Bono: 'Music has gotten very girly'

[downnola]

People in charge of hip hop want mumble rap. Why even bother understanding anything that comes out of their mouth anymore? Meanwhile people that actually have bars remain underground.

I had to pull up a Rakim track to regain my sanity after listening to that abomination.



90's East Coast hip hop is greatly missed.

[PACOX]

Not girly whatsoever. The only thing more manly is the explicit version.

I agree but it seems like Bono is looking for role models too. I bump DMX but the man is a basehead.

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Pop music just sucks

I love that they included The Roots. I imagine some kid looking up every in the video and accidentally hearing the group for the first time.

[De Lupe]

Music has a gender? This is news to me.

Music is music. It is neither more nor less "girly" than it was 1000 years ago.

Listen to what you like and ignore people who say otherwise. Judge songs by their own, individual qualities and not by some broad genre paintbrush. My playlist has Disney, Zac Brown, and misc Youtube artists all perfectly blended together because they all sound good.

[Deleted]

I just want people to start playing instruments again instead of pushing buttons. I think it's really sad.

Ya lol and while we're at it lets go back to using the steam engine to do most of our stuff as well such as transport and the like.


xd



Also I don't know who Bono is but I guess this guy hasn't heard of EDM music or anything similar to it. Music hasn't gotten girly, it's become completely abstract in the form of "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M FUCKING LISTENING TO REEEEEEE".

I mean, cmon.

[Jimusmc]

I just want people to start playing instruments again instead of pushing buttons. I think it's really sad.

Yep.. if you arent playing instruments i dont even call it music.

[Deleted]

Yep.. if you arent playing instruments i dont even call it music.

We should make a comeback for this sort of stuff.

Slam kitchen drawers for the drum and snares.

Masturbate furiously for the bass.

Screech artistically for the DROP.

Platinum here I come!

[JohnBrown1917]

Then how can you tell me I’m wrong that music like that isn’t made anymore and to check “the underground”. So you don’t have a clue and just make assumptions about music. You like EDM for sure.
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No, I do like EDM.

You mentioned way more bands in your original post, now your salty that I don't know about the 2 you listed in your last post?
And it was in response to you thinking all music is made in a lab to appeal to the masses, not about the bands you like.

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theyre not the cream of the crop physically, this causes stress.
i mean look at them, they are scrub bucks...i'd be angry too

I, too, love blabbing nonsense.

[Alphatorg]

Bono complaining about "girly" music. That's amazing.

[Mekkle]

Didn't know music had a gender now. TheMoreYouKnow.

[Cosmic Janitor]

I actually do like some Metal but overall the scene isn't really my cuppa plus it seemingly aggrivates my tinitus

Lol, people always say that about metal, frankly my ears took probably more damage in shitty bars and discos playing the lattest electro and gangst0r gangbanger shit than on any metal concernt I've been to.

[Zelk]

Still no idea what girly music is

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

Still no idea what girly music is

mumford and sons

and any band that has 9 fuckin members and they all roll their jeans up like there is about to be a flood. but theres never a flood

[Zelk]

mumford and sons

and any band that has 9 fuckin members and they all roll their jeans up like there is about to be a flood. but theres never a flood

so girly just means bland mass marketed folk music? Didin't hear much of that this year to be honest.

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

so girly just means bland mass marketed folk music? Didin't hear much of that this year to be honest.

you're lucky. apparently everyone in my city loves it...

[Phuongvi]

Everytime I hear Bono's name, I think about the South Park episode

[Fencers]

I saw Power Trip not that long ago. Plenty of extremely angry white dudes.

[Shakadam]

I have no need to listen to some emo angst "rock" music about how hard life is to feel manly.

I'll quite happily continue listening to upbeat electronic music about partying and enjoying life, thank you very much.

[Deleted]

I'd hardly call Bono "Manly" to begin with.

[Cynical Person]

People focus too much on Genres

[Bigbazz]

Music has a gender? This is news to me.

Music is music. It is neither more nor less "girly" than it was 1000 years ago.

Listen to what you like and ignore people who say otherwise. Judge songs by their own, individual qualities and not by some broad genre paintbrush. My playlist has Disney, Zac Brown, and misc Youtube artists all perfectly blended together because they all sound good.

I think you have to be purposely ignorant to not understand the context, calling something "girly" has been a widely used descriptive term in global popular culture for the last 100 years, deeply ingrained stereotypes that have a solid grounding in reality. Things such as certain colours, things that are not extreme in nature, things that are aimed at or typically appreciated by females, on average.

So with that in mind lets look at a "girly" band or song.



This is a rock song with guitars and drums, it's marketted and created primarily for women. As a musician who has to play this song in live venues on a regular basis I can tell you that the absolute majority of people singing along, enjoying or dancing to this song are women. Infact most of our set is catered to women and we get comments from women almost exclusively about how they enjoyed the band, because we play girly music.. We play girly music with the intention of getting girls (typically aged 18-35) dancing and having a good time, as apposed to other bands who may play music that caters more to men (and sometimes men of a certain age group)

Listen to the lyrics of the song, the structure and overall theme... This is by and large a pop song being disguised as a rock song, it's a girly rock song. That's not to say that all girls like this kind of music, that guys will dislike it, or that heavier/aggressive or more complex/ambitious music is not for women but if you look at a statistic average in the real world it's extremely easy make the correlation of music being girly.

U2 is girly music too though, since the demographic is mostly women from age 40-60.