From Philip Sent Fri, Oct 31st 1997, 21:56
From Philip Sent Fri, Oct 31st 1997, 21:56
>heard of something called 'commercial sellout'? Bjork's appearance >should be good for moving a few more thousand units to Bjork >trainspotters. Plus, music with vocals usually sells better, at least, >that's all my wife or virtually any female I know will listen to. > >Che as though there weren't enough utter shit on this list... fer cryin' out loud! haven't we been through the fucking gender issue a bazillion times already? unfortunately, i think my post is at cross-purposes to itself, because while i really want to pre-empt a long, drawn out, go-nowhere quasidebate about gender roles & IDM... i also am having a really, really, really hard time resisting slagging the utter fucking inanity of the above statement. i'm not denying that there are, sociologically speaking, gender differences at issue in music habits. i work at a record store, and so i see first hand that men are a vast majority of music-buyers in general (simon reynolds chalks it up to anal-retentiveness, which is somehow supposed to be a male tendency, at least in a patriarchal society). HOWEVER, the way you frame your statement does *not* sound like an objective sociological observation--it comes across much more like an utterly derisive condemnation. and it's really not too cool. (by the way, interesting how "commercial sellout" becomes a gendered term, by its association to the "feminine" nature of music with vocals.) relentlessly and then some, phil