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Originally posted by Les
I see how the comment seems condescending. I don't really think it was meant that way. As Carne said, he may simply have been answering an extremely familiar question for the 8593rd time and just didn't weigh his words. Personally, if it means anything particularly meaningful at all, I think the whole "femaleness" comment does relate to attitude and it especially relates to a willingness to be a little more adventurous or experimental within Fleetwood Mac.
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I remember Kate Bush talking about the "female side" of her music in 1989 & how it came to the fore on the "Sensual World" album -- I assume she was referring to thematic (the Molly Bloom soliloquy of the title track) as well as musical (the incorporation of the Trio Bulgarka into several tracks creating a banshee-like sound or the use of pentatonic & other eastern modes of scale-building) concerns. I think Kate was also referring to a longstanding -- & perfectly valid -- distinction between "male" & "female" traits in rock music: the heavy distortion & volume & kicking tempi of the former, & the reflective, subdued, more lyrical essence of the latter. It may strike some of us as unfairly or even inaccurately locked into unnecessary or outmoded gender categories, but it's a distinction that has been made for decades. You can hear it in terms like "cock rock" & all the adjectives used to describe the Lillith Fair roster of performers.
I think Lindsey refers to "male" & "female" characteristics of music in this way. I seem to remember his saying that, since Christine & Stevie generally wrote ballads -- the more languid, introspective, lyrical pieces -- it sort of fell to him to provide the balls-to-the-walls, wailing lead guitar sort of songs that every rock band needs to provide, at least periodically.