BURBANK, CA  [Tuesday Feb.3.2004]  /WMQT.com/ -- Ignoring the entertainment industry before 1985, Sheryl Crow blames Madonna for women using sex to sell records.

Crow recently said that she believes that the current trend of scantily clad females topping the charts is the fault of Madonna and not because men enjoy seeing scantily clad women.

The singer says, "There's so much TV and so much exposure that a lot of these young girls can become successful overnight. With Madonna kind of ushering in the whole 'sex is power' thing, I think we got off course a little bit."

"There's so much sex. It's about the look and the image, less about the talent. You have to have a good choreographer, good hair. I just find that females really have to sell a little too much of the image and could maybe get more into content."

"Joni Mitchell was sexy - all those women that came out and wrote great songs were sexy, so we have to get back to that."

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