CocoRosie girlie again
Since the ’60s, it seems that the vocal qualities of women rock and roll artists have lost their rough masculine edge, becoming progressively more feminine. The Age of Aquarius witnessed the rise of the rough growl of Janis Joplin and the melodious bellow of Nico. Joplin’s emotive roughness was followed by ’70s punk and ’80s New Wave, with increasingly-flamboyant-yet-still-masculine images of women like Souxsie and the Banshees and Talking Heads. Eighties pop bands such as the Go-Gos and Blondie first merged a characteristically feminine sound with a resolutely female perspective,...
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