So: it’s hardly a radical shift. English is one of the more gender neutral languages out there. My table doesn’t have a gender, my car, my hair. Really only people and some animals have genders. And, funny thing, we already have a third gender: “they/them”. It’s been used as a singular pronoun for a loooong time,…
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Absolutely. Kurt’s voice - like Jimi’s before him - was perfectly adequate for his material, and he was in every way the right person to sing it. But a vocal virtuoso, neither was. Adele is.
“It is a universal thing and would happen with or without extensive gun control, though the numbers may go down somewhat.”
Most rock stars really weren’t great vocally. A great voice isn’t really required for rock, pop, country and folk. The only thing I expect for artists in these genres is that they stay on pitch for most of a song. Vocals are important for soul and R&B.
like there’s lots of middling level vocal talent out there (and i love pop music)
There is actually a gender-neutral word that refers to a sibling’s offspring, nibling. It’s like grandchild instead of grandson or granddaughter.
When I was her age, Rebecca Schaefer, was killed by a stalker. I’d watched every episode of My Sister Sam and sometimes she’d show up in YM or seventeen in a really cool hat or something, so I followed her closer than I realized. It was a heartbreaking intro to the violence of the real world.
I was gonna go for ‘33 Again’ but ‘Dream a Little Dream’ is a deeper cut... nicely done.
They should do a reboot with an all-female cast instead.
This. The objectification of women is sexist only because “sex object” has often been the only role women were allowed to play in film and TV and because for much of history a woman’s value in society has been inextricably linked with how attractive she was in the eyes of men. That’s not a dynamic that men, even men…
Who gets to decide what’s considered crappy or deserving of success, though? That’s the argument JustUsBabe seems to be making. The article seems to say it’s okay when Amy Winehouse did it because the author liked her music. She doesn’t like Meghan Trainor, though, so it’s wrong and she doesn’t deserve success. It’s…
Oh, the irony of this article appearing on Jezebel, where AAVE’s being used for “sassiness” is never not on the menu.
I thought it was a Southern thing. It probably happens a lot more than we think in a variety of places.
I am of the belief that it’s not so much that black audiences don’t want white artists exploring a black sound: the issue is that white artists can be bad while employing black style and still be successful.
I think we can excuse a little hyperbolic exasperation in the face of such deeply clueless privileged opinions. Dealing with men day in and day out who think their experiences are remotely equivalent to women’s experiences is exhausting, and it wears down a person’s energy for tact and diplomacy. Ideally, I perhaps…
Sure; part of my discomfort, though, was feeling like I was being dismissed for being a white guy. Two things I believe are true about that reaction: 1) it is a very common reaction for white men to feel attacked when it is pointed out that our problems are very often not the result of systemic concerns and in fact we…
I think he’s just being dismissed because he tried to call out his discomfort as some example of a double standard. He’s allowed to feel bummed at being objectified and it’s fine for him to complain about it too. It just kind of annoying that he seems to think he’s the rule instead of the exception.
Colbert is so good. Letterman is cranky geezer.
This headline is badly written.