Isn't it horribly sexist to claim there are certain types of music for men and women? Seriously, this to me comes off as horribly sexist towards women. It really sounds like she's asking music to stay more shallow so women can listen to it easily.
that's the sad irony of today's extremist feminism they put political nonsense in stuff that really isn't there to prove there feeling's are "facts" that should be taken seriously just sad.
+John Relyea The most painful thing is that people are antagonizing terms like feminism because some horrendous extremist use it as a flag to excuse their behaviour. It's really like forcing yourself into a place where you can act out the victim role which they think would give them a ton of priveledges. Of course the easiest thing is just to say you're always a victim because you're a woman or something.
Exactly, I get it that there is more LGBT and women oriented music that is fun and vibrant. The thing is, the instrumentals and production are fun and vibrant, now the lyrics can be whatever: deep, shallow, happy, sad, etc. A lot of “very gay” songs actually are incredibly dark and deep. The cultural problem Amanda is trying to talk about is the diminishing of these types of music because of their main audiences, but she fails so much. Women and LGBT oriented music is not shallow and easy to listen, what kind of defines it is sounding flamboyant and vibrant (drag queeny). The fight is to prove how deep and nuanced this type of music can be, not attack deepness
Alexander Tso also facetious but very well taken. the Beatles did a show in Paris before Sullivan and they were flabbergasted that the audience was almost all male. go figure.
the thing is, your sarcasm unintentionally(?) has a grain of truth and more worrying, there are actually really dumb classical snobs who would unironically agree with your post :/ If you will allow me a music history ramble: the notion that we have to sit and contemplate a work of art on its own terms is actually a very modern one bound up with the emergence of capitalism and, with it, the commodification of art production. think about it: in Mozart's day, the opera hall was actually a very noisy space with lots of chatter and applause... now there's a whole stuffy etiquette about when one applauds and concert halls are meant to be as silent as the grave for Serious Contemplation. A cultural shift happened between then and now, expressive of deeper economic and political shifts. Mozart is a kind of "transition" between the composer as an ARTIST in the modern sense who produces independently for the market, and the composer as basically a really expensive songbird who is a member of the household of his aristocratic patrons. Beethoven is a handy historiographical milestone, roughly coinciding with the French Revolution, in marking the world-historic shift to ~**MODERNITY**~ people seldom look at this critically, so once in a while some edgy wannabe know-it-all dismisses some of Mozart as "light and frilly" (and yes, effete) whereas Beethoven is more "serious" and "profound" (and yes, also "more manly")
I totally agree with you--my teenybop/Mozart analogy was meant to reflect what I've heard other folks say (I'm majoring in music at a university, so I hear people talk about this all the time). I wanted to draw a comparison between the two arguments (and their ridiculousness). I actually think the lady in the original article brought up an interesting point about the cultural association between femininity and certain musical styles--but instead of criticizing the ridiculousness of this association and celebrating the progressive women who embrace and advance the more "serious" genres, she patronizes women by implying they are confined within these "light and frilly" styles.
I love vapid, and "vapid", dance musics! I also enjoy the Beatles, Donna Summer, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Raekwon, Patsy Cline, Dark Dark Dark, Hanson, Sophie, The Dixie Chicks, The Ramones, Biosphere, Patti Smith, Chromatics, and hundreds of other musical performers, old and new alike, that Amanda no doubt has never heard of. And I'm most comfortable, and feel most like my true self, identifying Non-Binary, because gender is so much so an oppressive social construct.
I think she already blew it by even assuming The Beatles made Sgt. Pepper’s to convey a deeper meaning. It just seems like they only wanted to express their ideas without any boundaries or expectations layed upon them. If anyone were to enjoy Sgt. Peppers, it would be completely up to themselves, regardless of their gender or anything else.
that ultraviolence I’ve only started watching the video and haven’t heard exactly what she said yet but I’d say they alienated a lot of their fan base in between, “I want to hold your hand” and “blue jay way” but that’s not exclusive to just females, I’d say the same is true of fellas too.
adw wasd that’s not what I’m saying dumbass, I’m saying that some of the people that liked the early Beatles stuff are not the same that like the more experimental stuff. The first Beatles album is pure pop and attracted a lot of attention from particularly female fans, do you think Beatle mania would have happened the same if on the Ed Sullivan Show they played Blue Jay Way, Octopus’ Garden and Maxwells Silver Hammer? Nah mate
@aya i don't mind feminism, but the way it can and has been used is very disgusting. there are too many charlatans who use the cause to sow discord and fatten their own pockets. i could go on a rant about almost every single group on both sides of the argument, but no one wants to read that, lol. in short, people just need to chill all around.
I believe she is talking about the widest album an act can get. Far more females are listening to Taylor Swift and Adele than Samantha Fish and Beth Hart. Far more guys are listening to Samantha Fish and Beth Hart than they are Taylor Swift and Adele.
I just tried to read the original article and I couldn't make it past the "grunge" part. Grunge was literally the progressive reaction to the systemic misogyny that dominated the music scene at the time. Yeah, grunge knocked Michael Jackson off the charts. You know who else it knocked off the charts? "Cock-rock" hair bands. Kurt Cobain constantly spoke of feminist values, denounced "macho" douchebaggery, and wrote multiple anti-rape songs (happily risking the alienation of the frat bros in his audience). Eddie Vedder literally wrote "Pro-Choice" on his arm during a high-profile concert. How can a writer masquerade as a feminist while assuming women aren't capable of appreciating musical styles that don't cater to their man-assigned stereotypes??
I won’t lie, when I was younger I used to think that “Taylor Swift was for girls” and vice versa. But I feel like that’s because of how society around me treated music. Now I listen to anything and I don’t think most anyone cares what men/women listen to
I can’t say the same there are tons of r&b act aimed at a female audience though that doesn’t exclude males from listening. Boyz II Men comes to mind. But I love the song end of the road by them so whatever.
I can safely assure you, that as soon as I began to love The Beatles (I was six), I instantly transformed into a stuffy, angry old man. That's just how the world works, dude.
I don't really get why women aren't allowed to enjoy prog. Women can be technically gifted musicians capable of appreciating compositional and performative complexity, as well, and it's sexist to think otherwise. Why don't women like prog?
Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds changes its time signature from 3/4 (waltz) to 4/4 (standard rock beat) and would not be a good song to dance to for most people.
She even says EDM is either too obnoxious and bro-ey or too intricate and nerdy, as if women can't enjoy intricate music and need something chill and predictable or their ovaries will dry up and die
Thomas Monahan can I just say I hate the fact that no one I know who has ever listened to a day in the life has ever acknowledged just how overwhelming the thunderous crescendo sounds in a day in the life are. Like I show them and it gets to that part and their faces don’t light up they just have neutral faces...how the fuck....like it’s not like I told them it was gonna happen..they had no idea...how are u not blown away by the one thing that you will probably never ever hear in music other than in this song?
Anthony, I want to point out that you have superior diction. English is not my mother tongue, but I can easily follow and understand your speech. Your videos are great language practice.
Isn't the entire article blatantly sexist saying that girls wouldn't like it because it's too serious. Isn't that really insulting to the intelligence of women. "Oh no, this music isn't geared to women anymore because women can't enjoy media that conveys complex ideas "
TheNuclearNoodle SJWs are quite possibly the most racist, sexist idiots to inhabit the earth. They blocked a proposal to stop straight - ticket voting because, get this, the black people wouldn't be able to understand it therefore it was racist
_Most of the left_ isn't like that, but I pretty much am talking about the vast majority of SJWs, that's kind of a defining characteristic of what a SJW is. Anyway: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rejects-michigan-ban-on-straight-ticket-voting/2016/09/09/7ce6bff6-7533-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html can't find the article I read earlier, but here's one from a quick search on straight ticket voting that's mostly the same, but the wording is a little better so it doesn't fit with my point above as easily. "The black labor organization, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Common Cause sued, saying the law was meant to discourage minority voters who overwhelmingly choose Democrats." And as an aside while we're on the topic: "[...]the elimination of the procedure would slow the voting process and create long lines in precincts where African Americans are most likely to vote." It's funny that people don't seem to think that a shortage of polling areas in minority communities is the problem, the problem is that _they aren't being rushed through fast enough, obviously._
No law can do that, that's as undemocratic as it gets. I just hate straight ticket voting because some of our worst congressmen are impossible to vote out because their voting districts are deep in D or R territory and straight ticket voting just exacerbates the problem.
Are you able to read? They said it's because not being able to vote straight ticket would put blacks at a disadvantage. How the hell else do you interpret that? Didn't say anything about them not having the option to split their ticket, it was the opposite. Also, I don't watch Fox News, but go ahead and pigeonhole me into whatever binary poltical camp you think fits you, since apparently you're not capable of thinking outside of a very small box.
The entire article is blatantly sexist, absolutely. And like catnip to people who want an excuse to trot out their anti-sjw conspiracy theories, clearly... ... are you guys incapable of simply enjoying the dismantling of some deluded article writer without trying to spread your politics all over it? Seriously? Come on. Can you go a minute without saying "sjw"? Or is that too much to ask?
The entire point of this article was taking a current event and trying to add nonexistent sexist undertones to it. You can tell she hasn't even listened to the album, she just saw "Sgt Pepper 50th" in the news and thought to herself "Hmmm, how can I be a victim of this??". Add in some irrelevant Gender Studies bullshit and boom, you have another quality Salon article.
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Dearest Amanda, I didn't drop $50 on an original picture disc of Sgt. Pepper's for nothing. It's a damn good album. Sincerely, a female comfortably saying fuck off
I feel like Revolver would've been bigger than Sgt. Pepper's if John didn't make the "We are bigger than Jesus" comment in 1966. It took most of the attention away from the album. Focusing only on John's comments, which caused riots against The Beatles from hardcore Christians in the south. Revolver to me is actually more ahead of its time than Sgt Pepper's. Bands today still try to sound like the Beatles Revolver era.
I agree fully. Revolver was the most innovative album they ever made and had John not made the stupid statement it could have perhaps been looked at in that way. Instead the attention was on John's word rather than what remarkable album came out that year completely changing pop music and pop culture.
were.... were the Beatles supposed to be a dance group anyway... wtf also, I’m a teenage girl and I listen to punk rock. sorry Amanda, I’m a traitor. music should belong to all of us who like it.
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"We started out as a recruitment group for the local white supremacist organisation, but then we realised that we liked making music together, and it just sort of evolved from there." -Paul McCartney, 1965
A fellow woman should know better than labeling music for men and music for women. Stupid article! Should I just ditch my psychedelic rock, metal, punk and wave for Taylor Swift? Stop listening to Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Joni Mitchell, Fever ray etc.? Since I'm a female.... God dammit.
theoretically09 welp, time to remove, beatles, Alice cooper, ozzy, black sabbath from my playlist, coz i should listen to Taylor Swift, since im a girl and shouldn't be listening to rock, pop, and many more music made by men.
People who think that rock and roll was created by white men, was all about white men, and only appealed to white men, has never heard of *_Sister Rosetta Tharpe._* Her stlyings and abilities inspired just about everyone. She's worth a look, for anyone who cares about rock history, guitar history, and more. Watch her handle her electric guitar, and you'll say, "Ah, so THAT is where Hendrix got his moves!"
I mean, I wouldn't give a shit. It's an inexpert opinion that next to no one paid attention to. I would be counting my money and reminding everyone that I started Wings.
I'm just amazed she still gets paid. By Joan Walsh or whomever the editor of Salon is these days. Does she have an audience outside her base of Twitter followers or is this just another case of pundit-class nepotism?
Bravo! And, as a conservative, I'll add that there are conservatives who are just as bad - for every liberal writer whining about how the Beatles threaten their female identity, there's a writer complaining elsewhere about how the Beatles threaten their anti-feminist/anti-SJW conservative identity, or their anti-Satanist Christian identity, or anti-Semitic/anti-Judeo-Christian atheist/pagan/satanist identity, or their local nationalist or anti-popular culture identity, or whatever. We've raised generations of people of all sorts whose only common form of popular entertainment takes the form of finding reasons to feel offended and threatened about everything and then ranting and whining about it until someone promises to kiss it and make it feel better....
