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i’m just going to go ahead and assume that if you are a man not understanding why one would call the bolt cutters f*ntano review misogynist it’s because you haven’t experienced misogynistic microaggressions and don’t understand how frustrating it is to hear them regurgitated
in a sea of adjectives to describe an emotionally poignant, venomous, vengeful album, he chose “resentful, bitter, high strung.” and that was just in the first 1 minute of the video. cheap tropes that lack awareness.
he then goes on to hint that fiona’s experimental use of piano and percussion was “rickety” and HEAVILY implies that she’s copying tom waits, a MALE artist. lest we forget that women can have their own brand of artistry within experimental sound.
“lack of a lyrical filter”- a very comical way to try to explain not wanting to hear a woman sing about rape because it’s uncomfortable for you.
he uses the following adjectives to describe female work:
• “overindulgent”
• “grating”
• “tragic”
• “bitter”
• a “gimmick”
• “droning”
he calls a break in one track “an excuse to bow out.”
loaded. these are words often used to describe and reduce women to tropes.
• “overindulgent”
• “grating”
• “tragic”
• “bitter”
• a “gimmick”
• “droning”
he calls a break in one track “an excuse to bow out.”
loaded. these are words often used to describe and reduce women to tropes.
he reduces a highly emotional and important feminist track to a “blurb.” he says tracks “lack focus,” as if fiona apple is not disciplined enough to make a record even though she has has refined genius that spans an entire career, and is, as he makes it a point to remind, over 40
of course, one of his favorite tracks is I Want You To Love Me, you know, the one about sex and desire, and he calls her a “wanting machine, an animal“ acting on “purely primal” desire... but DON’T WORRY! She “RATIONALIZED” those lyrics with “MORE FLOWERY LANGUAGE” ... hmmm!!!
so women have to justify their sexuality with love, femininity, softness? yet another societally enforced boundary playing its way into the music industry, highlighted in this review.
after that, he compares fiona to yet another male artist, nick cave, because god forbid we stay on topic or name one woman that ever existed. i felt like billy eichner. just name ONE WOMAN.
of course, he did not find the track about “not letting men dampen your fire” to be “specific” or “to the point” enough. at this point you’d think he’d notice a pattern in his review, but no, he did not.
he ends the review with yet another false dichotomy about how women can make records: it needed to be MORE “coherent” or TOTALLY out there experimental. because, you know, women exist in extremes and it’s uncomfortable to hear unique art that doesn’t fit into one or the other.
LASTLY, he ends by, and I’m not kidding, wishing the record were “more groomed.” are you FUCKING kidding me?
if you think anyone is calling this review sexist because it wasn’t a perfect ten, you’re dead wrong. it’s because this review was SEXIST. disgustingly, repulsively, enraging degrees of SEXIST. i cannot believe that i wasted 8.5 minutes of my life on it just for this thread.
