At this point in history there’s been a billion songs from female singers about relationships. Nearly every song revolves around that topic.
Where are the songs like:
Blue Öyster Cult - Don’t Fear The Reaper
The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Even great songs like Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac though about a witch is still about a witch & unrequited love.
One reason why I like Trip Hop is because there’s some great female voices but the lyrics aren’t always themed towards relationships. I suspect though that many of those songs are written by the guys in the band.
Everything I have stated above about female singers applies to female comedians too. They primarily joke about relationship stuff. There are no female Mitch Hedbergs joking about silly shit.
I just want to hear Shakira or Jewel or Norah Jones sing a song about mudwrestling Satan in a dive bar in 1970s Louisiana. Ladies, where is your imagination?
I think you’re a victim of availability bias. You’re thinking of all the women who sing songs about relationships and forgetting all the men who sing songs about relationships. You’re remembering all the men who sing about not-relationships and forgetting all the women who do the same.
Tik Tok, Royals, I Love Rock and Roll, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Tom’s Diner, All I Wanna Do, Anti-Hero, 9 to 5, the list can go on indefinitely.
And that goes doubly for comedians.
Mitch Hedberg did jokes about relationships. “I don’t have a girlfriend, but I do know a woman who would be mad at me for saying that.”
There are dozens of currently active women who do comedy that isn’t just about relationships. Most probably include jokes about relationships, but comedy is about shared experiences, and relationships are fertile ground for material.
I get your point but one Mitch Hedberg joke out of all of his act is not the same as what most female comedians do. You know what I meant.
Nightwish
Amaranthe
Visions of Atlantis
Babymetal
Liliac
And those are just off the top of my head.
Jinjer as well.
Oooh yeah that’s the good stuff.
I have heard of them, but never listened to them… Yet.
“Today I killed, he was just a boy 8 before him, I knew them all”
I really love nightwish.
Babymetal’s very good. You’d think an idol metal group would never work, they feel like both opposites in their genres, but they work it out very well.
Are the females in those bands writing the songs or are the guys writing the songs?
What a strange and sexist thing to ask lol
Who’s writing the love songs?
It’s probably a mix but then you have Jewel or Taylor Swift who write their own lyrics.
Your says nothing about gatekeeping the lyricists, only the lyrics. Does it matter who writes?
My point was about creativity and coming up with ideas for songs. Women seemed geared towards relationships and never want to come up with off the wall wacky nonsense.
This says more about your interpretation of the world than the actual world. Congratulations, you’re incorrect. Now you have the opportunity to fix that.
Yeah my dude QueenB you’re working with a pretty narrow view of women that to me is past bordering on misogyny.
Is this article misogynistic?
Why Women Have Stronger Immune Systems than Men
Pointing out differences between men and women is not sexist or misogynistic.
Try this:
Also, “females” makes you sound like a Ferengi. It’s okay to say women, even when you’re using it as a sexist overgeneralization.
Cindy Lou Who has a death metal band that’s relatively famous.
The music is out there, it’s just never gonna pop level huge.
I always forget about her band. They are really good. ETA: the band is called The Pretty Reckless
Did you take into account that most pop songs are about that topics? It’s not only female singers
Talk to me when male singers write a modern fairy tale about a monkey and bear who escape from a traveling circus only for the monkey to coerce the bear into prostitution to support the duo until one night the bear sneaks off to bathe and the monkey follows and sees the bear turn into an angel and then into dust after she realizes she’s been seen naked.
Do you have a link for that?
Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear
Whole album Ys is a 10/10
Both Spotify and apple music have massive playlists of female singers in the rock/metal genre, you need to stop looking at pop music if you want to find decent stuff
Are the females in those bands writing the songs or are the guys writing the songs?
Female singers only want to sing about love, relationships or breakups
Someone’s moving the goalpost
Not moving the goalpost. That’s what I was originally thinking during creation of the post but perhaps I could have phrased my title better. The whole point is about creativity and using your imagination to come up with song ideas.
Do you think that most pop singers write their songs themselves?
I gave you a suggestion to help find new artists/bands, the research on songwriting is up to you, but I can tell you now there’s a lot of bands where the front woman is writing
Off the top of my head:
Massively well known: Annie Lennox, Suzanne Vega, some members of Chumbawamba
More indie: Grumpster, Lynette Knackstedt (RIP), The Dollyrots, Cher Strauberry
Also, I think you’re making a lot of assumptions here, especially the one where you suspect that if it’s not about a relationship, then a man must have written it
Have you heard anything by 4 Non Blondes, Veruca Salt, or Hole?
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That’s truly an unpopular opinion.
It’s a factually incorrect one, so…
@QueenB how the hell would you come to this conclusion ?? This is a troll right ?
@tournesol @QueenB Male artists keep writing about love, and this is disgusting. Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, OneRepublic’s Counting Stars, Eminem’s Mockingbird (fatherly love), Snoop Dogg’s Beautiful, Linkin Park’s Numb… All this shit makes me want to puke, where are REAL men?? At least the ladies know how to do it, they should learn from Britney, at least she is Toxic!
I listen to music. That’s how.
I just don’t see many examples like Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song that are not only sung by a female but also were written by one.
