Decided to look at a bunch of music videos and blogs because I was told I would find that women were obscured and men were very feminine. They seemed pretty even handed in the end though...
Screw Rock & Roll – The Girl All the Boys Wanna Dance With
- About Paramore, being female-fronted.
- “Which is an accusation, that, like a lot of Hopper's statements is sort of interesting and sort of true, but also way too shrill and not as meaningful as she thinks it is. I mean, yeah, there are some (many?) pretty misogynistic emo tracks out there, but let's face it: the genre, being what it is, has a whole lot of break-up songs in it, a lot of them rather angry. It's a bit much to criticize artists doing break-up tracks for not being nicer about their exes. No one says "Hit 'Em Up Style" is misandrist.”
- Female-fronted emo band named…
Paramore Blog – Band members blogging
Tickle Me Emo – Mad TV sketch
Fall Out Boy – Sugar We’re Going Down off of Take This To Your Grave (while still on Fueled by Ramen)
- Girl is actually a nice character. Can’t see her much.
Will focus on artists on Fueled By Ramen – generally thought to be the emo label. Includes Pete Wentz’s Decaydance Records, which is a “vanity label,” meaning it’s a little brother label under Fueled By Ramen.
FOB – Saturday
- Mostly men moshing around, but do see some females in the crowd. Queen of Hearts is the death card in the storyline.
FOB – Grand Theft Autumn
Girl in it, can see her face. Somewhat sexual, she dresses, leaves the house and makes out with the guy before just walking away.
All American Rejects – Swing, Swing
Guy and girl seem in a good relationship, they fight and she breaks it off. Doesn’t seem as bad as I was expecting. Only notice that it seems like the men are emotional and the girls are fairly cold. Perhaps it’s different in later work, or perhaps I’m simply used to female depictions.
Looked at All American Rejects next big hit “Dirty Little Secret.” A song about hiding a relationship with someone. The video didn’t actually feature anyone but the band bc it was all postcards from the Post Secret Project where ppl wrote their secrets on postcards. Women did seem to be posting “I don’t really love him” and men “I love her but I can’t say,” but I think I’m stretching.
FOB’s Dance Dance came out on the 2nd album
- Only the hot girls seem to be sexual objects. There are nerdy girls, dressed similar and acting similar to the boys that are portrayed favorably.
FOB Thnks fr th Mmrs
- Has only one woman who is solely for sexual purposes and then is a backstabber.
P@TD’s Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking her Clothes Off is like a romance. Sad but the girl is faithful. In I Write Sins Not Tragedies () the woman leaves the alter and is caught making out with someone else. This seems to be the only video that matches the storylines in these songs.
Just to look into women, here’s Paramore’s Misery Business. The woman is basically portrayed as a bitch but not all the women.
Maybe the video depictions are not the place to look. Perhaps it is more important the gender issues in the bands themselves – the make up, the lyrics, the emotions. If I compared the way male and female fronts act maybe I can see that the women are acting more male and men are acting more female?
Looking at the lyrics could lead me into a totally different direction, but those are seemingly more about emotion and break ups and are less favorable toward women, and yet women are fans.
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