A few days ago, I came across this post on instagram…
Let’s use our critical lens…
Can you pick up on a pattern
here? Because even spotify does when they explicitly say, “Recognize these
guys?” So if you’ve haven’t picked up on the gendered language, let me explain:
there are no feminine representations featured here as the main artist. 2015’s
most played track? Major Lazer’s “Lean On.” No surprise that once again
that the credit goes to men. Yes, of course we have MØ and Kimbra with
vocal features, but they’re not the name on the song.
So what does this pattern have to reflect? Do men tend to
make the songs we don’t want to listen to and women tend make songs we don’t
want to listen to? Not the case at all. Is Spotify a sexist app that skews our
listening habits? Unlikely. What I can gather from this data, is that
representation in music continues to lean a certain masculine way.
Also, of interest to note:
https://news.spotify.com/us/2015/12/01/drake-is-the-worlds-most-streamed-artist-on-spotify-for-2015/
So following this link, the first category: Most Streamed
Artist of 2015. The second? Most streamed women in music (Rihanna.) I
realize that, they make an effort for feminine representation by giving women
their own category, but the point I’m trying to make is that we shouldn’t need
that category. The fact is that this stems from a larger cultural issue that
systematically effects women in music.
Let’s support, and listen to, women in music! Shall
we?
originally posted on 11 dec 15 at 9pm
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