Favourite Musician of the opposite sex?

[AnarchistFish]

This is difficult, I usually like bands, not solo musicians.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are probably my favourite band with a woman in them (Sophie Trudeau), but there's 8 of them and it's impossible to pick my favourite songs by them cos they're a band revolving around whole albums.

Eyes Set To Kill have twin sisters, including the lead singer. All You Ever Knew is their best song IMO but after that it's a crapshoot.
Their earlier albums are really average though.

Florence and The Machine. Drumming Song is her/their(?) best song.


Paramore. Not sure about their best song, Crushcrushcrush and Brick By Boring Brick are good. Ironically, Decode's probably my favourite actually.


In This Moment, Japanese Voyeurs, Lana Del Rey, Lacuna Coil and Scissor Sisters are all decent, and Katy Perry is pretty much the only pop musician I'd say I kinda like.

Apart from GY!BE though, I don't particularly love any of them.

 

[GameChanger]

I admit it. I have been searching through my discography for hours, and I haven't been able to find a single female trailer music composer at all. I don't know if they're just that rare (my collection is pretty big) or that they simply don't exist.

What I do know is that Enya has an amazing voice. But she isn't really my favorite.

 

[II2]

Interesting thread. Though not chosen based off gender, all my 'favorite' musicians/composers/bands are male... That said, I can think of a few female fronted or written acts I really like:

Probably far and away, the great and terrible lady Diamanda Galas: Classically trained, experimentally minded, 3 1/2 octave vocal range, sorta a dark queen of awesome music.

Cosey Fanny Tutti / Chris and Cosey / Throbbing Gristle


Nikki / Prometheus Burning:


Ms. Arafna / Haus Arafna

Yoko Kanno / Ogira

Bjork? The lady from SINA? I dunno... Not as many female producers and musicians active in the music I listen to as other genres maybe.

EDIT: Oh, damn, forgot Brody Dalle / Distillers / Spinerette

 

[KefkaCultist]

Hard to choose one, but I'll go with Otep Shamaya as my favorite.

Spoiler: a few songs

Metal needs more women like her. It's not just looking pretty and screaming *cough*Maria Brink of In This Moment*cough*. Otep always has great lyrics. Sometimes they're political, sometimes personal, and sometimes just fun and she delivers them with a great metal voice. She's also a published poet which is cool.

 

[NvrPhazed]

My music tastes constantly evolve. If you asked me 4 years ago I would of said Utada Hikaru,
but now I have to go with this woman.

Florence + the Machine is awesome here is my favorite song by them:

 

[BlackStar42]

Someone else already mentioned Simone Simons, and I have to agree, she has a great set of... pipes. You thought I was going to say something else there, didn't you. Other female musicians I really like are Joan Jett and Lzzy Hale. My favourite song Halestorm have done has got to be Mz. Hyde.

 

[The White Hunter]

unless they dress in skanky clothes and sing about sex all the time, that is. Methinks they do have favourites, but they're just afraid to admit it at the risk of looking 'gay'.

Thats why I don't even know many female artists tbh.
Also, surely liking only male artists would affirm the 'gay' factor?

Since I don't really like any female artsists, for no other reason than 95% of my music taste is metal and womens metal vocals are always something I dislike, I shall go forth with Trent Reznor.

Because gods don't have gender.

 

[SadisticBrownie]

Beth Gibbons of Portishead. Excellent voice, excellent music, and she's 47 and still looks amazing.

 

[sextus the crazy]

In terms of time spent listening its definitely Simone Simons of epica

Saw her in Berlin; was awesome.

OT: luiza Carvalho [http://ocremix.org/artist/4720/luiza] of OCRemix.

Spoiler: Fire Cross

 

[Dangit2019]

Lzzy Hale. That was easy enough.

 

[Joos]

Spoiler

Wooooooow. Holy shit. Nice.

OT: Can't think of anyone tbh. Not a lot of women in metal. (Don't like the melodic stuff.)

What am I reading? There are heaps of chicks in metal nowadays. Check it:

Otep

Spoiler

The Agonist

Spoiler

Arch Enemy

Spoiler

Black Veil

Spoiler

Thats just a start...

 

[piinyouri]

Danie Powers, singer for Powers Court.

Spoiler

Sabina Classen, singer for Holy Moses

Spoiler

Emma Luby aka 'Lady Pentagram', drummer for The Lamp of Thoth

Spoiler

 

[TheTim]

Taylor Swift, who else?

1. A place in this world
2. Ours
3. Sparks Fly

 

[Wuks95]

It has to be Florence from F+TM. Great voice, interesting videos and most importantly amazing lyrics.
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Other than that, maybe Lana del Rey. Can't sing live, but she has that something.
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[theparsonski]

unless they dress in skanky clothes and sing about sex all the time, that is. Methinks they do have favourites, but they're just afraid to admit it at the risk of looking 'gay'.

Thats why I don't even know many female artists tbh.
Also, surely liking only male artists would affirm the 'gay' factor?

Yeah, that's always confused me. Pehaps it's just the fact that they would be going against the tide of popular (dickhead) music, and they're all sheep who follow the crowd. Just so happens that most musicians (if you can call them that) of the dickhead genre are male.

 

[Nouw]

Either Bridget Fogle or Florence Welch. Both are incredibly talented and have absolutely stunning voices.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Utada Hikaru and for her songs-
1 Passion
2 Simple and Clean
3 Making Love

Before you asked, no I'm not a Kingdom Heart fan, heck I never even played those games yet but I really like the songs she made for that game.

 

[Brewtus]

Amy Lee from Evanescence is definitely my favorite female musician. Her voice is very relaxing. It'd be tough to narrow down three songs though, anything off of Fallen works for me.

 

[Breywood]

Lee Aaron. We Canadians crowned her the "Metal Queen" because she was one of the first female vocalists doing vocals for heavy metal in the mid 80's. A tiny little woman with a voice twice her size. And even though she's over 40 years old now, she looks better now than she ever did. Voice is a wee bit shorter, but she's still sounds great.

Covers Montrose in the first one. If I'd ever heard Sammy Hagar sing this first, she'd have me changing my pants every time I'd hear her sing it.

A live clip from a concert two years ago.