{"id":5512,"date":"2011-01-26T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2011-01-26T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:18:17","slug":"female-fronted-nineties-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/female-fronted-nineties-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Female-Fronted Nineties Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5513\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5513\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5513\" title=\"002 Adult female (anterior view)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/female-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/female-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/female.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female fronted.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The following term appears in the headline of a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/band-of-the-week-welsh-trio-joy-formidable-turn-classic-rock-influences-into-noisy-pop-20110125\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> article on some &#8220;up-and-coming&#8221; Welsh band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Female-Fronted Nineties Rock<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The subtitle of the piece continues the patronizing tone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welsh trio&#8217;s debut disc recalls classic albums by bands like Hole, Elastica and PJ Harvey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What a pathetic, offensive reduction of a band&#8217;s work! The &#8220;female&#8221; thing is bad enough; call a woman a woman. This isn&#8217;t biology lab. Also, beside the fact that I can&#8217;t stand Hole, how do they fit in with Elastic and PJ Harvey other than era of popular breakthrough, vaginas, and a degree of shared &#8220;attitude&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Perhaps\u00a0this band is\u00a0thrilled by the comparison and the <em>RS<\/em> ink, but to me this is no different than comparisons in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s, respectively,\u00a0of The Busboys\u00a0and Living Color to a handful of unrelated African-American rockers\u00a0based almost solely on the fact that the\u00a0band members are\u00a0all &#8220;negroes.&#8221; With <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/tag\/exploitive-black-rock-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploitive Black Rock History Month<\/a><\/strong> upon us, what other\u00a0offensive\u00a0biases would you like to see eliminated from rock criticism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following term appears in the headline of a recent Rolling Stone article on some &#8220;up-and-coming&#8221; Welsh band. &#8230;Female-Fronted Nineties Rock The subtitle of the piece continues the patronizing tone: Welsh trio&#8217;s debut disc recalls classic albums by bands like Hole, Elastica and PJ Harvey What a pathetic, offensive reduction of a band&#8217;s work! The <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/female-fronted-nineties-rock\/' 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":[342],"tags":[231,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512"}],"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=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}