--- title: Hillary Clinton Honors Lady Gaga, description: And she knows all the members of Fifth Harmony canonical: https://time.com/4134865/hillary-clinton-lady-gaga-billboard-women-in-music/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-03T17:19:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:05:39.678Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Hillary Clinton Honors Lady Gaga, Loretta Lynn in Billboard 'Women in Music' Essay og:description: And she knows all the members of Fifth Harmony og:url: https://time.com/4134865/hillary-clinton-lady-gaga-billboard-women-in-music/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3296f064671d968/698873aaab6d77dfb56a76a5/hillary-clinton-billboard-pop-music.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Honors Lady Gaga, Loretta Lynn in Billboard 'Women in Music' Essay twitter:description: And she knows all the members of Fifth Harmony twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3296f064671d968/698873aaab6d77dfb56a76a5/hillary-clinton-billboard-pop-music.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Honors Lady Gaga, Loretta Lynn in _Billboard_ Essay  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Dec 3, 2015 5:19 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaking at a Grassroots Organizing Event in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, Dec., 2, 2015. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaking at a Grassroots Organizing Event in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, Dec., 2, 2015.Willie J. Allen, Jr.—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Dec 3, 2015 5:19 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is coming out as a big pop music fan [in a letter she wrote](http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/6784929/hillary-clinton-women-in-music-essay-lady-gaga-loretta-lynn-exclusive) for _Billboard_‘s Women in Music issue, which honors the likes of Lady Gaga and Loretta Lynn. “I’ve been listening to some of these women for years,” writes the presidential hopeful, who recently [had Katy Perry join her at a campaign rally](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-katy-perry-iowa-rally%5F562c32d8e4b0443bb56433a6). “Others I recently discovered. Now I’m a fan of them all. Their talent is dazzling. So is their work ethic. None of these women had success handed to her. They all had to keep at it, even in the face of failure and discouragement — they kept ­singing, kept writing, kept getting better and better.” She also name-checks the likes of Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony (can _you_ even name all five?) and even ends her piece with a Lady Gaga pun. She might be the Democratic frontrunner, but she’s definitely the nation’s foremost Little Monster. The issue coincides with the magazine’s Women in Music event, which will also honor artists like Missy Elliott and Lana Del Rey and be televised on Lifetime on Dec. 18. Read Clinton’s [full letter over at _Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/6784929/hillary-clinton-women-in-music-essay-lady-gaga-loretta-lynn-exclusive). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4134865/hillary-clinton-lady-gaga-billboard-women-in-music/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4134865/hillary-clinton-lady-gaga-billboard-women-in-music/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Honors Lady Gaga, Loretta Lynn in Billboard Essay","datePublished":"2015-12-03T17:19:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:05:39.678Z","description":"And she knows all the members of Fifth Harmony","url":"https://time.com/4134865/hillary-clinton-lady-gaga-billboard-women-in-music/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Music","Lady Gaga"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3296f064671d968/698873aaab6d77dfb56a76a5/hillary-clinton-billboard-pop-music.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3296f064671d968/698873aaab6d77dfb56a76a5/hillary-clinton-billboard-pop-music.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton","caption":"Hillary Clinton wrote an essay for Billboard's Women in Music issue","creditText":"Willie J. 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