As I've mentioned in my essay on Paramore and their music, female-fronted bands have always fascinated me because of how the vocalists are holding their own in a male-dominated industry. There have been several across various genres in the past five decades or so, all trying to break gender stereotypes and standing up for their fellow ladies. Refinery29 did an in-depth look at how all-female band members were discouraged to pick up guitars and drumsticks. The automatic responses to seeing women in a band is that they're unladylike, whores, and other demeaning descriptors to undermine them and their musical talents because of their gender. But, as bassist Catherine Popper said, "We sin...
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