Poll of the Day > Does it seem like guys never listen to female artists?

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At my job we can hookup to a nice bluetooth speaker and listen to everyone music but unless on the rare occasion its a dance/electronica song then we never listen to serious female vocalists.

I have a pretty even mix, but not because I am doing the sjw thing of making things equal artificially but because I legitimately love a good mix.

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i listen to metal, and to be honest there isnt a whole lot of female talent on the scene (i mean actual talent. sex appeal is not a talent)

that being said, nervosa is actually one of my alltime favorite bands and i listen to them often.

but i do see your point. i wouldnt say never but certainly not very often

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Thats weird, theres tons of great female musicians/singers

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i do listen to female artists, but i'll admit, not nearly as much as listen to male artists, ok?

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The way it is phrased is tough. In my experience, guys are actually more open-minded about female musicians than the other way around.

When I was a DJ, one station I worked for had special promotions and events for female musicians/bands. It was my male boss's idea.

When I was listening to rap, I got to hear a variety of rap artists, including many female artists from my friends. They didn't care who it was as long as it was good.

Country has has some great lady stars throughout its history. And many guys aren't ashamed to say they're Dolly or Reba fans.

Females are usually the ones demanding the air play or refusing to listen to guys. Because guys are...sexist

I listen to them...
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I think a lot of it is lack of female representation in many genres,in hip hop at least at one time the lack of female representation was mostly because people wouldnt listen to them anyways but recently artists like cardi b, megan, and noname have had great success so I think things are changing

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Noop_Noop posted...

i listen to metal, and to be honest there isnt a whole lot of female talent on the scene

I mean I dont listen to a whole lot of metal but most of the symphonic metal I listen to is women.

Nightwish, Withing Temptation, Lacuna Coil.

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CTLM posted...

Females are usually the ones demanding the air play or refusing to listen to guys.

Ive never witnessed this phenomenon

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TheSlinja posted...

I think a lot of it is lack of female representation in many genres,in hip hop at least at one time the lack of female representation was mostly because people wouldnt listen to them anyways but recently artists like cardi b, megan, and noname have had great success so I think things are changing

......huh?

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I am a female and there are very few female singers I like.

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I kind miss Toni Braxton.. what ever happend to her, she seemed to disappear off my radar in '96 or so

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deoxxys posted...

I mean I dont listen to a whole lot of metal but most of the symphonic metal I listen to is women.

Nightwish, Withing Temptation, Lacuna Coil.

mostly death metal for me. i cant abide that clean singing garbage in my metal

and again, actual talent. sex appeal is not a talent.

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Love Tsunami Bomb

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Maybe the different culture is a factor, but as far as the Japanese music I listen to, I'd say at least 70 percent of the artists are female. And that's multiple genres; rock/alt rock, pop, R&B, etc.

I actually had to make a point to try more male artists.

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I've never done a scientific study of my listening habits, I'd be willing to bet that I listen to more female singers than male ones in general.

I definitely tend to sing female performers' songs a lot more in karaoke, though. All my perfect scores in Karaoke Revolution were for like Michelle Branch and Britney Spears. And the last CD I was listening to was Sara Bareilles.

It probably depends on genre, though. Some genres have more or vastly less female performers than others. Your ratio is going to be a lot different if you mostly listen to Bubblegum Pop than it is going to be if you mainly listen to Death Metal.
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Im the complete opposite lol I prefer listening to female artists. Kesha and Lady Gaga are my top two.

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Looking at my collection, it does seem to skew definitely male, but it's not deliberate, about 70% of all musicians are male, so if you have albums from 100 artists, odds are only 30 will be by women.

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Heart? Benatar?

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i think it really depends on the genre, for stuff like pop and more indie-oriented stuff i tend to skew female. like slinja said there's a lot of big female names in rap right now too

but like, metal doesn't have a whole lot of women in the first place

(i'm a woman)
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deoxxys posted...

Does it seem like guys never listen to female artists?

lolwut?

deoxxys posted...

At my job we can hookup to a nice bluetooth speaker and listen to everyone music but unless on the rare occasion its a dance/electronica song then we never listen to serious female vocalists.

