Thursday, June 28, 2012
No One Told Me About Workaholics!?
What a great, great show. So great it gives me hope for the future, great.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Grrrrl Bands
A few months ago I got to see the wonderful Wild Flag at the El Ray. These ladies rocked hard, and about halfway through the show I went into feminism in popular culture mode. Wild flag is the supergroup of some members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, and the Minders. To contextualize where I'm headed with this let me mention that before the show started I overheard a gentleman say, "you know, I think it's really unfair that Sleater-Kinney is labeled as a lesbian band". Interesting spin, bro. I haven't followed Sleater-Kinney and to unpack this guys remark, "I'm 100% LA douche". Still, while watching Wild Flag, I felt differently than many other larger shows I've attended. I watched on with an eerie critical appreciation and respectful distance that is usually not present in going to rock concerts. It felt like I was watching a group of friends playing. What was missing was that I didn't want to fuck them.
The mythos of the rock band, rock star, or rock concert dictate a certain level of sexual tension and attraction. I would be interested in doing a mini-study on men's reaction to a band like Wild Flag or the Breeders in relationship to how they feel listening to oh, say Blink 182.
I hesitated on writing about this because I wasn't sure how to flesh out the equation completely, and then I stumbled across this video.
I've never heard of this band before and it's not an all girl band, but I am more viscerally stimulated by this female vocalist than I am while listening to Wild Flag. I would totally at least make out with her. She's no less passionate than Carrie Brownstien, but there is an undeniable level of seductiveness in the latter. It's important too for me to define my terms in regards to listening and point-of-view. Listening to female pop stars to me is the "we" of listening, there is a certain degree of activity on my part in meeting the vocalist half-way, it's both an active and passive act. Most male pop-rock groups I listen to is like listening to something that is being told at me, and I adapt a more passive listening role, and there's a level of magnetism to this opposition. What is fascinating to me is that there is a gradation of mesmerism in terms of female rock groups or vocalists and the real motivation behind making and listening to rock music really is just driven by who you want to have sexy time with.
The mythos of the rock band, rock star, or rock concert dictate a certain level of sexual tension and attraction. I would be interested in doing a mini-study on men's reaction to a band like Wild Flag or the Breeders in relationship to how they feel listening to oh, say Blink 182.
I hesitated on writing about this because I wasn't sure how to flesh out the equation completely, and then I stumbled across this video.
I've never heard of this band before and it's not an all girl band, but I am more viscerally stimulated by this female vocalist than I am while listening to Wild Flag. I would totally at least make out with her. She's no less passionate than Carrie Brownstien, but there is an undeniable level of seductiveness in the latter. It's important too for me to define my terms in regards to listening and point-of-view. Listening to female pop stars to me is the "we" of listening, there is a certain degree of activity on my part in meeting the vocalist half-way, it's both an active and passive act. Most male pop-rock groups I listen to is like listening to something that is being told at me, and I adapt a more passive listening role, and there's a level of magnetism to this opposition. What is fascinating to me is that there is a gradation of mesmerism in terms of female rock groups or vocalists and the real motivation behind making and listening to rock music really is just driven by who you want to have sexy time with.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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