singemonkey wrote:
Cue the usual comments about the irrelevance of her shreddage given her hotness ?
Ja. It's a sad comment on the times that we live in that female musicians still tend to not get regarded for their musicianship. Especially if they're young and pretty.
Have you heard Joan Armatrading play guitar? She's a really fine player, but too many people (of both sexes) don't seem to see that and say things like "pretty good for a girl."
There was an interesting column in The Times (the UK paper) recently, in which the columnist critiqued an Alicia Keys show that he'd been too and remarked how it was, for him, off-putting that she wasn't allowed to just be a musician on a stage performing songs (she's a strong vocalist and keyboard player) but had to wear the tight outfits, do the dance numbers, shake her booty, writhe around in a cage etc.
