Triple J today counted down "the top 100 songs of all time". Not one of them was sung by a woman. I'm not really sure what this means... but it honestly concerns and frightens me.

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Don't get me wrong - I believe many of the songs on the list were well-deserving of the honor. They're great songs, regardless of who sung them and what gender they were. But it frightens me that of all the great music that exists in the world, not one out of the one hundred was sung by a female. Not 1% of the 'greatest songs of all time' is sung by a woman.

Is there something unappealing about the sound of a woman's voice? Are women incapable of creating great music? Or is society still inherently (yet covertly) sexist even now in our modern, free-thinking and justice-defined world where society strives for and supposedly achieves equality between the genders?

One could argue that women in popular music are largely exploited, and most female-driven music is commercially conceived aural junk-food, citing your Britneys, Jessicas, Mileys, etc, and performers whose music seems to exist largely as a platform to show them gyrating in revealing clothing, and yes, sadly this is true. Even looking back over the years, music from women seems to be a generally easily digestible and essentially disposable commodity. Yet the same ideas can be said for many men in music - I'm sure Ricky Martin would never have had the 'success' he had were he not to have spent most of his filmclips naked from the waist up- and don't get me started on some of today's rap music. The Jonas Brothers, I will kindly not dissect any further.

The counter to this however is that not all women musicians and singers are like this. Whilst there exists a ridiculously large number of poor or simply adequate female singers in the world, one cannot deny there are women out there who's music has helped define genres and affected generations. Where on that list were such names as Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, Nina Simone, Missy Higgins, Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Imogen Heap, Whitney Houston, Patti Smith, Melissa Etheridge, ... Hell, even Jewel probably deserves a mention at least. There are countless other women I am forgetting, not to mention many bands with female frontmen. (Frontwomen?)

I'll wrap this up because I haven't had much sleep this weekend and am probably thinking slightly irrationally, but still. It just ... disturbs me somewhat. Not one female voice? I don't even know if it means anything, it could just be coincidence. Still. I'm not some radical feminist, but this kind of revelation still gives me some kind of guttural unsettled feeling and it's something I think I will look into further when I am not only more awake and able to look at this from a more... 'academic' point of view.

La la laaaa.

:) ?

Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.






You think I see nothing,
I see everything.
Tell me what do you see?
Less than you know.

http://left-of-centre.livejournal.com/157003.html

So it turns out I WAS in denial...

Where does time go?

Don't tell anyone yet, because it's not completely certain, but...

Later this year, I may be singing with Andrea Bocelli.

!!!

melbourne girl says:
my only problem is Ugly Men will require alot of ...well, ugly men.
MISH says:
yeah I know
MISH says:
and we don't know any ugly men
melbourne girl says: 
and even if we uglied them up, I'm sure they'd all object to being cast as 'the ugly men' =P
MISH says:
yes, none that would willingly play an ugly man.
MISH says: 
see I hit a few snags with Melbourne Girl too
melbourne girl says: 
yeah theyre all gonna be flawed 
MISH says: 
with the whole needing men thing
melbourne girl says:
lol, I should do a storyboard or something
melbourne girl says: 
ok no cos I cant be stuffed
MISH says:
I've done that =P
melbourne girl says:
lol wow comittment
MISH says:
well not a storyboard
MISH says:
but I've written down exactly what we should do for each bit
MISH says:
it's how I work!
melbourne girl says: 
lol. are we going to go hearding zebra on the plains of Waverly?
MISH says:
lol
melbourne girl says:
cos i dont think zebra are cheap ;-)
MISH says:
that was one of the snags.
MISH says:
there are a few bits where I'm not sure what we should do
melbourne girl says: 
well one of us could always dress up as the zebra
MISH says: 
LOL!!!!!
melbourne girl says:
cos that'll be cool
MISH says: 
I bet a zebra costume would not be cheap =P
melbourne girl says: 
LOL there's a zebra print bikini on sale in Dotti.... we could just streak across in that! =P
MISH says:
OMG. we could just stick bits of stripey material to us
melbourne girl says:
hearding "zebra"
MISH says:
hahahhaa
melbourne girl says:
lol thats what i meant, stripey material
MISH says:
omg funniest vision ever
melbourne girl says:
hahahah
melbourne girl says:
we can just spend a few hours chasing each other around in stripey jumpers, it'll be awesome
MISH says: 
hahahahha
MISH says: 
even if they think we're dickheads we'll have fun anyway
melbourne girl says:
im pretty sure Tripod are going to think anyone entering Idioclips is a dickhead, no matter what.  :-)
 

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This day should become an offical annual event.
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Guess who has as of today officially completed her first year of University Education? If your guess was something along the lines of "You, Amanda?", you'd be quite correct?

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I'm just really happy right now, and so glad about it.

For some reason or another, I am feeling like even though I have no idea where I'm going, or what I'm doing... things are working out right. And even if they're not they are all going to work out in the imminent future. I have this great internal swelling of hope and potential and aspirations and all sorts of good yummy feelings.


All the bad stuff seems to be ever-so-gradually melting away.

Now I have some free time I can also finally sort myself out properly. I'm going to have a good hard look at myself, my plans, and what I'm going to do in the next few weeks, months, years, and I feel really, really good about it. Here's hoping it all works out and I'm not just in denial.


Just thought I'd share. =)

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Only my two exams next week left. Then I might finally be free enough to SORT OUT MY FREAKING LIFE.





Quick note before I go:
One of my favourite television shows (ABC's The Sideshow) hasn't been renewed for next year and will most likely be axed. (If you want to get an idea of what it's like the various acts, I suggest going here). This is not good as, even if you aren't a fan, it's a show that's recently really found it's feet creatively, and has an interesting and really different concept which you just don't get on TV these days. I just feel like the show needs to be given a bit more of a chance and subsequently, so do the rest of the gnw_tv_fans.
If you're a fan of new Music, Comedy, Cabaret, Variety, and General Acts of Sideshow-Freak-ness, I STRONGLY URGE (aka beg =P ) you to help do something about saving the show here. There's a lot of links to petitions and various forums where you can make your voice heard, and a little more information on what's been happening.

If the above link didn't work: http://community.livejournal.com/sideshow_fans/33566.html




Sorry to spam my own LJ, I know I did something similar with The Glass House last year... but come on, I'm desperate here! All my favourite slightly satirical ABC shows keep getting cancelled! Not ALL of us worship the ground The Chaser walks on, you know! Although I will admit it's pretty clever (though not consistantly) and has grown on me... but it may have something to do with my secret insubstantiated belief that Chris and Chas are hiding a tragically passionate and illicit love affair from the other Chasers. Yes, it does make sense in my mind. No, I will not explain for you how my mind works. =P

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If only life were like that.

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