It does seem like you can think of more female-lead groups that were better back when, doesn't it? I mean, even No Doubt has been around almost long enough to be eligible for Hall of Fame status. That's just it. There's not enough new female-led/female-having groups out there. It's good that the old ones have continued success, but it's a tricky narrative or something because you don't see many of them.
And you don't see them ANGRY in quite the same way that hard core male rockers can be. Only very rarely do you get that sort of edginess breaking through to common or even specialist, music-snob popularity. I have to believe that part of that is because of the pervading stereotype that good girls don't behave that way, and bad girls behave, well, slutty not shout-y. And? They do. Even the female-led bands like No Doubt and Garbage? Gwen Stefani is a sex object, no matter her ska-ish beginnings or incredible athleticism (THAT WOMAN'S ABS!!). And if she is a sex object, model-thin, model-pretty, frequently-actually-a-model Shirley Manson definitely is. And I wouldn't classify any of their music as shouty.
Not that it's bad to have sexy songs from females. Because the female is so associated with sex, I, too, find female songs sexy. Grace Slick? Stop me before I die listening to that woman.
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Date: 2010-04-16 04:16 pm (UTC)And you don't see them ANGRY in quite the same way that hard core male rockers can be. Only very rarely do you get that sort of edginess breaking through to common or even specialist, music-snob popularity. I have to believe that part of that is because of the pervading stereotype that good girls don't behave that way, and bad girls behave, well, slutty not shout-y. And? They do. Even the female-led bands like No Doubt and Garbage? Gwen Stefani is a sex object, no matter her ska-ish beginnings or incredible athleticism (THAT WOMAN'S ABS!!). And if she is a sex object, model-thin, model-pretty, frequently-actually-a-model Shirley Manson definitely is. And I wouldn't classify any of their music as shouty.
Not that it's bad to have sexy songs from females. Because the female is so associated with sex, I, too, find female songs sexy. Grace Slick? Stop me before I die listening to that woman.