Womn n rck
It’s a Man’s World? INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN AND POPULAR MUSIC
BEYONCÉ 🐝🍋
“I was served lemons, but I made lemonade”
FANNY First all female
rock band signed to a major label to
release a full length album -
1970
PATSY CLINE First female
country star to headline her own
concert tours (1960s)
MC LYTE First solo female MC to release a
full length album - 1988
GRAMMY STATISTICS
u A total of 90.7% of nominees between 2012 and 2017 were male
u That means just 9.3% of the nominees were women!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Neil Portnow (On the Grammys):
“It has to begin with…women who have the creativity in their hearts and souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers,
producers, and want to be part of the industry on the executive level…[They need] to step up
because I think they would be welcome.”
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAR OF THE BOOTY…2014
TAYLOR SWIFT IGGY AND JLO
“ANACONDA”
“This dude named Michael used to ride motorcycles
Dick bigger than a tower, I ain't talking about Eiffel's”