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Isnt it annoying how a lot of good songs are written in the guy's POV?
are girls just bad at making music or something? or not as good as guys are.
cause its like I cant really relate to it, like if a song talks about like a girl the singer likes
but at the same time its really good so I listen to it anyways.
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Women are easier to sell.
For the most part, guys have to be decent in order to sell. They've got to have something worth marketing before they ever get out there, so the talent is somewhat required.
Women, on the other hand, can be turned into stars. Look at Ashlee Simpson. She's been booed off stage enough that you never hear from her, because she can't even lipsync well, to say nothing of actually singing. And yet, she's sold records before she got on stage and proved that she isn't actually responsible for any of the music. They did the same with Britney Spears, a girl who can't sing for shit but who's got the face, body, and enough acting talent to pretend to be a star.
And yet, she's idolized. This is because her girl demographic isn't buying the music so much as the image. They are "Britney" girls, so on and so forth. And guys will watch the videos because of the nudity in them.
Guys can't get away with that for the most part. Every once in a while they jump on that ticket, the Jonas Brothers being a current example and Hanson being one from the past. Neither was a decent musical group, but they're huge because they have the right look to appeal to stupid teenagers who haven't matured enough to have anything like taste.
And just like Hanson, the Jonas Brothers will disappear and be forgotten inside the next 5 years. Its the new cycle of music, you create a sensation and market it.
Its not just girls though. My worst offender is Soldja Boy or however the hell you spell it. He became famous overnight simply through marketing, with a song that quite literally can be produced using a basic music editor in 20 minutes. If you search youtube, you can find a video of someone making the song minus the lyrics, someone spent ten grand to make a bullshit song, filmed a video about it, made millions, and now no one gives a shit.
This is what the RIAA has done, they corporatized music so much that alot of good music is getting pushed to the wayside because bad music is so much cheaper to sell. Why pay someone with talent who expects to keep the rights to their song when you can pick some random idiot kid out of a crowd, hand him a "song" and a deal to produce, and shell in the dough the way they do with most artists these days.
Its the fault of your friends who like this terrible crap, they fuel the machine that keeps putting it out.
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It depends on your taste in music, but also on what sells and to whom.
Male musicians have traditionally out-sold female musicians and other artists. This has changed a bit recently, with a few really successfully female pop artists in the last 15 years, but if follow the dollar figures, all signed male musicians and bands are still making more than all signed females. This divide is true for visual arts, photography, playwrights, comedians, even until quite recently, novelists... basically most art forms.
So the question is: Why do the male artistic perspectives or the 'male voice' lend itself to more commercially successful art?
There are lots of theories that answer that question, but the ones I favor are some lingering gender-bias from the last century (when men produced art, and whatever women did was generally concerned a ‘craft’ or inherently less valuable as art), and also a bit of hard-wired preferences. Women are better than men at connecting emotionally with a verity of perspectives. Women are, as a horrible over-generalization, better at feeling empathy with people different than themselves. We are also more inherently concerned with people’s feelings and perspectives then men are. That means the ‘male voice’ appeals to us and we have the skills to relate to that voice, in a way that men cannot as easily relate to a female voice. (By voice, I don’t just mean the way a person sounds, but everything about the way they communicate: their words and their lyrics and what’s important to them.)
That means a male artist has inherently larger audience (both men and women) then a female artist (who might have limited appeal to a male audience).
Anyways, it’s just a theory, but like I said, it also really depends on what kind of music you like!
I’d say, if you are concerned about the under-representation of women in any art form, one of the best things you can do is put in a serious effort into finding female artists you like and buying their stuff! There are thousands of artists out there, and it's always a sweet find when you discover one that you can really relate too.
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