You realize insular liberals saying this has nothing to do with party values. And you can just become a leftist like me instead of a weak kneed liberal
I don't get how she had to make this album about gender. I love this album and have listened to it through and through, and would ya know, I'm a weeman:)
juliawedo Its clear shes not familiar with the Beatles music other than a few radio tunes. Salon just wanted to take this opportunity to bitch about sexism where it doesn't exist. Oh well, some people suck
As a female person, I'm kinda offended by this author. Like, I'm not the biggest Beatles fan just because they're not quite my cup of tea, but that has nothing to do with my gender. Nü metal is my favorite genre of music, which I don't think this author would say is feminine enough for me to enjoy. And I think gay men enjoy pop music more than anybody else honestly (not that that's a bad thing).
Bands make lighter, poppier music when they're young and trying to succeed in the industry and then evolve and mature when they're older and more established. That's not uncommon, and has nothing to do with sexism, unless most girls just aren't that deep.
The great thing about the Beatles is that their musical style kind of grew alongside the development of their original teenage girl audience. A 14-year-old girl who stanned the Beatles in '64 would've been 17 by the time Sgt. Pepper's came out - between those ages most people change quite a lot and I can imagine a lot of those core fans would've seen their personal development during the growing pains of teenagehood reflected in the ever-changing musical style of their favourite band.
The issue I feel with modern music journalism is either it being mind numbingly bland or it being a series of mind numbing attempts to gender, politicise and find problems for every record released. It creates a pressure for musicians (pop especially) to box themselves as being a sole 'political' movement.
Most of my experience with music journalism is with metal music journalism, and so I'll add to the list of complaints about it my complaint that modern music journalism - or at least modern metal music journalism - tends to be more about the journalist than the music. Maybe that's not just metal journalism - perhaps the fact that modern journalists are just talking about themselves, showing off, and patting themselves on the back contributes to the other problems with music journalism in general, specifically that it tends to be bland, mind-numbing, and focused on goofy identity-issues that the journalist can use to show off for the readers with?
As a little girl back in that era, I loved them getting weird. I thought they were my best friends. Also was in Jr. High , in a Chicago suburb when Disco Demolition Night happened . And Steve Dahl was Was OUR DJ . Completely felt that moment . And then cranked up Cheap Trick ! New wave Beatles , basically
Salon is so amazing. They consistently get more obnoxious, biased and hypocritical with every article! How the shit is that even possible i mean you'd think that they would accidentally write something decent once every full moon but NOPE.
As a woman, I'm saying this Amanda berk is daft. I love Sgt. Pepper's. Perhaps not as much as the White Album or Abbey Road, but I love it. I'm so sick of SJW's trying to speak for womankind as if they are the ones who know what all women (or is it womyn?) think, like, feel, et cetera. I am my own person and I happen to be a massive fan of 95% of all Beatles material. Also: books name the Beatles as the greatest and most influential band of our time for one simple reason: They Are Just That.
Amanda is obviously some kind of radfem idiot who thinks female/femininity = pink colours and bubblegum pop. the worst kind of activist on the internet, fuck.
I think it's just a clickbait piece mixed with Amanda going "Feminism is trendy. I'm a woman, so what I think must be feminism". Not some SJW conspiracy. Saying this is feminist when she's trying to dictate what girls can listen to through the whole thing (and just the stupidity of the whole piece) just shows you've never met a feminist lol. Not to say there aren't some idiotic people out there that call themselves feminists though. I'm a radfem and I can tell you it's the opposite, we're completely against gender roles and all that bs. Amanda sounds like she's trying to get on the liberal/third wave feminist trend and failing, hard.
Macca Lives yeah, and the post kinda makes me ashamed for liking the beatles, and having a abbey road poster on my wall. Tbh i actually wish she never wrote that, shes one big lunatic and a stupid soccer mom, smh.
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Rip 12. Beatles for sale 11. With the Beatles 10. Please Please Me 9. Help! 8. Hard Day’s Night 7. Magical Mystery Tour 6. Let It Be 5. Abbey Road 4. Rubber Soul 3. Sgt. Pepper 2. The White Album 1. Revolver In my opinion, they didn’t have a “worst” or a “bad” album. Even their early albums are great pop albums, where almost every song is a classic tune. And Mystery Tour and Let It Be are great as well. If some random band had put out those albums, I firmly believe that people would consider them masterpieces.
Beatles in 1965: "Guys, we've been appealing to all these women who've been buying all our records, we've got groupies chasing us around everywhere we go... Let's just chuck that all away because MEN, am I right?"
The beatles at the beginning made rock and roll and pop to later dance with rubber soul and revolver where it became rock and at that time they lost female fans and the boys began to follow it more
I happen to love the growth and progression of The Beatles as musicians. I find that bands that don't progress are pretty boring. Every time I listen to Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt.Peppers back to back I marvel at the maturity of songwriting. George Harrison's guitar playing from Rubber Soul to Revolver is a revelation. I think this woman doesn't know a thing about music, which is a shame. Loved the commentary! I guess I am a nerdy male because I love great music, too!
I came across this article through a thread on /mu/. I was hoping it'd find its way to you and be worthy of doing a stink piece on. I love these stink pieces. Always insightful and entertaining.
As a woman and a leftist this is one of the most sexist and anti-feminist opinion pieces I’ve ever read. That being said, the condescending treatment of things teenage girls like is real - but she says nothing interesting about that at all.
I really love how this woman states that the only thing women want to hear is a dance beat. Now, I love me me an occasional dance beat, but I also love me some good ol' Sgt. Peppers and Revolver sometimes. Of course, as one woman with some fucking self awareness, I don't deign to think I can speak for every woman on Earth either...
To this Amanda whats-her-name, in 1967 me mum bought Sgt. Pepper's. She was 29 at the time, and didn't buy a lot of rock albums, more like Simon & Garfunkel or the Supremes. But she played this, and loved it, and us little nippers did too.
Isn't it horribly sexist to claim there are certain types of music for men and women?
