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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Music streams hit nearly 5 trillion in 2024. Women pop performers lead charge in U.S.
By MARIA SHERMAN NEW YORK©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Peter Neil
and together they made about $26.84.
spotify and others are thieves,
starpunk
This is no indication that these 'artists' are any good. Either they're gyrating lip-synching sex robots or they're whining prissy-miss diva pissy-pants crybabies screeching, 'You screwed me over this, you screwed me over that! Eee! Eee! Eeeeeeee-yeeee! Eee! Eee! Eeeeeeee-yeeee! Eee! Eee! Eeeeeeee-yeeee!' ... ad infinitum.
I've seen (and met) some good female musicians. I've seen + met the J-punk lady trio Shonen Knife 5 times, I've seen Chrissy Hyndes, Debbie Harry, Exene Cervenka, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson (B-52s), L7, Joan Jett and more. And last year I saw the sister duo Heart for the second time.
All these females stars and others I listed have some things that these 'pop tarts' don't - smarts, originality, creativity, strong wills, and TALENT. And they have the mileage records to prove it.
MilesTeg
I've listened to about half those songs and none of them do anything for me. Live shows are now about twerking, exposed butts, and auto-tune.
Good list you made but I'd exclude Shonen Knife and Joan Jett. Just my honest opinion.
bass4funk
I agree, and with the exception of Chrissy Hynde, Deborah Harry, Wendy & Lisa from Prince, Janet Jackson, Donna Summer, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson of the B-52s, the Heart sisters, Kate Bush, Björk, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston and Anita Baker, the other pop crap of today is just not for me, it is just overly nauseating.
starpunk
It's been nearly 30 years already since the Spice Girls stunk up the world, and where are they now? I remember in my college newspaper somebody asked this 'indy' band in an interview who their 'favorite Spice Girl' was. They said, 'Ringo!'.
George Harrison himself said that the best you could say about them was that you could always watch their videos with the sound turned....down.
Britney Spears put out a self-embarrassing expose book last year that only amplified how dumb we all know she is. Music? What's that? Video Really Did Kill the Radio Star, didn't it?
Did you know that Lady Gaga took her name from that 1984 Queen song 'Radio Gaga' which pans radio crap, yet that's the exact type of 'music' she makes! Radio goo-goo, radio nyah-nyah. Oh, and most of her videos are vulgar and disgusting too.
Videos are a wonderful thing. Every musical act now needs to do them so audiences can see and hear what they're all about. Some bands like say Duran Duran are masters at marrying sound and vision, like David Bowie himself foretold during the 70s.
Where are Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff, Demi Levato, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, et al. and where are they now? Tah-rashhh-CANNN!!!!
The 'sexuality' thing can only go for so many years and if they don't have anything to say musically or otherwise, they're history. Best left forgotten.
The GoGos and definitely the Bangles are QTs but they never pushed that angle. I've seen very young girls and t(w)een girls @ shows by Joan Jett, Heart, Shonen Knife and other 'chick' rockers and that's a good thing. They are seeing women performers, not lip-synching posers. And the same goes for Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Candy Dulfer, Alison Krause (she made two albums with Robert Plant), the violin prodigy Lindsay Sterling (who will always be in demand somewhere). That's the stuff that counts in the long run.
To me it's the same way with the men performers. Either you got it in you, or you don't.