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I have a deep appreciation for woman in music. I think in a world dominated by male supremacy, it is good to see Jonis Joplin, Courtney Love, Joan Jett, Mia Zapata, Wendy O. Williams, Poly Styrene (rock in peace), Exene Cervenka and others like that come along and kick the sexism right in the guts and spit in its face.
Do I care about Lindsay Lohan, Katie Perry and all that disposible stuff though, naw. Not my thing...
I have a deep appreciation for woman in music. I think in a world dominated by male supremacy, it is good to see Jonis Joplin, Courtney Love, Joan Jett, Mia Zapata, Wendy O. Williams, Poly Styrene (rock in peace), Exene Cervenka and others like that come along and kick the sexism right in the guts and spit in its face.
But that alone would not have said enough... but close to it.
But in reality, I always liked to see females in rock especially, showing they could rock just as hard as the men. I think it was "American Hardcore" documentary where it was commented on it, that women in the punk scene were around, but always worked behind the scene, they were the ones making the posters, doing the promotion and working the doors and merch stands... so to see them out of the shadows and into the light is amazing.
I was discussing with someone the other day why I love Courtney Love for example... while first things first, she is batsh*t crazy.... I will not deny that. But at the same time she was also intelligent, outspoken and not afraid to start things with people. So people wanna judge her and put her down... which I think is more due to the fact that in the eyes of many men, this is not "acceptable" behavior for a female, to this day sexism still exists and women are just expected to sit down and shut up and be servants... So when you get somebody like Courtney who goes against societies view of how a female should be, they all of a sudden do everything to reduce her to nothing and put her down for being strong and intelligent.
So what I am saying is, I like females who come out and go against the grain of what is expected of them in society and rock hard. It is refreshing to see, and makes me fall in love with them and their spirit and being.
Wendy O. Williams, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love and others embody this perfectly to me and make me happy to see that strong, intelligent, no bullsh*t females can come out and do what they want and do it better than many men. That to me is female liberation in its truest form.
Just for the sake of quantification I looked through my iTunes collection to work out how many female vocalists I had. Out of 428 bands/artists I found these featuring female vocals and the first on the list I can't stand. I like Angus but Julia sucks IMO.
Angus and Julia Stone
Bessie Smith
Beth Orton Björk
Carole King
Cat Power
Concrete Blonde
Dame Joan Sutherland
Dark Arts Dead Can Dance
Deee-Lite
Diana Krall
Dido
Etta James
Eva Cassidy
George
Heart
Incognito Kate Bush
Lamb Laurie Anderson
Lucinda Williams
Nico
Norah Jones PJ Harvey
Portishead
Rickie Lee Jones
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Sneaker Pimps
The Audreys The Brand New Heavies
This Mortal Coil
Vashti Bunyan
Voo-Doo Church
in bold are some of my faves, though I have to say This Mortal Coil's not a permanent band, it's a 4AD supergroup and some songs have male vocalists
I have to say This Mortal Coil's not a permanent band, it's a 4AD supergroup and some songs have male vocalists
Yeah maybe I should have said bands that feature female vocals. ie. Dead Can Dance who also contributed to This Mortal Coil share vocals between Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.
I agree with some of the names put up here and there are obviously plenty of others. There is a reason some male songwriters like female singers singing their songs, Burt Bacharach liked Dionne Warwick singing his songs for example. It's like some film directors seem to have had female actresses as their 'muse' as well. Some things just require a different kind of expression. Imagine some songs made famous by female singers, it wouldn't have the same kind of heightened expression if a male singer had sung it.
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