I saw more discussion about Amanda Palmer's fail than I ever did about MCR, even though there's 1000% more squee about anything MRC does (so it's not that people are just more aware of what AP's up to). It's not that I don't think people should call out women, but I'm sick of reading about the various things that women have done wrong when there's not a similar level of discussion about men.
Panic's got the word "whore" in their song. It's not like anyone's boycotting Fever. If you squint and remove anything problematic, Z's vaguely saying that women should be able to make music without selling sex. Vaguely...
(Plus -- and I probably shouldn't even open up this can of worms, but it's early in the morning so whatever -- I don't think that the expressions of female sexuality in the music industry are universally empowered. I think that some women have control over their image and use their sexuality to do what THEY want -- Gaga being an excellent example. And then I think of Michelle Branch's rant about how she's sick of having to suck record exec dick to get her song played on the radio. There's a lot that's wrong with the music industry. While obviously women should be allowed to wear whatever they want and express their sexuality in whatever way they're comfortable with, I think that there can be a discussion on the oversexualization of music.)
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Date: 2010-10-01 02:00 pm (UTC)Panic's got the word "whore" in their song. It's not like anyone's boycotting Fever. If you squint and remove anything problematic, Z's vaguely saying that women should be able to make music without selling sex. Vaguely...
(Plus -- and I probably shouldn't even open up this can of worms, but it's early in the morning so whatever -- I don't think that the expressions of female sexuality in the music industry are universally empowered. I think that some women have control over their image and use their sexuality to do what THEY want -- Gaga being an excellent example. And then I think of Michelle Branch's rant about how she's sick of having to suck record exec dick to get her song played on the radio. There's a lot that's wrong with the music industry. While obviously women should be allowed to wear whatever they want and express their sexuality in whatever way they're comfortable with, I think that there can be a discussion on the oversexualization of music.)