Girl Band to Gilla Band

Fandymo

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/1116/1260291-girl-band-change-name-and-apologise-for-misgendering/

Have you ever heard of such nonsense? Since when does a band i.e. a collection of musicians, have a gender?? Will the Gorillaz have to change their names? Blur now that they are older and not as speedy? Shakin' Stevens, unless he gets Parkinsons? The slow creep of the religion of wokeism into Ireland is speeding up.

Edit: Mods, I know there is a thread in the music forum, but there is a lot more traffic here and this is a current story.

DarkJager21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058218353/girl-band-to-gilla-band

Ridiculous nonsense, you really have zero integrity left when you do something like this just to appease a negligible minority.

antfin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179304#Comment_118179304

A "negligible minority"... girls?

Mary Black is trouble now. :D

Seriously though, can we have one space --a safe space even-- that is free from political ideologues? The imagination should be unbarricaded, artists should be able to start their work with a blank canvas. And if it's true that inspiration comes from 'outside' (as many artists report) then we really don't necessarily need some pasty-faced ghouls standing at the interface between imagination and expression, filtering out undesirable imaginings, cleansing the artwork --before it has begun-- of all absurdities, contraindications, surreality, and counterfantasies. Politics is pathological, puritanical, and totalitarian when it starts impinging on the imaginative faculty. What does art have to do with the pseudo-empiricism of political ideologues anyway? The art police can feck right off. :)

whisky_galore

Sh1t band looking for attention/gigs?

quokula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179399#Comment_118179399

Unfortunately the ideologues and art police are out in force attacking a band for choosing to changing their name, as if they have no right to do that.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179412#Comment_118179412

Re-read your second sentence to yourself. They MISGENDERED the band. Since when do bands have genders?? Jesus F Christ!!

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179421#Comment_118179421

Give a bullshit excuse for the name change and expect backlash. If they'd changed it and said nothing, no one would have batted an eyelid. It's the wokeness that annoys people. Appeasing a miniscule minority.

MilkyToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179354#Comment_118179354

Yeah that's definitely way better and these snivelling goony beardmen are definitely concerned about "girls".

🙄

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179427#Comment_118179427

It's H , Jesus H Christ not F.

MilkyToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179412#Comment_118179412

I'm female and couldn't give a single slimy **** that their name was Girl Band. That's some special level of neurotic offence archaeology.

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179412#Comment_118179412

He wasn't referring to 'females' when he mentioned a negligible minority though was he? One would have to be extremely disingenuous or incredibly stupid to claim that he was.

You can choose whichever of those is the benefit of the doubt option and i'll be happy to go with it for ya!

Fandymo

Fucking is spelt with a F.

In fairness, your question kind of deserved a rude response.

The poster you quoted spoke about appeasing a negligible minority, obviously meaning idiots who would be offended by the "misgendering" of a band.

If you think even 1% of women are offended by such a thing, you are deluded.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179421#Comment_118179421

I may have overstated with the 'art police' - this is a band we're talking about so obviously it would be more of a job for the craft police and less of a threat to the public imagination. But point taken. Of course they can change names. Don't band name changes usually indicate that a project has failed or that there is legal trouble with previous band members though?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179421#Comment_118179421

Change the name of your band all you like, they have every right to. People have every right to roll their eyes at obvious attention seeking and fake progressive bullshit though.

thefallingman

It's a womans world, look at that us singer Sophia Urista, took her cacks down and pee'd on a mans head live on stage at the weekend, google it. Kids in the audience, can you imagine if a man did that he would be in jail straight away, Jim Morrison was arrested for pretending to flash years ago and fled before he was jailed.

SteM

Sorry, they're just not woke enough for my liking. Shouldn't they be be sacking 2 of group to bring in a females making a 50/50 split of the genders too?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179449#Comment_118179449

You may not, but plenty of women would have an issue with an all male lineup in the traditionally male-dominated and often casually misogynistic heavy rock sphere having the audacity to call themselves Girl Band. Even Steve Albini (not a man inclined to bend to popular pressure) has been reflecting recently that some of the stuff like this he was responsible for was harmful.

I don’t know why the band chose Gilla, but it is an old Irish word meaning something like boyhood/youth, which sounds a far more plausible source than some obscure alleged slang term that somebody used one-time in 2003.

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179500#Comment_118179500

The "audacity"? FFS.

Round up the mob, light the torches, pass out the pitchforks and let's go after Alice Cooper.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179500#Comment_118179500

Plenty of women would have an issue? That's absolutely false.

