Sexist frontmen

[Tero]

It's a classic! I heard it live 2002

[Tero]

Zappa collects underpants for a quilt. It was made. Colorado quilter made it out of the unwashed panties.

[DRSB]

They all had groupies, you can't blame them for being unable to fend them off.

[Tero]

That would be sexy sidewomen. One pair made penis casts of many heroes:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cynthia-plaster-caster

[Brian Peacock]

Robert Plant.



Have you actually listened to his lyrics?

[DRSB]

Pretty clear message: may white male supremacy reign!

With songs we praise a happy landing
On yet another virgin shore
Escape the old world
Embrace the new world
Out here the immigrant takes all

Across the plains and over mountains
Put plight to all who came before
They’re barely human
It’s time to move them
To let them kneel before the sword

Uneducate the noble savage
The great white father’s word is law
Subjugate them
To liberate them
The poison pen, the bloody sword

Robert Plant
New World

[Hermit]

With songs we praise a happy landing
On yet another virgin shore
Escape the old world
Embrace the new world
Out here the immigrant takes all

Across the plains and over mountains
Put plight to all who came before
They’re barely human
It’s time to move them
To let them kneel before the sword

Uneducate the noble savage
The great white father’s word is law
Subjugate them
To liberate them
The poison pen, the bloody sword

Robert Plant
New World

If you detect sexism in this song, you have misread it in a most spectacular way.

"New World" is a comment on a recent history of conquest and submission. - Robert Plant

[DRSB]

May be. White male supremacy is always sexist.
Anyway, lyrics are about a lyrical hero, not about the singer. In literature you do not equate the lyrical hero of a poem to the poet.
The private life of a person says more about who they are. Look at what they do, not at what they say or sing.

[Hermit]

The private life of a person says more about who they are. Look at what they do, not at what they say or sing.

Oh in that case I apologise for misunderstanding you. I was under the obviously mistaken impression that you cited the song's lyrics as an example of sexism.

[DRSB]

Nope, this would be Socialist Realism.

[Brian Peacock]

Cuba!

[Tero]

ELP! Greg Lake lyrics: he had ladies by the score! waiting by the door! He only had to slay the...to get the score!

[DRSB]

I still think you cannot judge a singer by his lyrics anymore than you can judge an actor by his roles. You don't want to send Nick Cave behind bars for the Murder Ballads!

[Tero]

But what if they wear a codpiece on stage? is it only to go with the lyrics?

[DRSB]

On stage they are impersonating some stage persona.