Seriously, this to me comes off as horribly sexist towards women. It really sounds like she's asking music to stay more shallow so women can listen to it easily.
that's the sad irony of today's extremist feminism they put political nonsense in stuff that really isn't there to prove there feeling's are "facts" that should be taken seriously just sad.
+John Relyea
The most painful thing is that people are antagonizing terms like feminism because some horrendous extremist use it as a flag to excuse their behaviour.
It's really like forcing yourself into a place where you can act out the victim role which they think would give them a ton of priveledges.
Of course the easiest thing is just to say you're always a victim because you're a woman or something.
The best kind of Pop music is the kind both genders can enjoy.
The worst kind is Girly shit like Little Mix.
Exactly, I get it that there is more LGBT and women oriented music that is fun and vibrant. The thing is, the instrumentals and production are fun and vibrant, now the lyrics can be whatever: deep, shallow, happy, sad, etc. A lot of “very gay” songs actually are incredibly dark and deep.
The cultural problem Amanda is trying to talk about is the diminishing of these types of music because of their main audiences, but she fails so much. Women and LGBT oriented music is not shallow and easy to listen, what kind of defines it is sounding flamboyant and vibrant (drag queeny). The fight is to prove how deep and nuanced this type of music can be, not attack deepness
bro so OneDirections or justing bieber arent for women?
I think she just picked "Lucy in The Sky for Diamonds" because it had a female name in the title
Or because she had heard the name before.
Dat tru tho
She must have forgotten about Lovely Rita
LSD?
She should have picked I am The walrus for the feminists.
Has this woman criticized Mozart's lack of dance floor fillers too?
elvisleeboy Mozart's music was clearly produced by the industry for the male nerdy thinkers. No girls allowed!
To be fair, Mozart's music was the Teenybop of the day. It was Beethoven who came along and made it SERIOUS AND MANLY. (sarcasm)
Alexander Tso also facetious but very well taken. the Beatles did a show in Paris before Sullivan and they were flabbergasted that the audience was almost all male. go figure.
the thing is, your sarcasm unintentionally(?) has a grain of truth and more worrying, there are actually really dumb classical snobs who would unironically agree with your post :/
If you will allow me a music history ramble: the notion that we have to sit and contemplate a work of art on its own terms is actually a very modern one bound up with the emergence of capitalism and, with it, the commodification of art production. think about it: in Mozart's day, the opera hall was actually a very noisy space with lots of chatter and applause... now there's a whole stuffy etiquette about when one applauds and concert halls are meant to be as silent as the grave for Serious Contemplation. A cultural shift happened between then and now, expressive of deeper economic and political shifts.
Mozart is a kind of "transition" between the composer as an ARTIST in the modern sense who produces independently for the market, and the composer as basically a really expensive songbird who is a member of the household of his aristocratic patrons. Beethoven is a handy historiographical milestone, roughly coinciding with the French Revolution, in marking the world-historic shift to ~**MODERNITY**~
people seldom look at this critically, so once in a while some edgy wannabe know-it-all dismisses some of Mozart as "light and frilly" (and yes, effete) whereas Beethoven is more "serious" and "profound" (and yes, also "more manly")
I totally agree with you--my teenybop/Mozart analogy was meant to reflect what I've heard other folks say (I'm majoring in music at a university, so I hear people talk about this all the time). I wanted to draw a comparison between the two arguments (and their ridiculousness). I actually think the lady in the original article brought up an interesting point about the cultural association between femininity and certain musical styles--but instead of criticizing the ridiculousness of this association and celebrating the progressive women who embrace and advance the more "serious" genres, she patronizes women by implying they are confined within these "light and frilly" styles.
gotta love the implication that vapid dance music is for women and music with a message is for men.
I love vapid, and "vapid", dance musics! I also enjoy the Beatles, Donna Summer, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Raekwon, Patsy Cline, Dark Dark Dark, Hanson, Sophie, The Dixie Chicks, The Ramones, Biosphere, Patti Smith, Chromatics, and hundreds of other musical performers, old and new alike, that Amanda no doubt has never heard of. And I'm most comfortable, and feel most like my true self, identifying Non-Binary, because gender is so much so an oppressive social construct.
And also, obviously, The Beatles...I still dig around 30 of their pre-Sgt Peppers tracks.
If vapid dance music is for women then I got one funky lookin vagina
So LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk are for NB?
I think she already blew it by even assuming The Beatles made Sgt. Pepper’s to convey a deeper meaning. It just seems like they only wanted to express their ideas without any boundaries or expectations layed upon them. If anyone were to enjoy Sgt. Peppers, it would be completely up to themselves, regardless of their gender or anything else.
So.. she's saying Sgt. Pepper's and beyond was too complex and experimental for women to enjoy? Wow.. thanks from a huge Beatle fan hahaha
that ultraviolence I’ve only started watching the video and haven’t heard exactly what she said yet but I’d say they alienated a lot of their fan base in between, “I want to hold your hand” and “blue jay way” but that’s not exclusive to just females, I’d say the same is true of fellas too.
i hate how some women infantilize other women in the name of feminism.
adw wasd that’s not what I’m saying dumbass, I’m saying that some of the people that liked the early Beatles stuff are not the same that like the more experimental stuff. The first Beatles album is pure pop and attracted a lot of attention from particularly female fans, do you think Beatle mania would have happened the same if on the Ed Sullivan Show they played Blue Jay Way, Octopus’ Garden and Maxwells Silver Hammer? Nah mate
@aya i don't mind feminism, but the way it can and has been used is very disgusting. there are too many charlatans who use the cause to sow discord and fatten their own pockets.
i could go on a rant about almost every single group on both sides of the argument, but no one wants to read that, lol. in short, people just need to chill all around.
ob-la-di ob-la-da! SO COMPLEX!!! 😱
No shit the Beatles are four men
What the actual fuck. This needs way more likes
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The Beatles are for everyone.
Farquad Muckinfuss Amen.
As I’ve said, everyone’s second favorite band
Even a toddler can like the bea- oh wait the beat bugs
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I'm a teenage girl and her piece is just patronising - implying that I could only like "bubble gum pop"
You should seek help for your internalized misogyny
I believe she is talking about the widest album an act can get. Far more females are listening to Taylor Swift and Adele than Samantha Fish and Beth Hart. Far more guys are listening to Samantha Fish and Beth Hart than they are Taylor Swift and Adele.
orlock20 sauce?
