{"id":2900,"date":"2010-08-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:18:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:18:01","slug":"bad-girl-garage-rock-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bad-girl-garage-rock-wnba\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bad Girl&#8221; Garage Rock = WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lsoXZMuoUp4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is not a politically correct opinion I&#8217;m proud to share, but I was listening to that Little Steven digital radio station now and then in the car we rented on our trip to New Mexico and just about every modern-day &#8220;bad girl&#8221; garage rock band that came up for play made me feel like I was watching the WNBA. Garage rock, to me, is such a dude&#8217;s domain. Hearing women try to cop that certain garage rock stance strikes me as highly awkward and lacking in&#8230;<em>something<\/em>. Likewise, I know the women who compete at the WNBA level could kick my ass on the hardwood, but there&#8217;s something unnatural about them playing basketball. There are other sports that women can play as naturally and gracefully as men, such as tennis (which I actually prefer to watch played by women thanks to their ability to maintain a volley), but women rarely have the natural motions that I come to expect from years of watching NBA games. Maybe it&#8217;s all the ponytails flopping around as they battle for a rebound and I&#8217;m simply a horrible person. (The Goldie and the Gingerbreads clip, on the other hand, is more like traditional girl group music, which I think fits women as well as tennis. This was one good band I heard on Little Steven&#8217;s show that I did not previously know about.)<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, listening to that Little Steven station confirmed my belief that neo-garage is one of the hardest neo-genres to do well. The attitude copped by the original wave of garage bands is so outdated in this day and age. Hearing a modern crop of dumpy guys bitch about the fact that some girl won&#8217;t give them the time of day is played out, isn&#8217;t it? Why don&#8217;t these guys take up one of the new genres that invite dumpiness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a politically correct opinion I&#8217;m proud to share, but I was listening to that Little Steven digital radio station now and then in the car we rented on our trip to New Mexico and just about every modern-day &#8220;bad girl&#8221; garage rock band that came up for play made me feel like <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bad-girl-garage-rock-wnba\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}