Scarlett O'Hara

Due to my disturbing discovering of many people not liking female singers/bands, can people please tell me if you follow the same sort of opinion?

How can you dislike and entire gender for their vocals?

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ThePhanastasio

I like a lot of female vocals, then again, I am female.

I don't really like a lot of female rock vocals, though - they don't often embody what I feel is more in the "spirit" of rock and roll, and sound too controlled and classic or something. Not entirely sure what it is. There are exceptions to this rule of course, but most female ROCK vocalists really aren't my cup of tea.

Folk singers, though, I prefer women.

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s_k

Make a poll .

Dislike. I like my music to be solid, sound solid.
Female music usually sounds a bit... Whiny, and then I mean the music itself.
The extreme example of this is Coco Rosie. But Björk (altough I actually can't help but have a lot of respect for what she soes) is a good example too. I sometimes want to tell to them 'stop thinking and make music that has some feel'.
That's one part of the story.
On the other hand, I just like a voice to sound solid. Female vocals usually don't.
And when they do, they usually sound too rough/brutal.

I have always been very picky about my music. I like a lot of genres but I am very quickly distracted/annoyed by something in music. It's really a miracle that I have such a huge record collection

I have three records where a female singer does the lad vocals
No doubt - Tragic Kingdom. Out of youth nostalgia
Janis Joplin - Pearl. Because... Well she's as much as a woman singer as Tom Waits is
Earth & Fire - Self Titled. I don't listen to it all that often, but musically it's nice and the best song of the album, Seasons, is sung by a man, mainly .

By the way, I don't very often like high pitched male vocals like Bon Iver or Bonny 'prince' Billy. I don't dislike those two, but usually I get annoyed by vocals like that. I also dislike overdramatic (theatrical) vocals like Marillion's, Peter Gabriel's or Arcade Fire's.
Somehow I like Muse. Well, their first two albums. Strange thing.

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ThePhanastasio

^ Yes, because women are incapable of making music that has legitimate emotion without being whiny.

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Howard the Duck

srry I only like Kim Gordon and Cheryl Cole and the girls from Strawberry Switchblade and The Primitives (UK)

Burning Down

s_k, you need to start listening to opera. The depth, range, and emotion in women's voices in opera is just amazing, it will blow your mind.

Zer0

I do have a tendancy to listen to a lot of female-fronted bands. Female vocals work remarkably well in certain styles of music, such as shoegaze or dream-pop where they can add this soft, ethereal quality which makes the music really appeal to me. A lot of the time it's just refreshing to listen to female-fronted bands rather than a constant stream of male-fronted bands. In other cases I do admit that I develop some kind of emotional connection with female vocalists.

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

My favorite band is probably 1/4 women, my second favorite band occasionally has female singers, and my third favorite band is 3/4 women.

I ADORE Martha Argerich, Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstead, Diamanda Galas, Jarboe, and Suzenette Lewis.

I adore female sung bands: Thinking Plague, Unexpect, Koenji Hyakkei(well, mixed vocals), Magma(also mixed), Art Bears, etc.

Sounds like ****load of good No Wave is also female led(A genre I've only seen the tip of the iceberg of). I adore opera, as well.

Women are very VERY capable of writing, and being involved with good music. The problem is that we have a very clearly chauvinist music industry that requires chicks to either:

A) Dance around in a thong.

B) Using femininity as a gimmick in order to sell CDs.

It's one of the main reasons I loathe people like Lady Gaga. There are worlds and worlds of extremely talented serious female musicians out there. In fact, open up your local newspaper in ANY city, and you'll probably find tons of advertisements for violinists, pianists, and serious female musicians of all variates.

I mean just cause you had to at one time endure this excruciating pain:



...shutters.

It doesn't mean you have to hate women. Blame the industry which is so based of cult of personality aesthetic it doesn't let an artist truly be him, or herself. Especially, if she is a chick who just wants to be treated like a serious musician, not specifically under the banner of "Hey, I got a vag. I got a vag.. see! No penis! I'm female, and that's all I think and sing about! Watch me shake my tits!"

Cause, underneath the surface there's some amazingly soulful serious female musicians out there, really. You just have to look.



/\ See, brilliance, personality, style, sophisticated advance melody. Notice, no thongs, no "Yeah! Grll Pwer!" Nonsense. No "Damn, I just wish I had a non-thinking drone of a hunk to be my husband" idiocy. Intelligent music, created by a woman, performed by women, and proof infinitely that it's unfair to stereotype or pigeonhole.

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starrynight

I don't see any to dislike based on a big generalisation across many different types of music.

s_k

I don't like any opera voice, male or female.
I think it's abuse of the ability to sing.
Overtechnical.

Well it sure sounds like they do.
I'm sure it's just me, but I just cannot stand it, most of the time.

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