Patriarchy blamed for dearth of female musicians at summer festivals: "As a society we are less encouraging of girls who aspire to headline Glastonbury."

Clauderoughly · 2013-06-27T14:43:05+00:00

So women need to woman up, develop some musical skills, take huge risks and try and make it in the music industry.

lol

And it's funny she sites Yoko Ono in the article. The woman go got famous by fucking the most famous man in music, and then not getting shot as she stood next to him.

To quote Dennis Leary..

"John Lennon takes 6 bullets to the chest, Yoko Standing next to him.... NOT ONE FUCKING BULLET! EXPLAIN THAT ME GOD ! I WANT IT EXPLAINED ME RIGHT NOW! "

poorlytaxidermiedfox · 2013-06-27T15:16:58+00:00

Some random Canadian musician no one has heard of blasted the Danish Roskilde Festival for this as well. She was all like

200 artists. 12 of them women. C'MON ROSKILDE

and then she started going on and on about how Roskilde Festival should have women quotas or perhaps even a woman-musician only-stage.

The music director of Roskilde Festival, a woman, promptly told her to go fuck herself. It was quite delightful!

pocketknifeMT · 2013-06-27T13:54:44+00:00

Makes sense. If women aren't doing it... It must be patriarchy. Thats the only explanation. /s

avantvernacular · 2013-06-27T14:12:01+00:00

Or you could just make better music.

UtilitarianByNature · 2013-06-27T15:00:37+00:00

Another tool that puts on her "sexism is every where" glasses before she leaves the house.

It's art for fuck sakes. A ton of people try, and very few succeed. Because you have to be good. Most music lovers, men and WOMEN don't give a shit what's dangling between an musicians legs. As long as it get's their foot tapping and it's their type of music. There are tons of successful women in the music industry. Not my style of music I like typically but they are there. Stop demanding just because of what is between you legs "that it's not fair". It's because your not good enough, deal with it.

Does this dolt know what happens to bands at big enough festivals that suck ? They get booed, heckled off stage. Is this what she wants so she can scream " LOOK MISOGYNY" .... no they just suck at music.

Modern feminism" The radical notion of treating adult women like children"

Sorry to hurt your feelings, you suck get off the stage and bring on SOAD.

giegerwasright · 2013-06-27T15:42:04+00:00

Ok. Except. Who wants to bet that Anya Pearson is at best a somewhat technically proficient but boring, bland, and derivitive musician with zero stage presence?

I'll put $50 on it.

Ever notice that "female musician" always seems to mean "frontman"? Why aren't there women out there seeking to shred like Slash (her name is Orianthi, and she's quite booked)? Or play drums like Joey Jordison? Or work sequencers and samplers like Imogen Heap? Or how about play bass like John Myung?

Why? Because that means not being in the limelight.

There are a lot of reasons that there is a dearth of female musicians in the limelight. Some of those reasons are executive and pr fuckery. More or those reasons is that there is a dearth of women willing to become technically proficient background players and nearly none willing to be innovative enough to be recognizable for any reason other than their tits and ass.

Find me one woman with Diamanda Galas' or Jarboe's intensity and ability. Find me one woman who draws sketches in their notebook depicting herself as a member of Skinny Puppy.

Funcuz · 2013-06-27T14:52:07+00:00

Maybe there just aren't enough women making good music that people want to pay to hear ?

Crazy , I know but it's a remote possibility.

Not that I personally don't want to hear acoustic guitar carrying lyrics about how depressed I am when I can't dance under a full moon (because it's like nobody's watching !) but maybe a festival naturally precludes the possibility that people paying for it want to hear that shit.

2013-06-27T15:38:07+00:00

PATRIARCHY TO BLAME BECAUSE NO ONE LIKES THE WNBA

pstanish · 2013-06-27T13:57:32+00:00

Absolutely ludicrous article. Patriarchy means women are sex objects, sex sells, therefore use women to sell your product. If it is the case that women are not being used to sell the product then the person is either a shitty capitalist or women are unable to sell and therefore not patriarchy.

Anyone blaming on patriarchy is dedicated to the idea that a huge music festival is run by horrible capitalists..

McFeely_Smackup · 2013-06-27T17:59:44+00:00

leave it to a feminist to completely miss the point of a goddamn music festival. It's not to provide opportunities for female musicians. It's not to provide cultural enlightenment to the community. It's to SELL TICKETS...and to do that you need bands that people will pay to see.

She thinks unpopular bands (by very definition of them not being included) should be top down promoted rather than showcasing the popular bands that people have already been shown to want to see (by definition of them being popular).

Fuck her and the broomstick she rode in on. Hell, this is really OUR fault for even giving two seconds of our time to people like her. Paying attention just validates her credibility beyond what it deserves.

Mr_Rivers · 2013-06-27T21:47:52+00:00

Holy shit, she uses fucking YOKO ONO as an example of a talented female musician

I'm sorry, but if you cant think of anyone better than her to make your case, then you should probably just go away, you know nothing about music.

That being said, for every decent female band I enjoy, I can think of three with male frontmen.

PeterArching · 2013-06-27T19:09:40+00:00

Madonna could have been big if it hadn't have been for DAT PATRIARCHY.

Instead nobody has heard of her or her music and she is homeless somewhere in Michigan.

Also never heard of by anyone ever: Carly Simon, Katy Perry, Shirley Bassey, Brittany Spears, Diana Ross, Kim Deal, Stevie Nicks, D'arcy Wretzky...

the_leander · 2013-06-27T19:46:30+00:00

There is a fairly comfortable niche in Europe for female fronted metal with some amazingly talented artists in there, but its not the sort of thing that Glastonbury caters to. It also has to be said that of the really top flight stuff produced within that niche, it makes up a tiny fraction of the output within the genre. At rock festivals you might get 5-1 ratios in a good year, but those few that do show up account for a sizeable majority of the talent pool.

2013-06-27T20:56:43+00:00

Fuckin' 'ell.

Title	Patriarchy blamed for dearth of female musicians at summer festivals: "As a society we are less encouraging of girls who aspire to headline Glastonbury."
Author	jarmana
Upvotes	36
Comments	58
Date	June 27, 2013 1:31 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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