Yes, isn't that great about music, sometimes people have really different opinions? :) (I haven't really been this happy about a new album since The Like, actually.)
Underneath a lot of them? Hmm. I don't think the creepy of this album is necessarily sexist at all, that's not what I got from it (apart from one of the verses of Ready To Go, which, yeah, I love that song but those lyrics happened and that sucks). However, I'd agree that Sarah Smiles fits in with the time-honored bandom/rock tradition of writing slightly or very problematic songs about your current or former girlfriends or about women in general ("Change" is another pretty good example, don't you think? And Pete Wentz is responsible for a fair few.), even if it has a few important differences. I have a bandom songs-about-women post brewing, and I'll talk about that there.
But honestly, on the grand scale of misogyny from Eminem to Ani DiFranco, this album doesn't get a very high rating. Fever is far worse.
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Date: 2011-03-20 02:25 pm (UTC)Underneath a lot of them? Hmm. I don't think the creepy of this album is necessarily sexist at all, that's not what I got from it (apart from one of the verses of Ready To Go, which, yeah, I love that song but those lyrics happened and that sucks). However, I'd agree that Sarah Smiles fits in with the time-honored bandom/rock tradition of writing slightly or very problematic songs about your current or former girlfriends or about women in general ("Change" is another pretty good example, don't you think? And Pete Wentz is responsible for a fair few.), even if it has a few important differences. I have a bandom songs-about-women post brewing, and I'll talk about that there.
But honestly, on the grand scale of misogyny from Eminem to Ani DiFranco, this album doesn't get a very high rating. Fever is far worse.