What are you doing here, girl? Have you already met your average daily dose of Mariah, Britney, Christina etc :D ?
orlock20 beth hart is the shit
I just tried to read the original article and I couldn't make it past the "grunge" part. Grunge was literally the progressive reaction to the systemic misogyny that dominated the music scene at the time. Yeah, grunge knocked Michael Jackson off the charts. You know who else it knocked off the charts? "Cock-rock" hair bands. Kurt Cobain constantly spoke of feminist values, denounced "macho" douchebaggery, and wrote multiple anti-rape songs (happily risking the alienation of the frat bros in his audience). Eddie Vedder literally wrote "Pro-Choice" on his arm during a high-profile concert. How can a writer masquerade as a feminist while assuming women aren't capable of appreciating musical styles that don't cater to their man-assigned stereotypes??
THANK YOU!!!
speaking against rape alienates "fratboys"?
i learn something new everyday.
Territorial pissings is my shit
@@APAL880 It doesnt alienate 'frat boys'. Maybe a stereotypical one, but not all of them. The thing that alienated them was not objectifying women.
Yeah but you can't dance to Jeremy or bump it in your ride so Eddy Vedder is a racist... or a misogynist, or whatever the article is about this time.
I've never thought of any music as "for women" or "for men", and I don't think I ever will.
Thats because you arent a lunatic
This article did get me thinking though. I’m not gonna lie.
I won’t lie, when I was younger I used to think that “Taylor Swift was for girls” and vice versa. But I feel like that’s because of how society around me treated music. Now I listen to anything and I don’t think most anyone cares what men/women listen to
Honestly the only people who’d put a gender on music would probably be
1. Fox News
Or
2. You’re angry and bored grandparents
I can’t say the same there are tons of r&b act aimed at a female audience though that doesn’t exclude males from listening. Boyz II Men comes to mind. But I love the song end of the road by them so whatever.
Do a Beatles: Worst to Best
Saul Lara ARE YOU KIDDING ME THEY'VE NEVER MADE BAD MUSIC THEY'RE THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME
he said worst, which means the worst could also be legendary album, but worst than all of their others.
You mean best to best
Saul Lara i think the white album would be the worst
Thewdd , thank you.
The Beatles may be for the men, but cracking a cold one is for the boys.
NivMizzetJT this was great^
I just died
*Applause*
no
NivMizzetJT hell yeah
I can safely assure you, that as soon as I began to love The Beatles (I was six), I instantly transformed into a stuffy, angry old man. That's just how the world works, dude.
justakarefreekiwi XDDDD
I knew Paul McCartney was in Wings, but I didn't know he was a Beatle. Wow. The more you know. Thanks Fantano!
Matt Wales wtf really?
Don Rooster No. Not really.
I spat laughed! Well done.
Whatta reply
LMAO i was about to lecture ur arse
> prog rock founded
> popular music ruined forever for women
Tmec Rep Yes. This is a logical conclusion.
Le Dnak Mem WHERE'S THE 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID WOMAN GUYS!?!?!?!?1?
I don't really get why women aren't allowed to enjoy prog. Women can be technically gifted musicians capable of appreciating compositional and performative complexity, as well, and it's sexist to think otherwise.
Why don't women like prog?
Psst... they actually do
Chris Check I have friends who are girls that listen to prog
Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds changes its time signature from 3/4 (waltz) to 4/4 (standard rock beat) and would not be a good song to dance to for most people.
***** Absolutely! I'm just pointing out why it's not a dance song.
It's a dance song....you dance in circles...ya know, for funnsies haha
I like how she assigned nerdiness as being a male trait too, becuase you know girls can't be nerds or enjoy nerdy music.
I mean stuff like math rock, or progressive rock. Very techinical and complex music.
She even says EDM is either too obnoxious and bro-ey or too intricate and nerdy, as if women can't enjoy intricate music and need something chill and predictable or their ovaries will dry up and die
So, in this chick's head, what *are* women capable of enjoying?
bob loblaw probably the same top 40 garbage that she listens to.
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TheNinja404 what's with the green arrows
ragon It's a meme, you dip
BUT HE GOT FEATURED ON PEWDIEPIE SO HES ALIVE AGAIN
Imagine thinking "A day in the life", one of the greatest songs of all time, is "forgettable".
Thomas Monahan can I just say I hate the fact that no one I know who has ever listened to a day in the life has ever acknowledged just how overwhelming the thunderous crescendo sounds in a day in the life are. Like I show them and it gets to that part and their faces don’t light up they just have neutral faces...how the fuck....like it’s not like I told them it was gonna happen..they had no idea...how are u not blown away by the one thing that you will probably never ever hear in music other than in this song?
@@fusakei1825 exactly. i really like the lyrics to that song too for some reason even though they're pretty abstract.
its a remarkable masterpiece
Anthony, I want to point out that you have superior diction. English is not my mother tongue, but I can easily follow and understand your speech. Your videos are great language practice.
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@@liamf2300 He could give me some melon head
i... agree!
Same!
This is SO true
Enforcing gender roles in music (or in general) sounds pretty problematic to feminism if you ask me.
Isn't the entire article blatantly sexist saying that girls wouldn't like it because it's too serious. Isn't that really insulting to the intelligence of women. "Oh no, this music isn't geared to women anymore because women can't enjoy media that conveys complex ideas "
TheNuclearNoodle SJWs are quite possibly the most racist, sexist idiots to inhabit the earth. They blocked a proposal to stop straight - ticket voting because, get this, the black people wouldn't be able to understand it therefore it was racist
_Most of the left_ isn't like that, but I pretty much am talking about the vast majority of SJWs, that's kind of a defining characteristic of what a SJW is.
Anyway: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rejects-michigan-ban-on-straight-ticket-voting/2016/09/09/7ce6bff6-7533-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html can't find the article I read earlier, but here's one from a quick search on straight ticket voting that's mostly the same, but the wording is a little better so it doesn't fit with my point above as easily.
