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Their music service has yet to play a single woman’s voice
Twitter ^ | Feb 17 2018 | Betsy Hodges

Posted on 02/18/2018 8:51:17 AM PST by Mandingo Conservative

We have been in this restaurant/bar for over an hour. They’re playing classic rock, mostly ‘70s. Their music service has yet to play a single woman’s voice - not even a duet. Not even *backup*. #JustNoticing


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: betsyhodges; democrat; feminism; sexism; virtuesignaling
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To: SamAdams76; the OlLine Rebel
In this current Vanity project, there were several 70s hits with female voices. So, statistically, something should have come up voiced by a female.

This means one of four things:

1. It was a statistical fluke. Move on.
2. To combat this apparent misogyny, Betsy should open her own streaming service.
3. The service actually DID play a tune with female voice and Betsy missed it.
4. Betsy's friends at the restaurant should be incensed that she's more focused on the music than their physical company.

41 posted on 02/18/2018 9:54:09 AM PST by DoodleBob
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To: Mandingo Conservative

The great Connie Francis (Who’s Sorry Now, Where the Boys Are, Lipstick on Your Collar) figured out early in her career that rock and roll favors male voices, and that if she wanted to have hits she would have to be “cute”. Even the most famous of the female rockers of that era (e.g. Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt) mostly have an unfeminine quality to their actual voices. The ones that were genuine successes (Carole King, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Melissa Manchester) are perceived as being closer to the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary). Some of the other successful feamle acts of the late-70s early 80s were Disco (Laura Brannigan, Donna Summer). Even the New Wave groups of the ‘80s mostly fell into the Cute genre (Go-Gos, Waitresses, Bananarama, Bangles). The Eurythmics MIGHT be an exception, and they are post 70s.


42 posted on 02/18/2018 9:55:05 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Mandingo Conservative

If you play “Liar Liar” by the Castaways, or “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies, you might be surprised that Betty And Veronica (and the unknown “female” in the Castaways) are in fact voiced by a falsetto singing male.


43 posted on 02/18/2018 9:56:35 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: JimRed

Obviously, the restaurant was anti-Irish. /s


44 posted on 02/18/2018 9:58:03 AM PST by DoodleBob
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To: Mandingo Conservative

Quit bitching. Was it good music or not? You need a specific sex to like the music or not? I have always thought what was good music to me was good music, period; and there certainly performers of both sexes I like. But as far as who performs, I could care less as long as it is music I enjoy.

Does a female really NEED to see another female doing something to know she too could do it? Why?

Woman crying about not seeing other woman in certain roles, never were nor ever will be “pioneers” as far as “more women” doing something. The women that have excel, that do excel, are not looking for some other woman to show them the way. They just get out there and do what they can and don’t look at the world as just prejudiced against their sex. If they did and when they do, they do not excel.


45 posted on 02/18/2018 9:58:36 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Dr. Sivana

Speaking of Melissa Manchester, she was the singer on National Lampoon’s “Deterioriata” (You are a fluke of the Universe)


46 posted on 02/18/2018 9:59:17 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: mylife

Then there’s Annie Haslam and Renaissance....

Carpet of the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSQFewjDD0


47 posted on 02/18/2018 10:03:51 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Wuli
Years ago I was doing water aerobics, and I would make up CD's for the group to exercise to. There was one mild complaint from one of the ladies.

I had TOO MANY women singers!

48 posted on 02/18/2018 10:03:58 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Mandingo Conservative

Maybe they are Orthodox Jewish.


49 posted on 02/18/2018 10:05:46 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: DoodleBob
So, statistically, something should have come up voiced by a female.

Just as stations that play "50s music" just play the youngsters' Rock, Elvis, Doo-Wop and Blues, and omit top selling non-Rock acts like Percy Faith Orchestra, Pat Boone, Dean Martin and Rosemary Clooney, "70's Rock stations" omit '70s hits that weren't straight up rock. Heck, "You Light Up My Life" is pretty much a Waltz with an orchestral arrangement! The Carpenters are a PURE Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary play, as are the Streisand, Peaches & Herb and Roberta Flack tunes. "Donna Summers and Gloruia Gaynor's "I Will Survive" are straight Disco. "Tie a Yellow Ribbon","Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" are straight "pop" plays and don't fit the oeuvre of a station that plays Springsteen and Led Zeppelin.
50 posted on 02/18/2018 10:07:19 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SamAdams76
Carly Simon

She's so vain, she thinks we think her stupid song is about us.

51 posted on 02/18/2018 10:08:20 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: bigbob

Someone missing her “mileage”, due her!


52 posted on 02/18/2018 10:08:35 AM PST by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"The Eurythmics MIGHT be an exception, and they are post 70s."

I liked "Sweet Dreams," but I thought the video was poorly conceived. Anyway, to my knowledge, Annie Lennox is still working and highly successful. She sang "Into the West" at the end of one of the Lord of the Rings movies.

53 posted on 02/18/2018 10:08:59 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!!


54 posted on 02/18/2018 10:09:41 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Mandingo Conservative

Guess they didn’t play Zep’s “Battle of Evermore.”


55 posted on 02/18/2018 10:11:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: wastedyears

Johnny Mathis, Little Richard and Barry Manilow, come to mind.


56 posted on 02/18/2018 10:12:25 AM PST by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: Mandingo Conservative

I do not hear any good music from the local stations while driving around.
They play rock, pop, country. All bland and bad. It is if Muzac had taken over.
My old car does not have a usb connection for my cell phone so I can play the tunes I want.

I am upset.
I want money for a new car. Gimme.


57 posted on 02/18/2018 10:12:43 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: ThunderSleeps
"Seriously, you're at a distillery that makes a signature level bourbon, and you're drinking some sugary mixed drink like the other ladies at the table?"

I like a tall scotch and soda, or VO on the rocks. But I would never be embarrassed to drink what the ladies were drinking.

58 posted on 02/18/2018 10:17:09 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: mylife

“Happy Now”

I am. Curved Air was one of the great bands in the early 70’s. Francis Monkman and the great voice of Sonja Kristina!

Phantasmagoria - one of the great albums of that era.


59 posted on 02/18/2018 10:18:52 AM PST by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Enterprise
I liked "Sweet Dreams," but I thought the video was poorly conceived. Anyway, to my knowledge, Annie Lennox is still working and highly successful. She sang "Into the West" at the end of one of the Lord of the Rings movies.

Yes, and Debbie Harry/Blondie could be a second exception, still post '70s. "I thought the video was poorly conceived", I'm STILL trying to figure out what kind of terminal/computer her partner was typing on. The video was visually engaging, so more than good enough for early MTV. She was certainly less jarring with the wig on.
60 posted on 02/18/2018 10:19:09 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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