quoted 6 lines heard of something called 'commercial sellout'? Bjork's appearance>heard of something called 'commercial sellout'? Bjork's appearance
>should be good for moving a few more thousand units to Bjork
>trainspotters. Plus, music with vocals usually sells better, at least,
>that's all my wife or virtually any female I know will listen to.
>
>Che
as though there weren't enough utter shit on this list... fer cryin' out
loud! haven't we been through the fucking gender issue a bazillion times
already?
unfortunately, i think my post is at cross-purposes to itself, because
while i really want to pre-empt a long, drawn out, go-nowhere quasidebate
about gender roles & IDM... i also am having a really, really, really hard
time resisting slagging the utter fucking inanity of the above statement.
i'm not denying that there are, sociologically speaking, gender differences
at issue in music habits. i work at a record store, and so i see first
hand that men are a vast majority of music-buyers in general (simon
reynolds chalks it up to anal-retentiveness, which is somehow supposed to
be a male tendency, at least in a patriarchal society). HOWEVER, the way
you frame your statement does *not* sound like an objective sociological
observation--it comes across much more like an utterly derisive
condemnation. and it's really not too cool. (by the way, interesting how
"commercial sellout" becomes a gendered term, by its association to the
"feminine" nature of music with vocals.)
relentlessly and then some,
phil