"The black labor organization, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Common Cause sued, saying the law was meant to discourage minority voters who overwhelmingly choose Democrats."
And as an aside while we're on the topic: "[...]the elimination of the procedure would slow the voting process and create long lines in precincts where African Americans are most likely to vote."
It's funny that people don't seem to think that a shortage of polling areas in minority communities is the problem, the problem is that _they aren't being rushed through fast enough, obviously._
No law can do that, that's as undemocratic as it gets. I just hate straight ticket voting because some of our worst congressmen are impossible to vote out because their voting districts are deep in D or R territory and straight ticket voting just exacerbates the problem.
Are you able to read? They said it's because not being able to vote straight ticket would put blacks at a disadvantage. How the hell else do you interpret that? Didn't say anything about them not having the option to split their ticket, it was the opposite.
Also, I don't watch Fox News, but go ahead and pigeonhole me into whatever binary poltical camp you think fits you, since apparently you're not capable of thinking outside of a very small box.
The entire article is blatantly sexist, absolutely. And like catnip to people who want an excuse to trot out their anti-sjw conspiracy theories, clearly...
... are you guys incapable of simply enjoying the dismantling of some deluded article writer without trying to spread your politics all over it? Seriously? Come on. Can you go a minute without saying "sjw"? Or is that too much to ask?
The entire point of this article was taking a current event and trying to add nonexistent sexist undertones to it. You can tell she hasn't even listened to the album, she just saw "Sgt Pepper 50th" in the news and thought to herself "Hmmm, how can I be a victim of this??". Add in some irrelevant Gender Studies bullshit and boom, you have another quality Salon article.
Stonewall Jackson Thanks, Stonewall.
“How can I be a victim of this”? Hahahaha. Perfect man.
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Dearest Amanda, I didn't drop $50 on an original picture disc of Sgt. Pepper's for nothing. It's a damn good album. Sincerely, a female comfortably saying fuck off
I feel like Revolver would've been bigger than Sgt. Pepper's if John didn't make the "We are bigger than Jesus" comment in 1966. It took most of the attention away from the album. Focusing only on John's comments, which caused riots against The Beatles from hardcore Christians in the south. Revolver to me is actually more ahead of its time than Sgt Pepper's. Bands today still try to sound like the Beatles Revolver era.
I agree fully. Revolver was the most innovative album they ever made and had John not made the stupid statement it could have perhaps been looked at in that way. Instead the attention was on John's word rather than what remarkable album came out that year completely changing pop music and pop culture.
Jonathan Gomez
Jonathan Gomez revolver will always be my favorite album and cover art.
Close though i mean i don't know anyone who doesn't know the Beatles so in away there almost at same level as jesus
Revolver is my favorite Beatles album but Sgt. Pepper is undeniably much more diverse from track to track
The Beatles may be for men, but Saturdays are for the boys
Jamo Say No and popping a cold one
+Mike Craig crackin' open*
Jamo Say No Crack open a 🅱️old one with the gang
Arnar Er Besturson *🅱rack
*getting bevied with the lads
Beatles: Worst to Best to mark the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Peppers!
This!
yeeessssss
Alex Leggatt Revolver > White Album > Abbey Road > Sgt Pepper > Rubber Soul > A Hard Days Night
Wow, what a wretched piece of pseudo-journalism.
were.... were the Beatles supposed to be a dance group anyway... wtf
also, I’m a teenage girl and I listen to punk rock. sorry Amanda, I’m a traitor. music should belong to all of us who like it.
THE FACT THAT
SO MANY BOOKS
THE BEATLES
OR
MOST SIGNIFICANT
BANNED
The Beatles worst to best pls
TheMrHazza88 -
Beatles for Sale
With The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Magical Mystery Tour
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A Hard Day's Night
Abbey Road
Please Please Me
Revolver
Help!
The Beatles (White Album)
Let It Be
Rubber Soul
Worst to best, saying Beatles for Sale is least-favorite.
+theBLVCKowl For me the worst was let it be
They all are amazing! How can you even do a worst list?
TimMakesVideos that's John Lennon. Not the Beatles.
"If you are a woman don't go listen to our music, it is not for you" John Lennon - 1967
Oh my God
That's honestly a shitty quote.
+Cofee Really?
+Cofee
Try looking above you
"We started out as a recruitment group for the local white supremacist organisation, but then we realised that we liked making music together, and it just sort of evolved from there." -Paul McCartney, 1965
I dont listen to the Sgt Pepper album because it opresses my mom and my sister
Brian Melendez XD
A fellow woman should know better than labeling music for men and music for women. Stupid article!
Should I just ditch my psychedelic rock, metal, punk and wave for Taylor Swift? Stop listening to Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Joni Mitchell, Fever ray etc.? Since I'm a female.... God dammit.
theoretically09 welp, time to remove, beatles, Alice cooper, ozzy, black sabbath from my playlist, coz i should listen to Taylor Swift, since im a girl and shouldn't be listening to rock, pop, and many more music made by men.
anthony can you describe your process for respecting women
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Can I just point out that she called it "Lucy in the Sky with the Diamonds"
Pretty sure someone's said this but whatever
Your new hairstyle looks really good
Your new comment doesn't tho
Damn, got me there lil gayboat
my dad is 70 and he says the beatles were seen as like a boy band compared to the stones until they did this
What about revolver? I think it’s just as good, just without the “concept album” concept...
Daniel Almada They stopped being a boy band when they made Revolver. Boy bands don’t really make Indian or psychedelic music
And rightfully so tbh
@@ianprescott7924 No love for Rubber Soul?
Revolver
I feel the same way George did when Yoko ate his biscuits
That bitch really had to steal someone's biscuits. >:(
"That b****! She just ate my biscuits!"
- George Harrison(was a pirate once, also wrote "I was so young when I was born" because he could)
Sorry but ....... the 🅱️eatles are for the 🅱️oys
An actual Lemon buh-buh-buh-bois
The 🅱️eatles is for 🅱️oys, 🅱️old🅱️lay is for men.
…and 🅱️ands are for 🅱️oys only. Damn, rock music is sexist in a nutshell .
