Music & Feminism

LAst week in my American Popular Music class, we were approaching the 90's and discussing female singers/songwritters. Two names came out "Joni Mitchell" and "Alanis Morriset."
During the 60's and forward, Joni Mitchell attained so much credibility for her songs, that she is one of the only female singer/song writters that was compared to other male singer/song writtters without playing on her feminity. Mitchell was compared and treated as another one of the great singer/song writters without taking her feminity into it, becuase she was so high regarded. Usually women's feminity always plays when they are compared to men. For me it is very interesting becuase does that mean that she is was so good that she was up to men standards, or just that at that time it didn't matter? Alanis Morriset on the other handm wrote "Thank you" during the 90's and was widely criticized for it. The song, it includes curse words like "Fuck" and she sings in an angry tone becuase she was dumped and replaced so quickly. She was expressing her emotions at the time. However, you can see the sexism int he industry and from regular women and men who listened to the song and criticized her becuase they thought she hated men, and that it was unladylike to talk about intimacy so explicitly and say curse words so int he open. She was a strong woman speaking her mind.