The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists
Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100. — By Brian Raftery
AGE: 31
OCCUPATION: Singer
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Her caustic, catchy working-class anthem "Paper Planes" became 2008's flukiest hit single, despite its trigger-happy chorus. And her shimmying Grammy performance — delivered just a few hours before she went into labor — was a buoyant display of preg pride.
CON: "Planes" broke big thanks to a movie trailer — not radio. And she needs to chill with the all-caps MySpace screeds.
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