1/20/2023 0 Comments Kate bush the other sides![]() ![]() And Courtney Love reclaimed the bad-girl imagery of witch and shrew - not to mention “victim” - with a vengeance. (Kim Deal’s “Divine Hammer” is another story, whether you think it’s about finding a greater purpose or a greater lover, or those are one and the same.) Helium’s Mary Timony ventured into those most dude-centric of genres, prog and medieval fantasy. Sex talk wasn’t just not taboo, it also wasn’t veiled in the lyrics of PJ Harvey and Phair. Whether it was Riot Grrrls forcing third-wave feminism to the front Fiona Apple letting it be known that teenagers have more to talk about than being rubbed like a genie in a bottle or Liz Phair - posturing as “6-feet-1 instead of 5-feet-2” - standing tall in a scene of pretentious guys, the women of ’90s alt-rock claimed alpha dominance. When male-dominated grunge kicked ’80s hair metal to the curb in the early 1990s, it also opened a door for women to finally play a different role in the music industry. ![]()
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