1.) "Lick It Before You Stick It" - Denise Lasalle, 2000
A Taste: "You're makin' her feel good, but you can make her feel better/ If you treat your lady like a stamp and a letter"

2.) "Downtown" - SWV, 1992
A Taste: "Go downtown/ To taste the sweetness"

3.) "Not Tonight" - Lil' Kim, 1996
A Taste: "I don't want dick tonight/ Eat my pussy right"

4.) "My Neck, My Back" - Khia, 2002
A Taste: "My neck, my back/ Lick my pussy and my crack"

5.) "Put It In Your Mouth" - Akinyele, 1996
A Taste: "Or you just could eat me out"

6.) "I Luv" - Too $hort featuring Trick Daddy, Scarface & Daz, 2001
A Taste: "I luv gettin' my pussy ate"

7.) "Candy" - Foxy Brown featuring Kelis, 2001
A Taste: "Let me know when you're ready to eat"

8.) "J.O.D.D." - Trick Daddy featuring Trina, 2004
A Taste: "Sucka suck on da clit/ Just suck on da clit"

9.)"Sugar" - Bikini Kill, 1993
A Taste: "What are you afraid of?"

10.) "Work It" - Missy Elliott, 2002
A Taste: "You do or you don't or you will or you won't cha/ Go downtown and eat it like a vulcha"

11.) "Face" - Rick Ross featuring Trina, 2009
A Taste: "Sittin' at the green light/ 'Cause I'm gettin' face."

12.) "Tongue Song" - Trina, 2000
A Taste: "Head like wut wut wut/ Hands all on my butt butt butt/ Ya need to lick it again c'mon"

13.) "How Many Licks" - Lil' Kim, 2001
A Taste: "Roll some weed with some tissue and close your eyes/ Then imagine your tongue in between my thighs"

14.) "Any Time, Any Place" - Janet Jackson, 1994
A Taste: "I can feel your hand moving up my thighs/ Skirt around my waist/ Wall against my face/ I can feel your lips"

15.) "Lick It" - 20 Fingers, 1995
A Taste: "You gotta lick it/ Before we kick it"

16.) "Glory" - Liz Phair, 1993
A Taste: "You are, you are shining some glory on me"

17.) "Red Light Special" - TLC, 1994
A Taste: "Take a good look at it/ Look at it now"

18.) "Where Life Begins" - Madonna, 1992
A Taste: "Dining in and eating out/ I guess that's what this song's about"

19.) "Twist" - Goldfrapp, 2003
A Taste: "Put your dirty angel face/ Between my legs"

20.) "Bliss" - Mariah Carey, 1999
A Taste: "Take it down low/ Make me get high"

Though the New York Times pop music section is edited by the incomparable Sia Michel, almost all of the writers are dudes. The editorial staff — particularly on the higher rungs — of Rolling Stone is mostly male. Of the twelve editorial staffers listed on Pitchfork's website, there are 2 women. Of course, the paucity of females writing about music in the most influential publications bespeaks a larger sexism in the music business. Yes, 50% of the top selling artists this week are female, but they're all, to a woman (Rihanna, Natasha Beddingfield, the abhorrent Katy Perry, etc.) beautiful, under 25, and singing pop. Several of them do not write their own songs, and their popularity is largely driven by their packaging, not their music.

In her review of whitechocolatespaceegg, Laura Sinagra writes, "Phair's genius has always been for fantasies sprung from the precise pen of the passive observer. Her first songs weren't about thinking on your feet, or slinging zingers at the straw-man rockboy she called Johnny Sunshine; they were about crafting retorts later in your bedroom and living off their power." Perhaps the future female music critics, as well as the future music makers, should use Phair's specific genius as guide.

Why Can't Women Be Geniuses Too? [Times of London]
What Makes You Happy [City Pages]