More POP at Reading/Leeds

[thetime]

Sexist! A woman can be just as good as a male lead singer, unfortunately Paramore being the biggest female front band at the mo isn't doing anything to help unprove that myth.

[mrtourette]

Well they're all better singers than me bust I don't see what that proves.

EDIT: Meant but instead of bust, must have been subconciously thinking of something else while typing about female singers.

Edited November 15, 2012 by mrtourette

[jump]

Biggest isnt best is it?

Theres some great female singers out there which are as good as men.

Karen o, bjork, pj harvey, beth ditto and courtney love for starters.

Edited November 15, 2012 by jump

[mrtourette]

Even if you did there would still be no charisma.

[thetime]

Even if you did there would still be no charisma.

[thetime]

I completely agree, there's a shit ton of female fronted bands I listen to and even at this moment I'm listening to Metric but Paramore annoy the fuck out me as the vast majority of male Paramore fans I've met like them because they have a girl singer and everytime I've seen them live they've been complete shit mostly due to her not being able to sing on a big stage and has no charisma (unless you count boobs as charisma).

[AcademicPistol]

Bjork

[thetime]

What band is Bjork in?

Edited November 15, 2012 by thetime

[mrtourette]

Controversial. She certainly plays with a band.

[jump]

What band is Bjork in?

Edited November 15, 2012 by jump

[thetime]

She use to be in The Sugarcubes

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

yeh but i only like bands who have frontmen in the NME cool list, i'm too hip to be pop

[Andy0808 v3.0]

You're obviously not very hip, 'cause hip people love pop music

[mrtourette]

What about Danny Dyer's Chocolate Humanuclus?

[AcademicPistol]

Does she not play with a band?

[AcademicPistol]

What about Danny Dyer's Chocolate Humanuclus?

[Andy0808 v3.0]

What about Danny Dyer's Chocolate Humanuclus?

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

i'm more into underground techno.... hairblair bunch and momma's cumquat are my favourites atm

[thetime]

You are the expert, are they just session musicians?

[mrtourette]

I think for the purpose of this (preposterous) argument (in a long line of preposterous arguments) I'd say that they're either a session musician or a full band member, their quality shouldn't really play a part in defining whether they/she are a 'band' or whether she is a solo artist who plays live with a group of people filling the part of her band. As she chooses to market and produce her music as a solo artist I'd say that she plays with a band rather than is in a band, even though those she chooses to play live/record with may be very talented and be very close to her.

[jump]

What about Marilyn Manson? Where both the frontman and band are called Marilyn Manson.

[AcademicPistol]

Her band are a bit more talented than session musicians, they do change through out the years as they go onto solo careers or bjorks direction changes.

The musicians she does have are not really your straight drummers/bass/guitarists, she uses people like matmos to make interesting sounds.

Bjork a genius.

[thetime]

Ah cheers, I know very little about her but that sounds interesting.

Edited November 15, 2012 by thetime

[AcademicPistol]

What about Marilyn Manson? Where both the frontman and band are called Marilyn Manson.

[AcademicPistol]

The wife says I know to much lol, bit of an obsession of mine.

Getting my third bjork tattoo over christmas