ABSTRACT
While Madonna was breaking into the pop mainstream in the US, and Morrissey was stirring up trouble for young fans in Manchester, surprising changes in the representations of certain female pop stars were taking place in the UK. No pop star quite challenged stereotypical gender roles to the extent that Scottish-born Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics did. By 1983, Lennox had achieved international stardom with the Eurythmic's first hit 'Sweet Dreams Are Made of This'. Meanwhile, by the time Lennox released her first solo album, Diva, in 1992, as a mature mother, she had established herself as a pop diva. Upon establishing a partnership with Dave Stewart and their formation of the Eurythmics in 1981, Lennox's image became wrapped up in an array of teasing images of sexual ambiguity. An approach to interpreting the tonal shadings of Lennox's voice can be invoked by considering its technological juxtapositioning in the confines of the sound recording and the video.
