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[twasadark]

I was listening to the rock and alternative rock tabs on last.fm today and after about 2 hours I realized that I had not heard even one female artist yet. What the HELL?? Surely there are SOME women rockers, right????? It kinda pisses me off in general how few women make it in the arts anyhow. Writers, musicians, actors - one day we'll have some sort of equality with men, right? I mean, I like me my mens but women have so much to offer.  Are we damned to obscurity in this male-dominated world?  *shakes fist*  

Who's your favorite female musician? I'm curious. This is kinda a crappy vid and the song isn't rock nor alternative rock, but this is my favorite song by a female artist lately. I found it off of someone's fanmix. I wish I could remember whose ...

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[lunaste.livejournal.com]

I listen to a lot of singer songwriters and electropop, and there are a LOT more females in that corner ;)
LOL TVTropes even has a name for it (I read that entry yesterday): the Suzi Quatro Principle (meaning if there are females in rock bands they are always the singer or the bass player).

Let's see, some of my favorite females are
Martina from Dragonette (electropop and SO FIERCE oh my god)
Regina Spektor (sort of alternative singer-songwritery and so good)
Feist (my iTunes classifies it as either rock or alternative but I find her more singer-songwritery as well)
Kate Nash (pop with a twist)
Lily Allen (fiiiiiierce)
Yelle (electropop)
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE HOLY CRAP WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THEM UNTIL NOW they are so amazingly awesome, listening to 'Girl' always makes me feel that it's unbelievably awesome to be female

And atm I'm kind of embarrassingly into La Roux although I hated her at first.

So no rock, but enough amazing females in music anyway!

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Thanks so much, love. I don't really know what electropop is, but as long as it isn't that gawd-awful disco-like junk that Germans listen to, I'll probably like it, lol. Can't wait to listen to these!! The only one I'm familiar with is Regina Spektor and I'm not really sure what she does ... Apparently it takes too much brainpower for me to remember the names of artists unless I see them 989 times though so I might have heard some of the others.

[lunaste.livejournal.com]

Well, some of it (like La Roux and Little Boots) I like is a bit disco junk like, but I kind of like that :D
I should have provided some links but I couldn't be bothered :')

Regina Spektor is very good, although I think I'm one of the few who doesn't unconditionally love her earlier work above all else (she can be a bit pretentious or 'HEY LOOK AT HOW DIFFERENT AND QUIRKY I'M BEING') but songs like Samson or Oedipus or Us are gorgeous. And Chemo Limo makes me cry every time I listen to it.

The others aren't REALLY well-known, so don't feel bad about not knowing them ;)

*is in a music mood right now and goes looking up clips on youtube*