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Great music by women

268 replies

IAmAmy · 14/11/2016 22:42

This may not be the right place or forum for this thread but just in case: I feel music is far too dominated by men. What great songs are there by women? I know most of my favourite songs are by women, I'd love to hear more.

OP posts:
Thefitfatty · 15/11/2016 10:00

Elle King
Grace Potter
Gin Wigmore
Missy Higgins
Brandi Carlile
Ani Difranco
Sia

Xenophile · 15/11/2016 10:00

Agreed.

Not sure what the problem is with their credentials. Not asking you to explain Lass, merely wondering aloud.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 15/11/2016 09:55

2 posters are questioning its credentials. It is female led- whether it is a feminist band I neither know nor care.

I do however think anyone who can describe a female musician as a "total babe" is a "total prat"

Xenophile · 15/11/2016 09:51

Are people suggesting that Wolf Alice isn't a feminist band, or that it's not female led?

I can ask Ellie what she thinks...

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 15/11/2016 09:42

What a total babe. We should have heart-eye smiley

Said User147 whilst making accusations about Amy.

growapear · 15/11/2016 09:08

Joni Mitchell :)

If you like classical music - there are lots of great female pianists - Martha Argerich perhaps the most famous one still alive, she's incredible.

boldlygoingsomewhere · 15/11/2016 07:13

Emily Portman often has songs with a feminist perspective based on folk tales and myths - try 'Hide' or 'Hatchlings'.

YonicProbe · 15/11/2016 06:18

TBF, the OP is about great music by women, not specifically feminist music.

User147, did you mean to accuse Amy of trolling? As that's against guidelines.

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:56

Claire Lynch

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:51

Live Through This is actually a stunning piece of work by a real female-led band.

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:48

Bluegrass:

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:47

KissAssAngel that video is FUCKING GREAT!! I love it! I'd never heard of her so thank you! What a total babe. We should have heart-eye smiley on MN.

KickAssAngel · 15/11/2016 02:41

Glad someone else is questioning Wolf Alice as a fem. band.

I love

DD is younger than OP and really into this as well.

I found out that if you start a brand new Pandora account and only choose female artists you ONLY get female artists. Then I started a second station and added some male artists, and now the fuckers are all over all my different 'stations'. DD and I dislike any male artists who appear on our 'wominz' station.

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:34

There's SO MUCH bluegrass/country with female vocals that's just indescribably amazing,

Alison Krauss! Dolly! Shania! Mandy Barnett! Laurie Lewis! The Cox Family!
Etc etc etc!

So many many many actual women producing incredible beautiful music

scaryclown · 15/11/2016 02:27

oh man bluegrass is amazibg. the odd harmonies pull your heart out from your chest and play with it in front of you...i think jolene is an amazing female song. .clicjed as it may be... hear it slow by a bluegrass female singer..like jypsi and its so deliciously painful. men rarely get even close ti that exquisite horror

scaryclown · 15/11/2016 02:22

L7 are frighteningly current and insightful.. even though the released like 25 years ago. .. Wargasns is like a perfect 'now' barrative

Hole with 'don't make me over, i'm all i wanna be..a walking study in demonology' is soooo sneering about "oh if I m not magazine i'm evil' its A1 for now.. which is scary that it still feels correct and fresh..20 years later

mylaptopismylapdog · 15/11/2016 02:13

Don't think anyone has mentioned Joni Mitchell yet.

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:08

wargasm wargasm 1,2,3,
tie a yellow ribbon round the amputee Shock

Fucking amazing band.

Hole are too but I don't think appropriate for this thread.

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:06

My favourite genre of music is bluegrass with female vocalists, mainly because they just get that men act like absolute trashcans most of the time.

And also because they are honest Smile

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 02:03

And the video for Moaning Lisa Smile is very thought-provoking too!

So sad at the beginning how the bitchy nasty bio girls reject their shy "ugly" peer Sad

BUT THEN!!!! The transwomen embrace her because she is a different kind of woman, just like them!

And then in the dance contest the first two acts [made up entirely of females] get awful scores and the judges laugh at them for being so shit... But then the transwomen come on and guess what?????? They are AMAZING!!!!! They are better at womaning than the actual women and they win the contest!!! YAYYYYYY!!!

4/10 trolling mate. Not terrible but I've seen better. Also that band is a (very) low rent Lush.

scaryclown · 15/11/2016 01:56

obv.. 'pentagon ' and 'turn' .:)

scaryclown · 15/11/2016 01:54

There are FUCKING MILLIONS!!!

my fave at the moment is L7..wargasm

'crocodile tears and dropping bombs
the oentagon knows how to tun us on..'

user1472515172 · 15/11/2016 01:49

There are loads of amazing female/female fronted bands and artists out there now. Wolf Alice my particular favourite.

The video for Blush is interesting isn't it?

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IAmAmy · 15/11/2016 00:01

Haha, how could I have had any doubts Wink

OP posts:
EnthusiasmDisturbed · 15/11/2016 00:01

Cat Power

she has written some very powerful songs about love, hurt and her struggles with life they are painfully honest. the one above is about her time in rehab and she has a great voice