Spend any time at all on Twitter and you'll see this phrase pop up frequently - especially during performances. What, exactly, is a "girl crush" though? Thought you might be interested in reading this insightful, though sometimes academic, analysis.

<a href="http://maisonneuve.org/blog/2011/11/14/true-why-girl-crush-gets-us-nowhere/">http://maisonneuve.org/blog/2011/11/14/true-why-girl-crush-gets-us-nowhere/</a>

Girl crushes—when one woman “admires someone so much” that she “wants to be her”—were first mentioned in the New York Times in 2005, in a trend story titled “She’s So Cool, So Smart, So Beautiful: Must Be a Girl Crush.” The writer, Stephanie Rosenbloom, is careful to specify that these are hetero crushes she’s talking about. “Social scientists suspect such emotions are part of women’s nature, feelings that evolution may have favored because they helped women bond with one another and work cooperatively,” she writes. “What’s new is the current generation’s willingness to express their ardor frankly.”

The fact that the singer in the band we've all admired for so long for their musicality is now the frequent recipient of "girl crush" status? Well, that's another thing altogether isn't it?
