Music and Gender
This is honestly a hard topic to talk about honestly, but after a couple minutes of thinking about it, I came to the point that in the type of music that I listen, more and more women’s start to sing. My favorite type of music is rap, and personally when I am thinking about rappers, I am first thinking about guys. Not because there is sexism or whatever in the rap game but because the ones who created it and were singing it for so many decades are males. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, a lot of women started to rap and became famous, the one that come to my mind are Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Rihanna. A song that I really listened a lot during my childhood was “What’s my name” from Rihanna, I was listening to it every time in the car but also on my MP3. I loved that song, it was one of my favorite ones and even now I am still listening to it in the bus when we are travelling with the soccer team or when I am taking the plane. I liked it from the first time I listened to it because the mix between her voice and the voice of Drake was a perfect mix.
Like I said it in my last blog, I really like to listen to French rap because it is my first language, and even within the French rappers most of them are guys, but since a couple of years, they are some girls that start to become really popular and that have the same amount of people that listen to their music than to the “guys rappers”. One of them is called Aya Nakamura, and she did not only become famous in France, but she also became popular all around the world. One of my personal experiences and that really shocked me was when we travelled with the guys this year for our first pre-season game, one of my teammates put on the speaker a music of her which is called “Baby” and a lot of guys knew it and tried to sing it. I was really impressed by that because that means that she is worldwide known. Over the summer, she also did a French rap Tv show with two other French rappers, you can find it on Netflix. I feel that with the time, more and more women’s will appear in the rap and make some hits.
Nico your blog was awesome to read and kept me engaged the entire time. You and I share a lot of the same likes for certain songs with Rihanna and Nicki Minaj which made it even easier for me to read. You seem like a very well-spoken and smart individual, keep up the good work
ReplyDeleteHey Nico, you chose some really great, strong female to write about. And you did an awesome job, Cause it truly kept me interested the whole time. When Females rap to me it’s always such an amazing things because in HipHop majority of Men are the Rappers. We do have a hand full of females in the rap game now and it’s nothing like the female MCs from back in the day.
ReplyDeleteHi Nico! I really enjoyed both of the songs you chose. I agree with you that female rappers are becoming more popular, and we will only see more of them in the industry in the future. I knew they were becoming much more frequent in the U.S., but I didn't know it was happening around the world! Aya Nakamura has such a beautiful voice, and French is such a beautiful language; she definitely deserves the world-wide fame. I think it's so important that women are finding their voices in this genre, which is so centered around self-expression.
ReplyDeleteHello Nico! Yes, female rappers really are becoming more popular now than they were 'back in the day.' I think that's so cool that now, in France, female rappers are starting to break out as well. Women belong in all spaces and all genres, and it's so nice to see them going against the norm and branching out. French is such a beautiful language, so I look forward to you sharing more French artists!
ReplyDeleteI also love the combination of a female and male artist like "What's my name" with Rihanna and Drake. As you said, it's a perfect mix of singing and some rap, which complement each other perfectly. Interesting to hear some french music, which I never really listen to. Keep up the good work Nico!
ReplyDeleteNico! I also do like "What's My Name" by Rihanna. I had never thought of rap in this perspective. I definitely can see where you would say that her and Drake's voices aligned just perfectly. I also had never heard of Aya Nakamura, so i enjoyed being able to listen to her music.
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