Vixen

Unfortunately, the hair metal industry didn’t have a lot of room for women in non-hood ornament capacities, which leaves Lita Ford and these fox-y ladies the non-dude representation in the field. “Edge of a Broken Heart,” the one for the ages, throws all their male equivalents’ insincere sad-guy breakup ballads right back in their pretty-boy faces. Otherwise, they match the bad boy boogies and lascivious leering punch for punch, making it even more tragic that the labels’ casual sexism prevented us from getting more of this POV.