence of Southern women been so fully realized as in popular music.