[Cap10Planet]

Originally posted by feuxtography

Because we really haven't had an actual interesting male artist since Michael Jackson.

The rest are boring. Are we supposed to make threads about Bruno Mars's new top hat?

What a pile of horse manure.

[XIAN]

they all ugly

[MusicLoverDude]

Because most stan for the pop girls. I'm a fan of JT though and I stan for Austin Mahone

[Auris]

Originally posted by Su-Barbie-A

Basically, and don't bring Adam Lambert into this because he takes it too far. Male artists are not that interesting to talk about unless they have great numbers at the charts but that's about it.

Kanye West, Bruno Mars, The Beatles, Calvin Harris, Eminem, Will.i.am, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, and Jay-Z are all very popular on ATRL. I see them talked about quite often from a significant amount of members.

[Ina Garten]

Originally posted by TeamRHI

Um. Kanye West is the exact opposite of everything you just said. He's also a male.

how is Kanye the opposite of "no-nothing/bland oatmeal" when his latest era has had no single, no video, no album cover, no performance, no nothing? Yeezus isn't even oatmeal; it's an empty bowl

I kid, of course. i was merely generalizing. i'd definitely consider Kanye one of many exceptions

[Auris]

Originally posted by Su-Barbie-A

His ego is a throw off, he is like the male Azealia Banks except that he is successful.

Don't forget has musical and production talent.

[Scene.]

They're all boring.

[Hooligan]

I suppose I'm an anomaly, I like more male artists than female.

[iamstrong]

Originally posted by Pagan Poetry

The generalizations. People don't hate artists based on their gender.

Search up past threads (e.g. iTunes, Billboard Hot 100 archives) and you'll know what I mean

[Auris]

Originally posted by Hooligan

I suppose I'm an anomaly, I like more male artists than female.

We are not alone

[Arking]

Sweetheart, I'm pretty sure no one here actually hates male artists.



If you're talking about Robin Thicke, that date rape anthem deserves all the backlash it's gotten from this site and more. The fact it's overplayed only makes it worse.

Tell me then, what about male artists that is worthy of our attention? The presentation of masculinity, why sexually appealing is dreadfully boring in a pop music sense. Tacky, loverboy misogyny can only get a boy so far.

To be honest, the only male artist whose music I actually enjoy and find to be one of the greatest outliers of this obsession with the fantasy of masculinity is Drake - and even then it's not as if he's so wildly outside the norm. His brand is just a more 'sensitive' approach to hip hop that is so alien to the industry that everyone is so quick to call him "soft" or a "homo" or otherwise bash him just because he's not performing this draconian masculine ideal.

And as long as western male artists insist on performing this exhausted ideal in fear of losing their precious manhood, they will be nothing more than footnotes in the lexicon of pop music where only the daring and expressive (women) are worthy of our attention.

[Auris]

Originally posted by iamstrong

Search up past threads (e.g. iTunes, Billboard Hot 100 archives) and you'll know what I mean

You can't use M&RL and Robin Thicke as examples... Robin's new album and M&RL's existences have been panned by everyone from Here 2 China.

[atrlster]

Originally posted by iamstrong

I constantly see ATRLers put down a song just because it's by a male artist, and most people on the site criticize their music and always praising the females, even if the type of music they release is similar to one another.

What is the reason for this? Explain yourselves gurls

The worst part of it is all those people dissing "generic" male dance pop while stanning like crazy for even more generic female dance pop

[Alejandrо]

I'm not here for generalizations though a lot of male artists are awesome, creative, fun and everything but a lot of females have it in them too, so from there it's a matter of taste.

[iamstrong]

Originally posted by XIAN

they all ugly

Sexual Orientation
Gay

You sure about that sis?

[Cap10Planet]

A lot of gays just relate to females more and are not opened to males. I actually think a lot of it stems from self-hate, too. They idolize females, wanna dress like them and want to be like them.

[Auris]

Originally posted by atrlster

The worst part of it is all those people dissing "generic" male dance pop while stanning like crazy for even more generic female dance pop

So true. Not trying to be sexist here, but mainstream female artists (Katy, Gaga, Carly Rae) seem to be far more generic than mainstream males (Bruno, Kanye, Gotye) yet the Monsters criticize everyone for being generic. Tbh, "Applause" is one of the most generic dance songs I've ever heard. "Gorilla" is one of the most unique pop songs I've heard in the past few years. But ATRL'ers will have their own opinions.

[AMIT]

Originally posted by iamstrong

You should check out the iTunes thread from the past. As soon as Macklemore/Ryan Lewis and Robin Thicke started to slay people were seething.

That's mostly because their faves don't have any songs that smashed that hard, it's not solely because they're males.
Many members like those songs/artists.
But I feel you, idk they are just boring to stan for for the most part.

[cats&fashion]

It's not that we hate male artists, I mean, I'm sure we've all used some of them right?
We just STAN hard for female artists because to some extent, we all live vicariously through them

[iamstrong]

Originally posted by atrlster

The worst part of it is all those people dissing "generic" male dance pop while stanning like crazy for even more generic female dance pop

The girls dissing acts such as Maroon 5, Usher etc. for making generic dance pop when their faves are using the same producer, making the same music