I hired someone to catalogue my music collection and organize everything. The strange thing is that women artist only make up about 5% of my music collection. I NEVER really noticed that until now. I'm talking about 1000's of cd's and albums.

I wonder why that is? I guess women don't make good music. At least where my taste is concerned. Any thoughts?

Graycap23 said:

Yeah. You hired someone to organize your music? lol how? Who(m)? How much? Why?

When it comes to vocalists.....I'm slightly biased towards women. At one point women artists made up the bulk of my collection, but now I'd say it's almost equal in gender.

iconsweat said:

Studio being built and I don't have time.

Graycap23 said:

Oh it's a studio and such. How big is your collection? Wait.Nevermind. Im sure it's intricate and such, no wonder.

Seeing that my favorite artists are overwhelmingly men, my collection is made of mostly dudes. Actually, over the last 20 years I've been buying CDs, many if not most of them are hip-hop or instrumental jazz CDs. Both male-dominated genres. Of the 700 or so I have, I'd bet only about 100 of them are female (Sade, Ella, Me'Shell, Janet, etc.) and a few dozen more include females in the group (Fleetwood Mac, The Family, Digable Planets, etc.)

Someone did a similar thread some time ago...

namepeace said:

That's pretty much the same for me .

Graycap23 said:

Graycap23 said:

Me too. Not sure why though.

:::spins Alice Smith:::

Okay, not an argument but still

Graycap23 said:

That's so wrong. Women make up around two thirds of my collection. If anyone follows my posts in those 'what are you listening to' threads, you'll see almost every album i have listed in there is by a woman or female fronted band.

So no Mariah Mary J Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Debbie Harry Aretha Dionne The Supremes Tina on your collection?

you must be a heavy metal fan are U?

dammme said:

Rap is another genre that is just as male-dominated.

That's interesting! I go thru periods where I listen to mostly women, though my collection is largely made up of male artists. When I cover songs in my live set, I seem to unconsciously pick songs by black women a lot.

Same here, actually. I absolutely adore Kate Bush and Bjork, but not much else as far as female artists go. Funny, I never really thought about it before.

Graycap23 said:

thats different to my porn collection 99.99% are women the other 00.01% is adverts for after shave.

oldpurple said:

Other artists besides Prince make up 5% of my music collection!

Does Celine Dion count ?




P.S Don't tell anyone.....

minneapolisgenius said:

That's because you're in love with a lot of the artists in your collection.

Reading this thread is getting me annoyed. I'm gonna have to leave.

sextonseven said:

I knew this thread would piss you off.

I've never tallied the gender breakdown of my collection, but I'd be amazed if women made up more than 5% of mine as well. I would never claim that men and women don't possess musical ability in equal measure, but it's definitely the case that very few women express themselves musically in a way that interests me. I don't think that should be too surprising though - I'm a guy and I think it's only reasonable that male performers would tend to resonate with me. The same thing generally holds true for me when it comes to novelists, non-fiction writers and film-makers. That's not to say I'm not interested in the things women have to say - I just generally don't care for the way they tend to say it.

damosuzuki said:

Okay, I'm back.

One of my friends attributed my affinity for women in music to the woman inside of me trying to get out.

Whatever.

More likely I'm guilty of the same thing of which I accused Minneapolisgenius.

dammme said:

At least heavy metal has Lita Ford. So that's no excuse.

TonyVanDam said:

Metal has a lot more women than Lita Ford. Like:

Lacuna Coil
Nightwish
Kittie
My Ruin
Arch Enemy
Lullacry
Otep
The Gathering
Flowing Tears
Flyleaf
Damone
and many more...

band edit
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sextonseven said:

yeah... what he said

I think that my music collection is pretty mixed. But my favorites are Christina A, Freddie, and Prince. & I prefer Freddie Mercury as a singer over Mariah, Whitney, and Celine.

sextonseven said:

The Runaways

TonyVanDam said:

That's kind of obvious since you said Lita Ford already.