Female Singers - Halp?

[beccatoria]

Hey guys
First off I'm really, really sorry I've been so crap about posting here lately and stuff. It's been a bit of a grind-you-down kind of couple of weeks. But I still love you all!

In other news, HALP ME.

For reasons that are far to long and boring to be of interest to many of you, I find that I need some suggestions for female singers, or bands with female lead singers, that I might like. My music taste tends to be somewhere in the vicinity of indie rock with various odd jaunts toward both singer-songwriter and rap artist. I like complicated lyrics. I like when not all the songs are about being in love. Or if they are, the lyrics are complicated and interesting. I like drumming. I like "strong" voices rather than "pretty" voices.

Here are some female artists I already like:

Florence and the Machine
Joan Baez
Tracy Chapman
Pat Benatar (shut up!)
Jefferson Airplane
Regina Spektor
Tori Amos (during her early years)

Any recs welcome!

Thanks guys!

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's cool. :) No one's eaten anyone else alive and I'm mostly not commenting cus I have no opinion but it's certainly all enlightening reading. Please don't take my silence as sullen. :)

Also I now feel the need to know what the hell 7th Heaven was... See? You're just determined to educate me in the ways of disability fail in the media aren't you? AREN'T YOU?! ;)

*uses poor sunned-Sam icon*

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Heh, "7th Heaven" was a long-running WB drama about a minister and his huge family (five kids, and later seven when the mom had late-season twins). It was ultra-sincere and message-heavy and meant to promote Christian family values. Which led to a lot of unintentional hilarity in its portrayal of, for example, working mothers, sex before marriage, alcohol, and whatever else the issue of the week was.

I don't think ever specifically had disability fail (actually I'm SURE they must have at some point, I just can't remember), it's just the quintessential example of a show that had *no idea* when it was offending somebody, as opposed to a show like "All in the Family" where much more extreme sexist/racist/terrible things were being said but that was intentional and making a point.


Edit: Oh my god, in the interest of inserting some levity into this thread, I just searched for "7th Heaven" on YouTube. This is the first clip I found. Now you'll mostly notice:

1. how hilariously bad the acting is
2. how hilariously bad the writing and directing is

But in the meantime, note the fact that around 1:30, an actual argument takes place when Lucy's husband realizes someone will SEE HIS WIFE'S VAGINA while she's giving birth and he insists on delievering it himself, and the counter-argument from her brother is that he can do it rather than "two strangers" (WHO ARE DOCTORS).