What's your definition of plenty? I mean, at a guess, roughly what percentage of women do you think would have an issue with it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179518#Comment_118179518

Lol Alice Cooper. Wow your references are out of date.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179500#Comment_118179500

Where do you start with shite like this. The "audacity" of giving their band a name.

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179536#Comment_118179536

Oooh, good one.

Good to see you stand behind Girl Band's endorsement of patriarchal gender norms thou!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179539#Comment_118179539

There is indeed a long history of groups in the noise rock genre giving themselves controversial names, provocative album covers, fashions etc. Hence my reference to Steve Albini’s recent comments.

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179552#Comment_118179552

Controversial according to...your list?

spurious

Smart marketing methinks.

Unheard of to all over the papers.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179542#Comment_118179542

Look I’m just not lowering myself to debating rock music with someone who has to reach for Alice Cooper as a reference.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179562#Comment_118179562

You clearly don’t have the first clue about this subject.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179552#Comment_118179552

You are referencing someone who had bands called Rapeman and Run N**ger Run. Quite different to Girl Band. FFS, whilst whinging about someone bringing up Alice Cooper.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179598#Comment_118179598

Not whinging, laughing at them :)

An all-male Girl Band is pretty tame tbf, and I don’t think it sparked any big controversy—they aren’t an especially big group anyhow—but clearly they decided it’s not appropriate. No pitchforks involved. And their new name is more googleable anyhow, which is a consideration these days (an early problem for The National.)

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179584#Comment_118179584

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179576#Comment_118179576

We're not debating rock music though are we, but people in a band posturing to the slow creep of woke bolloxology.

And tbh buddy, your inability to back up any of the nonsense your posting makes it look like you don't have a clue what you're evening talking about. Apart from copy/pasting some vague idiotic talking points from Twitter.

To quote someone famous "You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything"

SteM

Albini's 60 only 13 years younger that Alice Cooper. Rapeman haven't released anything in over 30 years and you're talking about dated references. 🤣

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179635#Comment_118179635

He spoke about it only recently, and is an influential figure in the same genre. 13 years is a long time in pop music.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179607#Comment_118179607

It's ironic. Never seen a huge guy nicknamed Tiny or Titch? Or in modern music Fatboy Slim, is he body-shaming?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179634#Comment_118179634

Wah-wah a band I don’t listen to in a genre I know nothing about changed their name. Wah-wah woke.

poor snowflake

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179412#Comment_118179412

I think the truth of the matter is the band name was a joke that ran it’s course and the rest is to save face

DarkJager21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179567#Comment_118179567

Pretty stupid and shortsighted to be honest, it's more likely to give people a heads up to avoid your **** woke band than listen to you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179665#Comment_118179665

Why, is Titch changing his name?

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179576#Comment_118179576

That’s a ridiculous thing to say

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179667#Comment_118179667

Seen them live actually, down at Body & Soul. They were ok, nothing to write home about.

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179653#Comment_118179653

Look I’m just not lowering myself to debating anything with someone who considers Albini to be in pop music.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179687#Comment_118179687

yeah, so you don’t listen to them then

pappyodaniel

Was anyone actually upset by the name? I was never really a fan of the band but the name led me to believe they had a sense of humour (how wrong was I).

Unfortunately they have gone down the route of pleasing the SJW mob who don't understand irony.

Lankum changed their name from Lynched a few years ago but not to the same level of confusion from their fans. If they had one eye on touring the States you can understand they might have some issues with the name.

Gilla ain't much better, pretty sure that's Aussie slang for a vagina.

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179692#Comment_118179692

I have listened to them, and i've seen them live. Try again

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179690#Comment_118179690

I consider all popular music to be pop music, as distinct from say classical or avant garde.

Minorthreat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179576#Comment_118179576

Wow you have to be trolling.

antfin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179449#Comment_118179449

I didn't say I was offended. My original comment was querying whether it was females being referred to as a "negligible minority" as descibed by the original message that I was responding too or whether it was feminists or womens rights in general that was a negligible minority. I was seeking clarity but the response was to be told to use my brain, which I deemed to be a rude response to a request for clarification.

The Quintessence Model

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179552#Comment_118179552

'Girl band' - ohh, how provocative, how controversial...

ErnestBorgnine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179749#Comment_118179749

Ah, we've decided on "extremely disingenuous", good choice.

Ten of Swords

A band you don't care about/listen to has done something that doesnt affect you in any way

The end is nigh...