Female Singers - Halp?
Feb. 20th, 2010 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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!
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Date: 2010-02-22 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 02:09 am (UTC)by trying at all, if imperfectly, you're exposing yourself to some possible hurtful responses that assume you were trying to be hurtful yourself. And that's the part that's intimidating/off-putting moreso than the terminology.
I understand why it's intimidating, but as in my first paragraph, I think there's a wider range of publicly expressed opinions than that, though it's true I haven't followed this particular debate closely enough to be sure. Also, looking back on other debates, even if someone's opinion does differ from, say, that of various posts linked on linkspam, that person isn't going to be even close to ostracized by larger LJ/DW society unless they are frankly egregious in a way that rivals W*ll Sh*tt*rl*y (and he's still got quite a few fans, I think). In short, I think if someone really feels like they have something thoughtful to say about something like this controversy and really wants to say it publicly on LJ/DW... well, it's always the individual's call, but I think the possibility of angry responses isn't like... an oppressive force (or a less awkward phrase I can't think of).
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Date: 2010-02-22 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 03:26 am (UTC)My bad, I conflated two things I meant to say. Should be "how OSBP reflected implicitly racialized attitudes toward white women (people made posts going into the OP's language, in what I thought were fairly persuasive ways), how a lot of responses to OSBP reflected implicitly racialized attitudes toward chivalry & white women," and so on from there.
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:47 am (UTC)