I was thinking about this the other day, and it seems to me that if a male in the music biz is "too good looking" he automatically gets discounted as 1-hit boyband rubbish, but if a female is "not too good looking" she better be something phenomenal to hear.
I blame the devouring and homogenizing of radio by huge corporations like Clear Channel. Honestly, radio
should be the format that ignores everything but how an artist sounds, and it's the rare station that follows that idea.
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''I think any women who are truthful and know what they're doing know that we'd be liars if we said we never borrowed from our sexuality", Geyer says.
"But sexuality in our world is just part of the package. I think the decision-makers are basically male, so there's a leaning towards salaciousness (in marketing); it's about what makes the blokes in the boardroom happy."
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QQ more, IMO. You can't have it both ways.
You can't be all shoutin' "Hey, hey, I'm a girl, dammit!" and then get mad when guys are like, "Oh, yeah, you ARE" accompanied with a salacious grin.
Hybrid Mode