Bop shoo wop, bop shoo wop
Let's talk about Boys now
Jacob Bryant yeah yeah boys
People who think that rock and roll was created by white men, was all about white men, and only appealed to white men, has never heard of *_Sister Rosetta Tharpe._* Her stlyings and abilities inspired just about everyone. She's worth a look, for anyone who cares about rock history, guitar history, and more. Watch her handle her electric guitar, and you'll say, "Ah, so THAT is where Hendrix got his moves!"
Imagine making the best album of the 20th century just to have a salon writer shit all over it
I do follow your point, although Revolver and Abbey Road are greater imo
I mean, I wouldn't give a shit. It's an inexpert opinion that next to no one paid attention to. I would be counting my money and reminding everyone that I started Wings.
You read that vice article on Radiohead too? They really don’t get it.
I'm just amazed she still gets paid. By Joan Walsh or whomever the editor of Salon is these days. Does she have an audience outside her base of Twitter followers or is this just another case of pundit-class nepotism?
I grew up with the Beatles. both my mother and my father love the Beatles. some will say anything to downgrade greatness.
Joe Kurr She failed to bring it down to her level
I'm as liberal as they come but this is why people are turned off by liberals. Not everything has to become a whine session.
100% agreed
Bravo! And, as a conservative, I'll add that there are conservatives who are just as bad - for every liberal writer whining about how the Beatles threaten their female identity, there's a writer complaining elsewhere about how the Beatles threaten their anti-feminist/anti-SJW conservative identity, or their anti-Satanist Christian identity, or anti-Semitic/anti-Judeo-Christian atheist/pagan/satanist identity, or their local nationalist or anti-popular culture identity, or whatever. We've raised generations of people of all sorts whose only common form of popular entertainment takes the form of finding reasons to feel offended and threatened about everything and then ranting and whining about it until someone promises to kiss it and make it feel better....
You realize insular liberals saying this has nothing to do with party values. And you can just become a leftist like me instead of a weak kneed liberal
@@MaxSnowDude He is a leftist. He just said he was a liberal. Besides, he said he isn't surprised by disillusionment, not liberals being nonpartisan.
That's just facts right there
"Not their best album"?
I smell a NOT GOOD coming up.
Damn, I wish I was a man so I could listen to The Beatles 😥Amanda get a grip girl 😆
EwaKor93 me too
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Obviously she knows nothing about music.
Robert Morris she's probably a soccer mom, who only listens to kidz bop, and criticised the original versions.
"preposterous paragraphs in this piece..."
I'm absolutely admiring and amused with your agreeable alliteration.
I don't get how she had to make this album about gender. I love this album and have listened to it through and through, and would ya know, I'm a weeman:)
shh, you'll disturb her in her cognitive dissonance
Its 2017. EVERYTHING is about gender (unless its about race or sexual preference)
juliawedo Its clear shes not familiar with the Beatles music other than a few radio tunes. Salon just wanted to take this opportunity to bitch about sexism where it doesn't exist. Oh well, some people suck
Internalized misogyny.
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lol great idea
"Women can't look at the Beatles' suits without getting offended." Well, I guess I suffer every time I look at my poster of the album on my wall...
As a female person, I'm kinda offended by this author. Like, I'm not the biggest Beatles fan just because they're not quite my cup of tea, but that has nothing to do with my gender. Nü metal is my favorite genre of music, which I don't think this author would say is feminine enough for me to enjoy. And I think gay men enjoy pop music more than anybody else honestly (not that that's a bad thing).
Bands make lighter, poppier music when they're young and trying to succeed in the industry and then evolve and mature when they're older and more established. That's not uncommon, and has nothing to do with sexism, unless most girls just aren't that deep.
The Beatles: Worst to Best? Yes please! 👌
SpontImagoSoul there is no worst of the Beatles
secureteam12 The Beatles are my favorite band but they definitely have some duds
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He’s said before his favorite is The White Album.
The great thing about the Beatles is that their musical style kind of grew alongside the development of their original teenage girl audience. A 14-year-old girl who stanned the Beatles in '64 would've been 17 by the time Sgt. Pepper's came out - between those ages most people change quite a lot and I can imagine a lot of those core fans would've seen their personal development during the growing pains of teenagehood reflected in the ever-changing musical style of their favourite band.
Anthony Fantano has 500,000 white subscribers and 500,000 black subscribers - he's like the logic of TH-cam
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This was really hard to watch as I couldn't seem to look at the top left of the video without losing vision, but apart from that, great video!
The issue I feel with modern music journalism is either it being mind numbingly bland or it being a series of mind numbing attempts to gender, politicise and find problems for every record released. It creates a pressure for musicians (pop especially) to box themselves as being a sole 'political' movement.
Most of my experience with music journalism is with metal music journalism, and so I'll add to the list of complaints about it my complaint that modern music journalism - or at least modern metal music journalism - tends to be more about the journalist than the music. Maybe that's not just metal journalism - perhaps the fact that modern journalists are just talking about themselves, showing off, and patting themselves on the back contributes to the other problems with music journalism in general, specifically that it tends to be bland, mind-numbing, and focused on goofy identity-issues that the journalist can use to show off for the readers with?
YEAH I'M THE SHIT, TELL ME DO I STINK - ASAP ROCKY
IT FEEL GOOD WAKIN UP TO MONEY IN THE BINK
CJ alicéa 3 MODEL BITCHES, COCAINE IN THE SINK
AND I'M SO 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT, I MIGHT ROLL UP IN A TANK.
Sounds more like a Wayne lyric.
AnSoR thanks for ruining this thread with your gay ass real hip hop agenda.🙄
A BEATLES WORST TO BEST PLEASE. My favorite is The White Album personally.
Beatles worst to best plz
As a little girl back in that era, I loved them getting weird. I thought they were my best friends. Also was in Jr. High , in a Chicago suburb when Disco Demolition Night happened . And Steve Dahl was Was OUR DJ . Completely felt that moment . And then cranked up Cheap Trick ! New wave Beatles , basically
Lol “long haired Led Zeppelin bros blowing up disco records in the middle of the baseball field”
Sounds like a good time, honestly.
Christian L lol i'd pay money to see it!
