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
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.
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.
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.
Obviously, the restaurant was anti-Irish. /s
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.
Speaking of Melissa Manchester, she was the singer on National Lampoon’s “Deterioriata” (You are a fluke of the Universe)
Then there’s Annie Haslam and Renaissance....
Carpet of the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSQFewjDD0
I had TOO MANY women singers!
Maybe they are Orthodox Jewish.
She's so vain, she thinks we think her stupid song is about us.
Someone missing her “mileage”, due her!
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.
LOL!!
Guess they didn’t play Zep’s “Battle of Evermore.”
Johnny Mathis, Little Richard and Barry Manilow, come to mind.
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.
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.
“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.
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