My favorite band is probably 1/4 women, my second favorite band occasionally has female singers, and my third favorite band is 3/4 women.
I ADORE Martha Argerich, Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstead, Diamanda Galas, Jarboe, and Suzenette Lewis.
I adore female sung bands: Thinking Plague, Unexpect, Koenji Hyakkei(well, mixed vocals), Magma(also mixed), Art Bears, etc.
Sounds like ****load of good No Wave is also female led(A genre I've only seen the tip of the iceberg of). I adore opera, as well.
Women are very VERY capable of writing, and being involved with good music. The problem is that we have a very clearly chauvinist music industry that requires chicks to either:
A) Dance around in a thong.
B) Using femininity as a gimmick in order to sell CDs.
It's one of the main reasons I loathe people like Lady Gaga. There are worlds and worlds of extremely talented serious female musicians out there. In fact, open up your local newspaper in ANY city, and you'll probably find tons of advertisements for violinists, pianists, and serious female musicians of all variates.
I mean just cause you had to at one time endure this excruciating pain:
...shutters.
It doesn't mean you have to hate women. Blame the industry which is so based of cult of personality aesthetic it doesn't let an artist truly be him, or herself. Especially, if she is a chick who just wants to be treated like a serious musician, not specifically under the banner of "Hey, I got a vag. I got a vag.. see! No penis! I'm female, and that's all I think and sing about! Watch me shake my tits!"
Cause, underneath the surface there's some amazingly soulful serious female musicians out there, really. You just have to look.
/\ See, brilliance, personality, style, sophisticated advance melody. Notice, no thongs, no "Yeah! Grll Pwer!" Nonsense. No "Damn, I just wish I had a non-thinking drone of a hunk to be my husband" idiocy. Intelligent music, created by a woman, performed by women, and proof infinitely that it's unfair to stereotype or pigeonhole.
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