Frownland

It's really the same as with any male singers, but one factor is being able to sing along with the singer of the band, and with some bands like Jefferson Airplane I can sing along with the women but with other bands I can't do so well. I tend to listen to music with more male singers, most of the women singers I enjoy make psychadelic music.

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mr dave

I think a lot of the backlash comes from the fact that a lot of times (especially in rock music) a female vocalist is just being used as a sex symbol to draw attention to the band. She's living up to the classic rock stereotype while ignoring the subtle misogyny implied by her role (ie: women can't actually rock, they can only sing - for a band of men).

Janis Joplin is a very easy classic example. She had a great voice and ability to lead a crowd. But she started as the singer for Quicksilver Messenger Service, and as such, her job was to sing. That was it. SHUT UP and just do what the men tell you to do. It was only close to the end of her career and life that she split from that group and started getting her own act together, and it was apparently coming together nicely prior to her untimely end.

I keep seeing the same thing over and over and over again in so many bands. There was a thread about women in rock a while back and the majority of the clips posted featured the exact same thing every time. A band of dudes with a cosplay girl playing the exact same kind of metal as every other band in their subgenre with vocals that sound like every other band in their subgenre only they get a bunch of extra attention because the vocalist has boobs. It's slowly changing but for every woman I see rocking out on an instrument I see 100 being propped up in front of some lame genero-rock band to try getting attention the dudes on the instruments were never able to achieve on their own.

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Goofle

^ Agree with that, but I don't think any genuinely great bands have a female singer used as a "sex symbol". They may play on their sexuality, but not in the same way that Hayley William (Paramore) etc. would do it.

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prettymachine

I don't care for too many female singers. I think the last one I liked was Azure Ray.

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mr dave

It depends on how you define genuinely great. As far as I can tell there are some genuinely great female vocalists who've had bands tailored to their talents and have gone on to great success (think any major Soul, R&B diva).

Same as there are a few genuinely great bands with female members (Stereolab, Sonic Youth, MBV etc.) but in those cases the women were just 'one of the guys', while that sounds sexist on one hand, it can also be seen as 'true' equality on the other - there's no special treatment, it's just another band member.

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Neapolitan

That is what I love about this site you always learn something new, I knew Janis started with Big Brother and the Holding Company and ended with the Full Tilt Boogie Band but I didn't know Janis sang for Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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Electrophonic Tonic

A guy who sounds like a girl...


A girl who sounds like a guy


I guess my point would be with these two videos, it doesn't matter to me. If their voice works in some way with the music I think gender is trivial.


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Farfisa

That's what I always liked about Stereolab. The fact that people view them as a band without the women being singled out for being women. It feels genuine, you know? I've always thought Mary and Laetitia were quite pretty, but I don't think I've ever greatly emphasized it to the point where their appearance was more important than the contributions they were giving.

My Bloody Valentine was more of a one man show though, with Kevin greatly overpowering Belinda's guitar parts in a live setting, it feels like Belinda is often under the influence of Kevin who's telling her exactly what to do. There have been reports that Belinda is actually quite the guitarist now, and her skill outdoes Kevin, but that's just all hearsay.

Alfred

I love female vocalists in hardcore bands.

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Franco Pepe Kalle

I don't judge women on sex. I judge them based on talent. I am someone who loves female voice. The only person I hate and want to dissappear is Lady Gaga who has no talent. Now people want to copy this fool. Lady Gaga acts very bitchy often and has no real talent.

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