'Beatles took music from girls', says feminist.

py2006

Specifically the Sergeant Pepper album apparently!

It transformed the band from something girls could enjoy to a band just for men!!

Amanda Marcotte added that teenyboppers liked Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr because they wanted to 'f*** the Beatles'.

She wrote on Salon: 'Sgt. Pepper' is a good pop record, don't get me wrong.

'But it's a record I resent, because it helped cement this notion that music for girls is silly and music for men is artistically significant.

'It's a notion that is doubly appalling because history shows, time and time again, that girl-tastes are the ones that are ahead of the curve.'

Sigh!

http://dailym.ai/2rsEadS

So what? Do we all have to agree with her or something?

Or can we safely ignore her and move on with our lives?

diomed

She wasn't around when the LP was released.
What would she know, she's just a girl.

demanufactured

Oh those crazy feminists... Up to no good again.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I too was just thinking, so what???

The world's full of idiotic people.

buried

Whats this wan's problem? Sure didn't she get it back with the Spice Grills

riffmongous

Nice job disguising the Daily Mail link, I actually clicked on it

py2006

riffmongous wrote: »

Nice job disguising the Daily Mail link, I actually clicked on it

Hah that's the link produced when you click share

osarusan

Feminists...great bunch of lads.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Well let's all pay lots of attention to her and click the link and take the whole thing seriously, I bet then we can stop people writing articles like this!

Junkyard Tom

Disgraceful. I'm not very good at judging the seriousness of events but I'd say this is worse than WWII.

tigger123

She's an idiot. Full stop. There's nothing more to it.

riffmongous

py2006 wrote: »

Hah that's the link produced when you click share

They must be disguising their own links

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

py2006 wrote: »

Hah that's the link produced when you click share

Because even they know nobody will wilfully click a Daily Mail link any more.

eviltwin

Who is the bigger idiot? Her for saying it or the people who give publicity to it? It's her opinion and she's entitled to it. That doesn't mean we have to give every looper attention.

Anesthetize

She can always go listen to Bikini Kill instead.

Badly Drunk Boy

buried wrote: »

Whats this wan's problem? Sure didn't she get it back with the Spice Grills

It was all about The Backstreet Boys for her. Have they made their 'Sgt. Pepper's' yet?

buried

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

It was all about The Backstreet Boys for her. Have they made their 'Sgt. Pepper's' yet?

'Sgt. Backstreet Boys lonely Bank Balance Reunion Tour'

Stigura

Good length would sort her out.

Murrisk

Eejit lets words ooze from her mouth. And?

Wibbs

py2006 wrote: »

Amanda Marcotte added that teenyboppers liked Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr because they wanted to 'f*** the Beatles'.

Lennon once remarked that every time his ego got out of hand, he'd muse on the fact that of all of them, Ringo got the most fan letters from women and that brought him back to earth.

'But it's a record I resent, because it helped cement this notion that music for girls is silly and music for men is artistically significant.

Note the underlined bits. Girls music is different to Women's music. In other news water is wet.

'It's a notion that is doubly appalling because history shows, time and time again, that girl-tastes are the ones that are ahead of the curve.'

Hahahahah... oh wait, she's serious... What a complete muppet. And who is producing this "ahead of the curve" music? That would be the blokes in the vast majority of cases. What she's actually saying with an irony she'll never understand is that "girl's music" is transitory, simplistic tat enslaved to fashion, but "Men's music" is more complex, more artistically significant and more permanent. #logicfail. Silly cow.

bear1

I agree with her tbh.
The album is pure fooking class

Harry Palmr

This is not entirely wrong though

'It's a notion that is doubly appalling because history shows, time and time again, that girl-tastes are the ones that are ahead of the curve.'

David Bowie was made a success by teenage girls before the art school boys took an interest for example.

Permabear

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twill

From her Wikipedia page:

Conservative columnist Charlotte Allen called Marcotte "perpetually outraged".

Sounds about right.

Wibbs

Permabear wrote: »

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Can't get much worse...

Ipso

People like this are a wet dream to misogynists.

Harry Palmr

Harry Palmr wrote: »

This is not entirely wrong though

David Bowie was made a success by teenage girls before the art school boys took an interest for example.

As did Sinatra and Elvis.

Crann na Beatha

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Murrisk

Anesthetize wrote: »

She can always go listen to Bikini Kill instead.

I lolled, so I did. Would also have worked well with 'woman' in the place of 'Cayman Islands'. :pac:

Persephone kindness

No they didn't but Elvis took it from black people.

Rothko

Anesthetize wrote: »

She can always go listen to Bikini Kill instead.

Nothing wrong with Bikini Kill

It isn't even her opinion. Her job is to write clickbait like every other rag nowadays. And she's clearly good at her job.

dr.fuzzenstein

So, teenage girls clearly lack the intelligence to appreciate anything other than shallow 3 minute pop and men of course do have the brains to fully appreciate every nuance of high art.
I don't think this woman has much regard for her sex.
It's all in the same vein as the usual "Equal rights but special treatment" bollocks.

Donald Trump

You just need to take the lady who wrote this and be patient with her. Try to use reason and logic. And when that inevitably fails, just leave it to Cartman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6XkFlygtJg

Irish Guitarist

I love Pink Floyd but I think they had better albums than Dark Side Of The Moon. There must be some way this shocking opinion can make me famous.

OldGoat

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I love Pink Floyd but I think they had better albums than Dark Side Of The Moon. There must be some way this shocking opinion can make me famous.

You just need to compare and contrast Pink Floyd to Kate Bush and the articles will almost write themselves.

Lux23

Do girls not like good music too? Stupid person.

Isn't she the one who had a vendetta against a bunch of male college students who were falsely accused of sexual assault - sounds like a prominent feminist writer from Clon and her crusade against the Ucd200

Ficheall

OldGoat wrote: »

You just need to compare and contrast Pink Floyd to Kate Bush and the articles will almost write themselves.

Call me a misogynist if you wish, but Kate Bush is painful to listen to.

OldGoat

/Shuns Ficheall

Her Hammersmith gigs were some of the best theatre I've had the pleasure of seeing.

Unpossible

Ficheall wrote: »

Call me a misogynist if you wish, but Kate Bush is painful to listen to.

Doesn't hurt me.
Do you wanna feel how it feels?
Do you wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me?

dr.fuzzenstein

Ficheall wrote: »

Call me a misogynist if you wish, but Kate Bush is painful to listen to.

Keep running up that hill...
Buy wouldn't know how that makes you a misogynist, just means you don't like Kate Bush, which is kind of like kicking a puppy...

dr.fuzzenstein

As for free speech, XKCD says it best

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Dirty Dingus McGee

Ficheall wrote: »

Call me a misogynist if you wish, but Kate Bush is painful to listen to.

I disagree and she was unbelievably beautiful aswell . Along with Grace Kelly she's at the top of my all time list.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Lennon tbf was a total pig towards women in his younger years.

He wasn't a nice boy by any means.

Poor Uncle Tom

diomed wrote: »

she's just a girl.

...but she's not just a pretty girl....

NewbridgeIR

Suas11 wrote: »

Nothing wrong with Bikini Kill

Except that Reject All American is full of hate.