four_five_one
Infinition
This is condescending in the extreme. Which "girls" are these? I'm sorry, but to me this sounds like another excuse to essentialize women as the less "machinic", less "rational", more "emotional", and less "intellectual" subspecies.
I agree, I think feminine actually just stands in here for enjoyable. It's music that the majority would want to move to & sing along to, opposed to music to overtly technical music, based more upon the appreciation of the producer's programming skills and the music's "weight".
'Ardcore could be described as pretty feminine, if one were to assess it by the criteria Reynolds provides (overt melody, "tunefulness", female vocals, poppy etc), but it's better described as a properly post-gender music, a state brought about by the desexualising effects of E.
In any case, this is may only be due to a statistical inevitability, but far more women are dancing to dubstep, and d'n'b, now that most traces of so-called feminine pressure have been extirpated. Kode 9 had something to say about this in his recent Wire interview:
"...And I suppose I can see where you’re getting at, but I think it tends to lead to huge generalisations, I’m thinking particularly of writers like Simon Reynolds… that kind of binary opposition, while I know and kind of agree where it’s coming from, and how it’s applied… it’s using that gender binary and superimposing it on top of what is a much complicated field, because women from different races and different classes really have very different musical preferences. So it’s very difficult to generalise. I’d prefer to think of it in terms of energy levels, and rhythm."
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