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

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

I apologize in advance if I'm reading too much into your comment, but I don't think anyone here has invoked any "POC cabal," nor is likely to since this is not a race issue as far as I can tell. And I would like to consider myself:

rocking with the feminism / anti-ableism / anti- rape culture

and I still have issues with some of the criticism of Amanda Palmer I'm seeing. I don't think I'm being persecuted or oppressed or ~silenced~ by people choosing to frame the discussion in those terms; I just think it's inaccurate.

[chaila.livejournal.com]

Eh, as to the first part, that's my fault. I halfway invoked some larger context that does have to do with discussions of racism without being very clear. There was an earlier, um, discussion about definitions of "derailing" and the specific way it was being used very broadly in some circumstances. And (generalizing here!) some people responded to it with assertions that a small group of people, often involved in discussions about racism, were actively attempting to control who said what on LJ/DW. And while I had thoughts about that, I didn't really explain them and was kind of implicitly bringing them up by invoking "derailing" specifically with heavy amounts of snark. (And while I obvs had stuff to say about that, I didn't say it and shouldn't bring it here! *SNUGGLES BECKA <# <# <#*)

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm being persecuted or oppressed or ~silenced~ by people choosing to frame the discussion in those terms; I just think it's inaccurate.

Well, true, I know people who value those things are not a monolith! Or, you know, a cabal. :) chaila43 covers what I was responding to (and her original response to the comment you're referring to was in that context - my comment probably looked like a non sequitur out of that context).

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

Thank you for clarifying. :) The context sailed right over my head..

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

No prob!