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Bollox, is it.
This is not a shocking revelation. We live in a patriarchal society, so naturally its music industry is sexist.
I sort of agree with your post, but I don't think businesses always make the best decisions, even regarding what is profitable....they are still run by humans, who can have limited views on how things should be done.
Yet breast cancer gets far more attention than prostate cancer. At least where I live. My brother says just the opposite that you're saying.This is not a shocking revelation. We live in a patriarchal society, so naturally its music industry is sexist.
I agree with this.but if they all have the same perspective, and make the same mistakes then it wouldn't affect their competitiveness with their rivals.
I think there is less demand for female musicians, but maybe there is more demand than is being catered for.
Let's hear from a woman:Yet breast cancer gets far more attention than prostate cancer. At least where I live. My brother says just the opposite that you're saying.
Firstly, [women have] laid some pretty great groundwork for you, talking about our diseased breasts in public for the last 80 years. And consider the statistics; if you want airtime, you can have it. 74% of journalists are men. 90% of televised sport focuses on men. Women have been trying, and failing, to share some of that stage for years. So speak up boys. The world will listen; it always does, to you.
but if they all have the same perspective, and make the same mistakes then it wouldn't affect their competitiveness with their rivals.
I think there is less demand for female musicians, but maybe there is more demand than is being catered for.
I agree with this.
Yet breast cancer gets far more attention than prostate cancer. At least where I live. My brother says just the opposite that you're saying.
The music industry simply grabs whatever sells with both hands and steers shy of what stays on the shelves.
To whatever degree the music industry is sexist is entirely customer driven.
A very large percentage of the consumers of music make their purchases based on what is put in front of them.
Perhaps one has nothing to do with the other I find it compelling that Sinead makes music on HER terms, not her record labels.
Yes, business executives often do stupid things and the most successful business in an industry at some given point isn't necessarily the best run, etc business. Success in business involves a lot more happenstance and, well, less than honest means than most people realize.I sort of agree with your post, but I don't think businesses always make the best decisions, even regarding what is profitable....they are still run by humans, who can have limited views on how things should be done.
The chances that stuff that would sell in volume is deliberately withheld from consumers are about what, would you think?
I would suspect that if Sinead is making herself niche, as opposed to mass, marketable that those things are definitely linked.
Are you of the opinion there are no musicians worthy of a record contract and associated promotion that aren't already signed?
Name one musician that says they make unoriginal music in order to appeal to a mass audience.