Salon is so amazing. They consistently get more obnoxious, biased and hypocritical with every article! How the shit is that even possible i mean you'd think that they would accidentally write something decent once every full moon but NOPE.
face reveal at 1k subs?
I am not able to like your comment, it have to stay at 69 likes.
Salon.com, the beacon of journalism.
honestly fucking baffled. what is so male about this album? i don't understand
Because it’s (loosely) conceptual and doesn’t pander to anyone in particular.
kayl Well take a look at their outfits, kinda gay right. RIGHT. And what could possibly exclude women more than the concept of males+males?? Yeah☺️
Sierra Llor you fucking genius you made me laugh
Sierra Llor Too bad that album cover wasn't straight enough for the album to be listenable.
Album cover...
My grandmother, a reputably female human, owned this album on vinyl.
Amanda is stupid! Women love Sargent Pepper too! It's one of my favorite albums of all time and I'm a chick.
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ANTHONY DO A BEATLES BEST TO WORST!!
As a woman, I'm saying this Amanda berk is daft. I love Sgt. Pepper's. Perhaps not as much as the White Album or Abbey Road, but I love it. I'm so sick of SJW's trying to speak for womankind as if they are the ones who know what all women (or is it womyn?) think, like, feel, et cetera. I am my own person and I happen to be a massive fan of 95% of all Beatles material.
Also: books name the Beatles as the greatest and most influential band of our time for one simple reason: They Are Just That.
Amanda is obviously some kind of radfem idiot who thinks female/femininity = pink colours and bubblegum pop. the worst kind of activist on the internet, fuck.
I think it's just a clickbait piece mixed with Amanda going "Feminism is trendy. I'm a woman, so what I think must be feminism". Not some SJW conspiracy.
Saying this is feminist when she's trying to dictate what girls can listen to through the whole thing (and just the stupidity of the whole piece) just shows you've never met a feminist lol. Not to say there aren't some idiotic people out there that call themselves feminists though.
I'm a radfem and I can tell you it's the opposite, we're completely against gender roles and all that bs. Amanda sounds like she's trying to get on the liberal/third wave feminist trend and failing, hard.
I’d honestly say the Velvet Underground were more influential to music as a whole in the long term. The Beatles aren’t far behind though.
@@fowlae4414 I'd say Zeppelin were more influential than either. They are imitated more often than just about any other band.
Macca Lives yeah, and the post kinda makes me ashamed for liking the beatles, and having a abbey road poster on my wall. Tbh i actually wish she never wrote that, shes one big lunatic and a stupid soccer mom, smh.
She’s mad because the Beatles stopped making basic pop. Wow
Because she's basic.
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I read Salon today, oh boy
Electrk I blew my mind out in my car!
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I read a stinkpiece today oh boy, about a whiny bitch who’s privileged as fuck
Beatles worst to best!!
Rip
12. Beatles for sale
11. With the Beatles
10. Please Please Me
9. Help!
8. Hard Day’s Night
7. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Let It Be
5. Abbey Road
4. Rubber Soul
3. Sgt. Pepper
2. The White Album
1. Revolver
In my opinion, they didn’t have a “worst” or a “bad” album. Even their early albums are great pop albums, where almost every song is a classic tune. And Mystery Tour and Let It Be are great as well. If some random band had put out those albums, I firmly believe that people would consider them masterpieces.
5:22 who are these four artists you show here? I really want to check them out.
as a reptile my only gripe is that nobody makes music for Reptiles.
down with the humanarchy.
'She's Leaving Home' is forgettable. Yep, okay.
Beatles in 1965: "Guys, we've been appealing to all these women who've been buying all our records, we've got groupies chasing us around everywhere we go... Let's just chuck that all away because MEN, am I right?"
"The Beatles are just a rock band"
-John Lennon (Ex-Beatle)
The by far most successful rock band though
Lucas It is true. So I guess you are claiming that a act has sold more albums? Care to name them?
I’m a young woman. I like The Beatles. I don’t like dancing. I like listening to The Beatles without dancing. You don’t have to dance to a song!!!
Phew, I read this article and I'm glad I wasn't the only person perplexed by it.
How can you listen to the medley on Abby road and think that is just “for men”
How can you listen to golden slumbers and think that????
Manthony Splaintano
lol
Hi, I'm a woman, and this is my favorite album.
The beatles at the beginning made rock and roll and pop to later dance with rubber soul and revolver where it became rock and at that time they lost female fans and the boys began to follow it more
I happen to love the growth and progression of The Beatles as musicians. I find that bands that don't progress are pretty boring. Every time I listen to Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt.Peppers back to back I marvel at the maturity of songwriting. George Harrison's guitar playing from Rubber Soul to Revolver is a revelation. I think this woman doesn't know a thing about music, which is a shame. Loved the commentary! I guess I am a nerdy male because I love great music, too!
Somebody needs to hurry up and tell all the female Beatles fans on the planet that they should stop enjoying their music immediately.
I'm female and I LOVE The Beatles. I guess that "defeminizes" (does this word even exist?) me, huh?
I came across this article through a thread on /mu/. I was hoping it'd find its way to you and be worthy of doing a stink piece on. I love these stink pieces. Always insightful and entertaining.
Your STINKPIECE segments are so f-ing good.
As a woman and a leftist this is one of the most sexist and anti-feminist opinion pieces I’ve ever read. That being said, the condescending treatment of things teenage girls like is real - but she says nothing interesting about that at all.
This exactly
Sgt. Peppers is my favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers album dawg! 'Give it Away With a Little Help from my Friends', aw dudesss, da best.
I really love how this woman states that the only thing women want to hear is a dance beat. Now, I love me me an occasional dance beat, but I also love me some good ol' Sgt. Peppers and Revolver sometimes. Of course, as one woman with some fucking self awareness, I don't deign to think I can speak for every woman on Earth either...
At first I thought you'd be reviewing an old Maddox article I didn't know existed.
To this Amanda whats-her-name, in 1967 me mum bought Sgt. Pepper's. She was 29 at the time, and didn't buy a lot of rock albums, more like Simon & Garfunkel or the Supremes. But she played this, and loved it, and us little nippers did too.
I think I'm in love with you
We should see other people, sorry :/