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

[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).