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n. A phrase suggesting female exuberance and independence, used to market several female musical groups, especially the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20Girls.
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The Twins' Girl Power is the Olympic-themed album released in June 2004. It comes in a special edition package. Included are:
- Six mini posters measuring 15" x 20"
- Twins Effect 2 beverage coaster
- Lucky draw scratch-and-win card for the music VCD
Similar to their previous albums, this album is larger than usual, using a large cardboard book-like package to carry the AVCD and posters. There are six different colored fabric bands wrapped around the package. Included is the theme song for Twins Effect II, 爱无敌 (Love is Invincible, track 07.)
The phrase "girl power" is used as a term of female empowerment, independence, and self-sureness. Girl power expressed a cultural phenomenon of the 1990s and early 2000s. It is also linked to third-wave feminism. The term was made popular by the Spice Girls in the mid-to-late 1990s.
"Girl Power" is the second single from The Cheetah Girls' self-titled soundtrack album The Cheetah Girls. It officially premiered on Radio Disney on August 19, 2003. The single was released officially on August 12, 2003. The song has a pop sound and was written by Ray Cham and Rawnna M. Barnes.
Girl Power is a queer feminist video made in 1992 by Sadie Benning with a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera. The video, which runs for 15 minutes, is considered at once a reflection on Benning's unhappy childhood and a celebration of her sexuality and the Riot grrrl subculture. The video was featured in "Pixel This Vision", a project organized by The Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series to "put together a program of the best of PixelVision"
The video is composed of home video footage featuring Benning as a young child, shots of notable pop culture figures ( Blondie, Matt Dillon), scenes of theft captured by security cameras, cropped text from riot grrrl zines, grainy clips of explosive war sites, segments from famous films and television, "a homophobic diatribe delivered by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell", and alarming alerts such as "violent youth fierce and furious!" and "get ready for the shock of your life". Benning supplements this collage of taped footage with a compilation of audio: Bikini Kill songs, the Sugarhill Gang's " Rapper's Delight", dialogue from television commercials, and her own voice over and first-person narrative.
While Benning's videos have often been called "coming-out" narratives and are mostly screened at gay and lesbian festivals, Girl Power has been recognized for its formulation of the adolescent girl as a "gendered sign of cultural reorientation". The emergence of the female child as a subject of feminist discourse, as demonstrated in Benning's work, is considered a major outgrowth of 1990s cultural phenomena, and appears in everything from scholar Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex to the music of pop icons, the Spice Girls.
Girl power is a term of female empowerment.
Girl Power may also refer to:
- Girl Power (video), a 1992 short film by Sadie Benning