Do guys listen to female singers?

[Wesley]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

That's cool, man - the question just read a bit weird to me; likewise, it wasn't my intent to come off sounding aggressive. Tone doesn't always translate well online - I need to use more smileys.

FWIW, I'd say your guy friends are missing out on a lot of ass-kickingly great bands.

The Corrs are good; if you like them you'd probably really like The Cranberries. Enya is always great (as is her family band, Clannad).

Some more good female singers/bands in my collection I'd put forward who are in the heavier/alt/not pop category:
Jack Off Jill (who later spun off into Scarling)
Tura Santana and Manhole, who were both earlier bands of the vocalist for My Ruin
Kittie
Straight Line Stitch
Porcelain and the Tramps
Ego Likeness
Infected Rain
Animal Alpha
B*tch Alert
Betty Blowtorch
Madder Mortem
Switchblade Symphony
The Horrorpops
Zombie Girl
Lacuna Coil
Stolen Babies

Walls of Jericho, Exilia, iwrestledabearonce, Cadaveria and The Agonist are also very heavy, though I don't favor them personally. There's Emilie Autumn, Tribe 8, The Lunachicks, Le Tigre, Ayria, Halestorm, Flyleaf, The Butcher Babies, In this Moment, Huntress, K's Choice, The Dresden Dolls, The Sneaker Pimps...

And Gin Wigmore is absolutely fantastic.

I... listen to a lot of female artists, in case that wasn't abundantly clear by this stage.

I've heard of the Cranberries and I like a few of their songs.

[Prowler]

I listen to some. And they're all Japanese or Korean.

[PangolinFeets]

My boyfriend doesn't listen to many bands with female singers, then he was a drummer for this band for a while.

This girl got pipes.

http://youtu.be/hBwweYOUDGc

[Slade]

Yeah, I like a few female singers. Carrie Underwood, I used to jam the sh*t out of the Spice Girls back in the day, Amy Lee is good. The girl from Lady Antebelum. I don't know her name.

There are female artists I can't stand as well. Taylor Swift, Gwen Stefani, Niki Minaj...

[Wesley]

I kinda like Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Kylie Minogue, Pink, Joan Jett, Anatacia and Natasha Bedingfield.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Why wouldn't they? Good music is good music.

That's exactly what I say.

Originally Posted by Leo656

All that said, like every other kind of music I like, I'm still a sucker for p*ssy sh*t sometimes. Like, I love all of Madonna's 80s stuff, especially "Cherish"; That's my jaaaaaaaam. I actually own "The Immaculate Collection". And I like the Go-Gos and Belinda Carlisle, especially "Heaven Is A Place On Earth".

I've also got some Madonna songs on my MP3 player even though I'm not that big a fan of hers. I also enjoy Sarah McLachlan. I remember waking up one morning and her song "Possession" was playing on the radio and I was just drawn in by hr voice. The same with "Mouth" by Merril Bainbridge when I just woke up in the middle of the night once.

By the way, did you know that Andrew W.K. is a Barbara Streisand fan? I know this isn't music-related, but he's a Brony as well.

Originally Posted by Leo656

There's a lot of 'em, I'unno. Why wouldn't guys listen to chicks sing? Chicks listen to guys sing. I think maybe some guys don't wanna be caught singing along with a chick song, but that's some silly insecure sh*t anyways. I will karaoke the f*ck out of "Cherish" like a boss, son, I ain't scared.

I personally don't like to hear dudes sing songs originally sung by women for some reason. It doesn't help that my friend always has to sing along with some song that's playing on TV in a commercial or whatever. He even does that with musical guests on Saturday Night Live.

Originally Posted by Wesley

I kinda like Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Kylie Minogue, Pink, Joan Jett, Anatacia and Natasha Bedingfield.

I was all about "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears when it came out. I didn't care about anything else from her though.

[Wesley]

Fergie has grown on me recently. Her voice is nice to listen to and I like a few of her songs.

[Zarana-X]

Leo, Penny and Powder mentioned most of the ones I would have already, but I'll add to the list:
Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex), Dinah Cancer (45 Grave), Kim Zilla (Kung Fu Dykes)/Vulvatron(GWAR), Su-Metal(BABYMETAL), Chastain, Daisy Chainsaw, and I'll probably think of more, later.

[pandaderek]

I would assume they do, unless, they're some kind of sexist asshole. I've, always, liked Mariah Carey. Not now because she can't sing as great as she did in the early 90s. My favorite album of hers is Daydream.

[pennydreadful]

Another couple for the list:

- Heather Nova
- Scary Bitches
- Drain STH
- Wicked Wisdom (Jada Pinkett Smith's band)
- Against Me
- Babes in Toyland
- The Devotchkas
- Bratmobile
- The Slits

[Wesley]

I like Rachel Stevens. I also like Jo O'Meara when she's with S Club 7.

[Creativemind]

I like Otep, Arch Enemy, and The pretty Reckless.

[Amaranthus]

Kiesza, that's pretty much it.

[Venom]

Wow, the ones I like mainly been listed for the most part.

September Mourning and The Birthday Massacre is a couple more; SM is all over the hard rock spectrum and TBM is like dark ballad rock...think sweeping synths and heavy riffs.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Within Temptation and Halestorm.

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Creativemind

I like Otep, Arch Enemy, and The pretty Reckless.

If you heard a high-pitched screeching sound across the trans-atlantic, that was the sound of me being excited that there's a fellow Otep fan on the boards.



Tribe for life, my brother.

[Netkeeper]

Originally Posted by Venom

Wow, the ones I like mainly been listed for the most part.

September Mourning and The Birthday Massacre is a couple more

:<

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Within Temptation and Halestorm.

:<

Did nobody read my list?

Originally Posted by Netkeeper

I don't usually listen to single artists. I do like Tarja Turunen, though.

So have some bands that feature female vocalists [including Nightwish, when Tarja Turunen was their vocalist and after she left]:

Within Temptation [x] [x] [x] [x]; Sharon den Adel is probably my favourite female vocalist ever, she has an absolutely beautiful voice and I couldn't pick just one example
Nightwish [x] [x] [x]; first song with Tarja as their vocalist for comparison to the other two
Amaranthe [x]; I just really love this song okay
Halestorm [x] [x]
Arch Enemy [x]
Epica [x]
Lacuna Coil [x]
The Birthday Massacre [x]
Leaves' Eyes [x]
Edenbridge [x]

Also Within Temptation covered Radioactive and did the song way better than Imagine Dragons did

And for a genre completely different, I also enjoy Celtic Woman, Lady Gaga, Cher, and Aqua. Evanescence and Paramore are also just fine with me, but I hear them way too much to go listening to them when I'm by myself, you know?

This post took forever.

[AT-Man]

Don't worry, Net, I read your beautiful post :3 Nightwish 4 lyphe!

I like: Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Texas, Millionaires, Roxette, Blondie, Within Temptation... and many more.

[Allio]

I love Nano's music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGazzxcp3I

[pennydreadful]

Loreena Mckenitt and Enya are also good.