Some songs take time, not to mention the right artist, to become unforgettable hits. "Bette Davis Eyes" was first co-written and recorded in 1974 by Jackie DeShannon, offering a jazz-influenced soft ...

In a summer that’s seen a number of famously queer women shack up with men, JoJo Siwa is taking the Trad-wife Fantasy—a colloquial term for women who embrace old-school gender roles in ...

Kim Carnes has explained her feelings about JoJo Siwa’s new cover version of “Bette Davis Eyes,” which A took to No. 1 for five weeks in 1981. Carnes said she’d been concerned when she heard the two ...

Kim Carnes’s “Bette Davis Eyes,” has become a stone-cold queer classic. Need proof? Look at how both the coolest and the tackiest of modern queer pop stars have reinterpreted it just this month. The ...

The 80s took a little bit of time to establish its own musical identity. One of the first big hits of the decade to help distinguish it from what came before was “Bette Davis Eyes”, the song by Kim ...