I have a pretty even mix, but not because I am doing the sjw thing of making things equal artificially but because I legitimately love a good mix.

So basically you're just writing off the countless female vocalists they do listen to as not being serious? >_>

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Patti Smith, Cher, and The Pretenders are some of my faves

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I listen to Kittie. But other than that nope. So I guess so. Arch Enemy and Lacuna Coil also have female singer,s but I dont really listen to them that much.

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i've met some dudes that think like that. It's nothing that i understand, but you don't think most guys feel this way do you?

Zeus posted...

lolwut?

So basically you're just writing off the countless female vocalists they do listen to as not being serious? >_>

not really countless
its like a fews here and there and they are like highly edited nightcore songs

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i like taylor swift

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Noop_Noop posted...

mostly death metal for me. i cant abide that clean singing garbage in my metal

and again, actual talent. sex appeal is not a talent.

dio and maiden not kvlt enough for you?

I don't listen to too many female artists but thats because the genres I like most don't have as much female representation as other genres. However, its not something I really think about.

One of my problems with female artists is that the music industry seems to skew female music representation towards genres/styles I don't care much for. This isn't always the case though, of course.

Also, I like it when singers have... unusual? voices, and a lot of female singers are kinda... samey. I like Alanis Morissette, and Stevie Nicks, and Eartha Kitt, etc...
Oh, and this chick, whose name eludes me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpltQ5S4xxc#t=16s

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It's split pretty 50/50
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Gaawa_chan posted...

One of my problems with female artists is that the music industry seems to skew female music representation towards genres/styles I don't care much for. This isn't always the case though, of course.

Also, I like it when singers have... unusual? voices, and a lot of female singers are kinda... samey. I like Alanis Morissette, and Stevie Nicks, and Eartha Kitt, etc...
Oh, and this chick, whose name eludes me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpltQ5S4xxc#t=16s

Man definitely disagree about there not being a wide-range of female voices.

Check out Joanna Newsom if you haven't.
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Noop_Noop posted...

mostly death metal for me. i cant abide that clean singing garbage in my metal

and again, actual talent. sex appeal is not a talent.

Funny thing is I can't stand growly vocals for the most part. Aside from Amon Amarth I listen to pretty much only clean vocals.

I mean of course I expect potd themselves to be pretty fair but are their peers really the same?

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Depends on the music.

Yeah. Why wouldn't they? What a dumb question this is.

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Mead posted...

Ive never witnessed this phenomenon

Me neither

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i listen to female vocals like 90%. more appealing, sensual,

except rap--prefer male by far.
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I listen to mostly non local or if I do its female.

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It's about even for me.

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All I listen to is female vocal covers

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I don't find this to be the case so no. Mind you I listen to female artists. Avril Lavigne, Amy Lee and Utada Hikaru all come to mind.

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Many female artists have music that just isn't what I'm interested in.

I'll just point a finger to Paramore, I first learned of the band via their song "Misery Business" the rest of their music was not like Misery Business. They have some good songs, I won't argue that, but aside from that one I'm not really going to put them on any playlist.

This might be because I don't listen to western music.

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blu posted...

dio and maiden not kvlt enough for you?

i love dio and maiden is fine, but they hardly fit into any sort of metal genre i listen to these days

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https://youtu.be/66YExJjrC8E

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Do you mean female solo artists, or bands with female lead vocalists?

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Firewerx posted...

Do you mean female solo artists, or bands with female lead vocalists?

anything where the lead singer is female

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No Doubt. MIA. That's all I can think of.

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While I listened to more metal music with male singers, there are some female metal singers I enjoyed. Nightwish (I only listened to "Bless the Child"), Elena Siegman (who sang Call of Duty zombie songs with songs composed by Kevin Sherwood), BABYMETAL (haven't heard a lot but I commonly listen to "Road of Resistance"), High and Mighty Color (I only listened to "Ichirin no Hana" from Bleach), and some others.

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Lokarin posted...

I kind miss Toni Braxton.. what ever happend to her, she seemed to disappear off my radar in '96 or so

Got into a legal dispute with her label and the lawsuit dragged on for so long it pretty much killed the career momentum she had after Secrets (the album with "You're Makin' Me High" and "Un-Break my Heart").

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