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"    Grimes; Photo: Getty Images   This week, Grimes, n\u00E9e Claire Boucher, gave us another reason to love her. The zeitgeist-y Canadian musician and 2013 ELLE Women in Music honoree revived her Tumblr, Actually Grimes, and posted a feminist manifesto of sorts, responding to haters, creeps, and anyone who generally isn&amp;#039;t on team Grimes. It&amp;#039;s a thoughtful reflection on how frustrating it can be as a young, female musician. If you haven&amp;#039;t read it yet, click here to do so. Although a trailblazer for the millennial set, Grimes is not, however, the first songstress to hop up on a digital soapbox to take her critics and the world to task. So, who mouthed off first? Lily Allen: The feisty British singer has always been vocal online\u2014spewing about everything from &amp;quot;vegan loons&amp;quot; to Catholicism.    In September the new mom was characteristically bold, tweeting to her 4 million followers about her pro-choice stance (&amp;quot;This is one of the many reasons I believe a woman should have a right to choose&amp;quot;) and how to be a good father (&amp;quot;These men should be applauded&amp;quot;). Zooey Deschanel: Don&amp;#039;t hate her because she&amp;#039;s twee. Like Grimes, Deschanel takes heat for her doe-eyed, girly appeal. But even as a 17-year-old, the actress and singer took up arms against anti-feminist notions of beauty by writing a screed against the culture&amp;#039;s increasingly impossible-to-replicate beauty standards. She penned, &amp;quot;Why would you want to limit the spectrum of beauty to an &amp;#039;ideal&amp;#039; when you, as a popular women&amp;#039;s magazine, have the opportunity to expand it?&amp;quot; May 2011, Grown-up Zooey tweeted an image of the note with props to her past agenda: &amp;quot;Proud of my feminist teen self.&amp;quot; Cat Power: When infamously volatile singer-songwriter Chan Marshall decided to address her uneven past, which included mooning an audience, kicking fans out of shows, and having full-on meltdowns onstage\u2014she didn&amp;#039;t opt for talk show rounds or an overwrought Tumblr apology. Instead, she made light of her reputation by making a Funny or Die video in which, she struggles to finish a concert for a group of elementary school kids (the letter &amp;quot;Q&amp;quot; is an emotional hurdle). Watch the graceful, hilarious statement here. Kathleen Hanna: If you want a lesson how to be a musician and mouthpiece of feminist activism, look no further than the lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Via her blog and Twitter @kathleenhanna, she was among the first to support the incarcerated Russian punk artists Pussy Riot, and she regularly addresses art, womanhood, and perception. Sample entry: &amp;quot;For some reason it made me think about a common criticism women artists get when they make work about their actual lives. They say &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s not art, it&amp;#039;s just therapy&amp;#039; because of course women are just emotional, and our art is never &amp;#039;real art.&amp;#039; As a response I want to say, &amp;#039;Yes, some of the lyrics to songs I&amp;#039;ve written are partly therapy and that&amp;#039;s a good thing not a bad one.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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