I still give this a 6 because it does have so much. But who made these choices? How could they leave out some of the most influential women in music ever?
No mention of Buffy St Marie or Joan Baez. None of Queen Latifah or a huge figure like Lauryn Hill. No Wendy O Williams or Lita Ford or even Amy Lee of Evanescence.
Sometimes the series softens what actually happened. There's no mention of Ann Wilson and Debbie Iyall and the garbage they went through from record companies for their weight.
There's huge issues with gender in metal and rap and country, but you don't hear a thing about them in this series. Instead you get the ridiculous claim of Sinnead Oconnor as an "activist" when no one even knew what she was supposedly protesting for years and she came across as paranoid with mental health issues.
The legendary Aretha Franklin is barely mentioned. But Shania Twain gets a ridiculous 8 minutes to bloviate and put her ego on display. And there's no mention of her being long derided as pure fluff, as Steven Earle put it, just a "high paid lap dancer."
She has never done anything remotely close to rock. If you include country, why are the far more influential and talented Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton left out? And they were actual feminists who sang about and were activists for women's rights, not the faux feminism of Twain or Beyonce or Madonna or Whitney of monster egos but not doing a damn thing for anyone else.
No mention of Buffy St Marie or Joan Baez. None of Queen Latifah or a huge figure like Lauryn Hill. No Wendy O Williams or Lita Ford or even Amy Lee of Evanescence.
Sometimes the series softens what actually happened. There's no mention of Ann Wilson and Debbie Iyall and the garbage they went through from record companies for their weight.
There's huge issues with gender in metal and rap and country, but you don't hear a thing about them in this series. Instead you get the ridiculous claim of Sinnead Oconnor as an "activist" when no one even knew what she was supposedly protesting for years and she came across as paranoid with mental health issues.
The legendary Aretha Franklin is barely mentioned. But Shania Twain gets a ridiculous 8 minutes to bloviate and put her ego on display. And there's no mention of her being long derided as pure fluff, as Steven Earle put it, just a "high paid lap dancer."
She has never done anything remotely close to rock. If you include country, why are the far more influential and talented Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton left out? And they were actual feminists who sang about and were activists for women's rights, not the faux feminism of Twain or Beyonce or Madonna or Whitney of monster egos but not doing a damn thing for anyone else.