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At this point in history there's been a billion songs from female singers about relationships. Nearly every song revolves around that topic.

Where are the songs like:

Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla

Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Even great songs like Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac though about a witch is still about a witch & unrequited love.

One reason why I like Trip Hop is because there's some great female voices but the lyrics aren't always themed towards relationships. I suspect though that many of those songs are written by the guys in the band.

Everything I have stated above about female singers applies to female comedians too. They primarily joke about relationship stuff. There are no female Mitch Hedbergs joking about silly shit.

I just want to hear Shakira or Jewel or Norah Jones sing a song about mudwrestling Satan in a dive bar in 1970s Louisiana. Ladies, where is your imagination?

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I think you're a victim of availability bias. You're thinking of all the women who sing songs about relationships and forgetting all the men who sing songs about relationships. You're remembering all the men who sing about not-relationships and forgetting all the women who do the same.

Tik Tok, Royals, I Love Rock and Roll, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Tom's Diner, All I Wanna Do, Anti-Hero, 9 to 5, the list can go on indefinitely.

And that goes doubly for comedians.

Mitch Hedberg did jokes about relationships. "I don't have a girlfriend, but I do know a woman who would be mad at me for saying that."

There are dozens of currently active women who do comedy that isn't just about relationships. Most probably include jokes about relationships, but comedy is about shared experiences, and relationships are fertile ground for material.

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 18 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Nightwish

Amaranthe

Visions of Atlantis

Babymetal

Liliac

And those are just off the top of my head.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Oooh yeah that’s the good stuff.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

I have heard of them, but never listened to them… Yet.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

"Today I killed, he was just a boy 8 before him, I knew them all"

I really love nightwish.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Babymetal's very good. You'd think an idol metal group would never work, they feel like both opposites in their genres, but they work it out very well.

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

FEMALES. You always know it's going to be a nonsensical sexist take when that word pops up over and over.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cindy Lou Who has a death metal band that's relatively famous.

The music is out there, it's just never gonna pop level huge.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I always forget about her band. They are really good. ETA: the band is called The Pretty Reckless

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Try this:

Eivør - Trøllabundin

Also, “females” makes you sound like a Ferengi. It’s okay to say women, even when you’re using it as a sexist overgeneralization.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Talk to me when male singers write a modern fairy tale about a monkey and bear who escape from a traveling circus only for the monkey to coerce the bear into prostitution to support the duo until one night the bear sneaks off to bathe and the monkey follows and sees the bear turn into an angel and then into dust after she realizes she's been seen naked.

[–] QueenB@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a link for that?

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear

Whole album Ys is a 10/10

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

That song is so fucking good. Just unreasonably good.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

Did you take into account that most pop songs are about that topics? It's not only female singers

[–] guywithadeathwish@lemmy.wtf 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Both Spotify and apple music have massive playlists of female singers in the rock/metal genre, you need to stop looking at pop music if you want to find decent stuff

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's truly an unpopular opinion.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

Because it's not really an opinion.

It's a weird rant on a weird faulty assumption.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

It’s a factually incorrect one, so…

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

“Why yes, I only listen to the Top 100 Billboard songs. How can you tell?” - OP, probably

In all seriousness OP, broaden your horizons in music. You clearly don’t listen to enough music to know that men also sing about breakups, love, and relationships.

[–] QueenB@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

I wrote in my original post that I listen to Trip Hop. Did you not see that?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard anything by 4 Non Blondes, Veruca Salt, or Hole?

[–] sab@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If this is a thread to recommend kickass woman songwriters, I'll add a couple of names to the list:

  • Gillian Welch. One of the best in country music. Time (The Revelator) is my favourite album, and has a really cool song touching upon themes such as the sinking of the Titanic, the troubles of getting red clay off your dress, and how hard it is to make money as an artist these days.
  • PJ Harvey. Listen to hear early stuff for punk, or her newer stuff for all kinds of experimentation. I dig Rid of Me for the former and Let England Shake for the latter.
  • Patti Smith. Because somehow I don't see Patti Smith mentioned in this thread yet.
[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Just a note to say that PJ Harvey can send you down a dark, dark path. I can’t listen to her unless I’m able to clock out for a couple of days to recover. She’s a really powerful singer.

Also, I want to call out both Sinead (and I’m not even going to get into the character arc she was subjected to, but highly recommend her later work as well as her early stuff) and Kate Bush, if you’re into the more experimental stuff. Going further I that direction would be of course Björk and the incomparable Diamanda Galas. On the other end of the spectrum you’ve got bands like the Cranberries, with Zombies being easily if not superior to anything done by U2 on the Troubles.

Off the top of my head:

Massively well known: Annie Lennox, Suzanne Vega, some members of Chumbawamba

More indie: Grumpster, Lynette Knackstedt (RIP), The Dollyrots, Cher Strauberry

Also, I think you're making a lot of assumptions here, especially the one where you suspect that if it's not about a relationship, then a man must have written it

[–] tournesol@peculiar.florist 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@QueenB how the hell would you come to this conclusion ?? This is a troll right ?

[–] Varpie@peculiar.florist 4 points 7 months ago

@tournesol @QueenB Male artists keep writing about love, and this is disgusting. Ed Sheeran's Shape of You, OneRepublic's Counting Stars, Eminem's Mockingbird (fatherly love), Snoop Dogg's Beautiful, Linkin Park's Numb... All this shit makes me want to puke, where are REAL men?? At least the ladies know how to do it, they should learn from Britney, at least she is Toxic!

[–] QueenB@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I listen to music. That's how.

I just don't see many examples like Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song that are not only sung by a female but also were written by one.

[–] monsterlynn@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

@QueenB OMFG like almost every Zeppelin song is about fucking or a woman that's done them wrong, driven them to drink etc.

And please don't use "female" to describe women unless you're writing a police report.

@tournesol

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

Pop songs aren't written by the singer and more of the writers are men.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when people see the word female and instantly call someone an incel. But this reads like an incel manifesto

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