00:00Ooh, look what you made me do.
00:02Rihanna! Yes, of course, I love RiRi.
00:05I think she's done really great things for women.
00:08Peak woman energy.
00:09What's up, you guys? I'm Lauren Ashley Beck,
00:11and as Billboard's Women in Music quickly approaches,
00:13I had to hit the streets of L.A.
00:15and talk about the top women in music of the 21st century.
00:18Let's hit it.
00:19All right, so we are here talking about
00:20powerful women in music.
00:22Who would you say is one of your favorite
00:23powerful women in the music industry?
00:25Go with a legend like Mariah Carey.
00:27Endless hits, not just with just songs on the radio
00:29or commercial, but also holiday songs,
00:31you know, Christmas songs, Christmas jingles.
00:33She is Miss Christmas.
00:34What's your favorite Mariah Carey song?
00:36Always Be My Baby.
00:37âȘ Cause you'll always be my baby âȘ
00:41Da-da-da-da-da.
00:42What feeling would you say that you get
00:44when you listen to Mariah?
00:45There's always a feel-good, mature, sexy feel.
00:48It's always classical music, like timeless music.
00:51I feel like our music transcends over to many decades
00:54and generations to come.
00:55What do you think the music industry
00:56would be like without Mariah Carey?
00:58I feel like it'd be a huge piece of influence,
01:01especially somebody who's multi-gifted,
01:03like I was saying, and different genres across.
01:05She's like a hybrid, you know?
01:06They'd be missing a huge piece on how to be diverse
01:09with their music.
01:10I feel like she really influenced the game with that.
01:12So you're here from New York, and you love who?
01:15Lady Gaga.
01:15Lady Gaga.
01:16âȘ Baby, you'll be famous, just you tell me till you love me âȘ
01:21Papa, papa.
01:23Paparazzi.
01:24You're so good.
01:25Stop being good.
01:27He still wanted to go.
01:28âȘ I wanna tell that boy he's mine âȘ
01:31I wanna ask you, what do you think the music industry
01:33would be like without someone as impactful as Lady Gaga?
01:36Oh, boring.
01:37I mean, it's also, I think, women.
01:39I think she's done really great things for women.
01:42She's so creative, she's so smart and beautiful,
01:46and she just seems like a good person, too.
01:49Tell me who one of your favorite women in music is.
01:52Rihanna, yes, of course, I love Ri-Ri.
01:56Period, bad girl Ri-Ri.
01:58What would you say is your favorite song by Rihanna?
02:00I have a few.
02:01Okay, Needed Me, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work.
02:05âȘ Tell me about that work, work, work, work, work, work, work âȘ
02:08How do you feel when you listen to Rihanna's music?
02:10It feels great, it makes me feel good.
02:13I just be feeling real happy, real excited,
02:16in the mood to just turn up.
02:18If Rihanna was not in the music industry,
02:20what do you think it would be like?
02:22I feel like it would be no good music, honestly,
02:25because she brings, and then her accent,
02:27like everything about her is just a vibe.
02:30Who would you say is one of your favorite pop artists
02:32of this century?
02:34âȘ We're young and we're reckless âȘ
02:36âȘ We'll take this way too far âȘ
02:39Taylor Swift.
02:39Period.
02:40Do you remember the first time you ever heard Taylor Swift?
02:43Actually, yes, it was blank space in like middle school.
02:46Yeah, what is one of your favorite Taylor Swift songs?
02:49Definitely Look What You Made Me Do.
02:50Let me hear a little bit of it.
02:53Ooh.
02:53âȘ Look what you made me do, look what you made me do âȘ
02:57âȘ Look what you made me do, look what you made me do âȘ
03:00What is the feeling that you have
03:02when you listen to Taylor Swift?
03:03Just like peak woman energy, just from all of her songs.
03:07Period, that's all you gotta say, yeah.
03:09I had so much fun out here today.
03:11If I had to say my favorite woman in music,
03:13it is definitely SZA.
03:14She's 30 for 30, isn't she, chat?
03:16If you wanna see the full 100 list,
03:17head over to billboard.com.
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