Jazoni89 said:
That's what I like so much about Warpaint, it's a huge middle finger to all of that overly sexualized female pop music. It's this strong female music that should be more prevalent in the industry, and hell warpaint would make better role models to young females than Rihanna or Lady Gaga will ever be.
Damn straight. They write their own songs, they play their own instruments, and pretty well at that for an indie band, and they're making it big on
their terms. That's what being a musician is all about, whether you're a man or a woman, and kudos to them.
PJ Harvey is another artist leading the march for strong female music. There should be more of this kind of music, and it just depressing how much of a hard time females get when they are doing something other than pop or soul music. PJ Harvey has been making music for twenty years, Twenty Motherfucking Years! and in that time, she has done all sorts of genre's, ranging from her early grunge albums, to her more recent folk music, and she's still not as popular as she should be, but she don't care, she just loves making music, which is what bands like warpaint are striving for. The sex is the music, and not the people in the bands, granted it's a nice bonus to have, but it's not why I liked warpaint in the first place.
-_-
...so, you're a PJ Harvey fan, huh? Well, I suppose there are worse things to admit to.
Like being a Bieber fan
Ok, that was unkind of me. Let's just say that, while I respect her artistic stance and unwillingness to compromise, I cannot stand PJ Harvey's music. Beige waffle of the highest order. Compared to the divine likes of Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday and Sandy Denny, she's really not that special.
I'm ranting. Let me stop. I should simply say that in my opinion, what you see as twenty years still without the deserved recognition, I see as twenty years of passable music that have resulted in two Mercury prizes and a lot of recognition over other, better artists.
...guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, yes?
