GlueForSniffing t1_itn8h6a wrote on October 24, 2022 at 9:54 PM

I mean " Gay AF " isn't an insult like they want it to be.

Like, cool you limit yourself from liking things you may consider feminine? Good on you for being a follower and seeking out approval from other men? Like no, fuck off.

If women like an artist more often than men it doesn't mean it's bad and that idea is ridiculous.

I do think people can have BLAND music taste? Like if you only listen to mainstream-mainstream music it's very formulated. I like some of it too but like . . . at some point it feels less like a person's taste and more like " SAFE JAMS for your dentist office / kid's party " in pop music.

and I feel like a lot of rap is starting to sound the same especially in male rappers. Very few are mixing it up and doing something where they don't sound like 20 other guys who make it to mediocre success because they're a dime a dozen.

SlurpMyDaycare OP t1_itna5ep wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:06 PM

Shit, I’ll even fuck with some Ariana Grande, If it sounds good then why not listen to it. I’m not a masculine male and I mean I get some people wanna be THE MAN but don’t just say something is garbage because it’s not manly, women can make some good ass music too even if it’s more focused on their gender. It doesn’t have to be talking about fucking bitches and getting money, sure I like some of that music but because some of it just sounds nice to my ears. I like a lot of forms of pop but I’ll Listen to many different genres as well and I don’t care if the song is more on the feminine side, if it’s a good ass song I’m listening to it.

GlueForSniffing t1_itqmyb7 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 4:20 PM

I think women are still not taken seriously and are severely underestimated in music.

They've done a lot of legwork in shaping what music is.

This modern folk-pop and Indie style everyone is trying to do right now? Wouldn't exist without Kate Bush's major success but, the US sort of cockblocking her success taking over there makes them ignorant to realize the waves in music she has made.

Kate was really the first person to SUCCESSFULLY in the MAINSTREAM break from music formulas as largely as she did and include things like spoken word and high classical headvoices in POP mainstream?!? She was using literary references and pioneering usage of the farmlight CMI back when people were not using technology to further music and sound very widely. She is the reason for the Indie uprise and also arguably started the heavy synth use and exploration of the 80's.

and she isn't the only one.

Tina Turner shifted the expectations of how women were supposed to sound MASSIVELY. She did follow in the footsteps of men but her doing that in the 60's brought range into music expectations of what women could do. She broke the frilly mold. Because back then all successful female acts were in knee length or longer dresses singing about " OH my boy, he loves me I love him so " not ripping skirts off to show their legs and singing about dancing and where they came from.

and then Cher? Cher is the only majorly successful ALTO to ever happen and again PIONEERED USE of the vocoder. Without her doing that? Will.iam and T-Pain wouldn't have careers. She is also the only PERSON to have a major hit in 6 different decades. Not even The Beatles did that.

Women shape music just as much if not arguably more than men do.