Posts by Danielle
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(I actually read the Blog on the Tracks Facebook page quite a lot, FWIW. It's not somewhere I feel comfortable commenting, though. For obvious reasons.)
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most of the people chipping in here would happily string him up
Oh FFS. If we could spare him the full martyr treatment, that would be ace. I am not interested in "stringing him up"; I'm noting that in the pieces quoted here he's not edgy, or satirical, or speaking truth to power, or whatever version of apologism you subscribe to. He's just being inaccurate, shallow, nasty and sexist. That isn't a necessary condition for music writing and I'll be goddamned if I'm ever going to accept that it is, no matter how many of you keep throwing words like "wind-up" at me.
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You'll forgive me if I consider the same old potshots at my gender less a case of "edgy" and more a case of "same shit, different day".
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If you'd like an opinion about music unswayed by baubles and trinkets, you could ask me: I'm a housewife with a giant music collection. As a bonus, I will do my very best not to be a sexist asshat just for the sake of feeling smug about how "provocative" I am for writing such superb "windups".
Honestly, I cannot express to you how fucking played I think this approach to music writing is. It's TIRESOME, and so are all the apologists for it.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to James Butler,
Well, true. But the music nerds are the ones I know the most intimately (ooh vicar) so I can talk about the cultural specifics in greater detail. I don't know anything much about other kinds of nerds. Except film nerds, maybe? And I think the gender imbalance there is less pronounced. Which is interesting.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
Good critics should not be hung up about “authenticity”, because all art is play, in a way. And “inauthentic” artists are more fun to write about.
Yes. Perfect.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Megan Wegan,
And, go on, try to assign ANY of that to my gender. I dare you.
Sweetman would probably love and hate my music collection in about equal measure - the sheer scale of it kind of guarantees me a reasonable batting average - but ascribing my love of whichever artist it is to my gender is massively patronising (and believe me, I have been patronised by fellow music nerds MANY MANY TIMES).
(Jackson, I had forgotten that "Fly Too High" song by Janis Ian, and it's great. I always break into "At Seventeen" when I hear her name so I might change that up. :) )
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Dean Papa,
I also don’t view Simon’s piece on musical taste of men V women quite as terrible as some are trying to make out. If you read the entire article, where he mentions both his mum and dear wife, then I think it is obviously intended to be read in a lighthearted manner.
1. "It was just a joke, lighten up" is one of my least favourite rhetorical gambits. If you are so inclined, you can Google why feminists hate that shit (and you should too).
2. "Some of his best friends have ovaries so he's not being a prejudiced asshat" is another one of my least favourite rhetorical gambits. Particularly when he actually says that women "listen with their hearts rather than their heads" in that column. OH REALLY? Thanks for the essentialist fuckwittery. Women never get to hear about how they're so *emotional* in their reactions to things, do they? (As if music fandom for blokes was all about counting time signatures and writing down numbers of guitar solos because they're so LOGICAL.) I mean, honestly. That column is infuriating.I tell you what though, music nerdery IS often a sausagefest. That's perfectly true. I bemoan the fact regularly. But I think we might need to analyse why that's so (hint: there is gendered culture at work here) a bit more deeply than faffing on about how The Ladies Always Like Crap, Amirite?
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ah. I hadn't seen that one before - I don't read him that often. So he's one of *those* dudes too. He's really ticking all my boxes for "things I hate in music-nerd culture".
Incidentally, you know who else was "hummable" and "singalong"? (Hint: not Hitler.)
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"Wake up, sheeple!"