I don't hear the Benny song as a power ballad...just a bad pop ballad.
Perhaps a consensus on what constitutes a "power ballad" would help.
I'm no help as I'm not a fan of power ballads in the 1st instances.
Love songs aren't all power ballads while power ballads are love songs.

"Just like how the libs put their spin to the phrase..."
Ah, there we have it.
Lots of songs were about sexual conquest, lots of songs were about child women.
Lots of people now understand that those things are, to put it mildly, objectionable.
Lots of those songs are still fab songs because I, for one, can accept context and culture but there are exceptions.
Lots of people say "libs" without really knowing what it means, not wanting to put too tight a label on it which would limit its usefulness as a blunt object.
Woke folk are folk who woke up and recognize things in original and modern contexts. It's another term that has had a definition blunted by its repurposing as a weapon.
Awareness began A LONG TIME AGO when folk started treating each other rather better, with less racial, cultural, class and economic abuse/disdain/humiliation etc.
It was revived in the mid 70s...

Cheers
rayc
"What's so funny about peace, love & understanding?" - N.Lowe