If a female performer seeking a male audience wanted to equal the sexual arousal power of the sharply dressed Beatles singing “I want to hold your hand” to a female audience, she’d have to sing “I want to suck your cock” either fully or mostly naked to a male audience. In other words, female music stars don’t elicit arousal like male music stars do because they, unlike men, are barred by industry and cultural prejudices from participating in the core rock-n-roll relationship: the elicitation by the performer of sexual arousal in the audience. But what about male fans? Sure, they’re sexually empowered by acts like Linkin Park, Lil’ Wayne, and Daft Punk, and that fandom is covered in the mainstream press, but what about being sexually aroused? For that, men don’t turn to music performers, they turn to porn stars, a massive fandom environment that definitely isn’t covered by popular media. So why are they so popular? Because what they’re doing for their mostly female audience is what Elvis did for his male audience members: sexually empowering, not sexually arousing, them.įemale fans are sexually empowered by female performers and sexually aroused by male performers, and the things those performers do for their female fans are the meat and potatoes of pop media coverage. For all of the pole dancing, nipple slipping, and straight up sex talking of the Queens of Pop, it’s super important to note one simple fact: these women are not “eliciting arousal” from their audiences because their fans are predominantly women (please note: all genders in this article are cis and straight, and all listener trends are based on Spotify data). Now, of course, women are making music too, and yet something is different. But the core elicitation of arousal was between a male performer and a female audience.
Women thought Elvis was sexy, and men felt sexy acting like Elvis. Wanted to-but couldn’t.” Now, when we say that Elvis (or any of the male music stars that followed him, including the Beatles, Prince, Bruno Mars, and One Direction) is all about sex, what we’re really saying is that he aroused women and empowered men. As Time Magazine put it, Elvis “was all about sex…the sneer, the gyration, the raised eyebrow…everything American parents wanted to suppress in the mid-1950s. While it might be hard to imagine now, when Elvis started shaking his pelvis on American TV, the world exploded. Further, because of the same biases, the opportunities for male music fans are severely limited compared to the opportunities for female fans. Yes, they’ve busted open some doors for women, but the fact is, what these ladies are allowed to do represents a mere sliver of what male performers are allowed to do. While some might think that these Queens of Pop are part of a trend of sexual liberation, I actually think it’s more complicated. In order to understand this paradox, one merely needs to look at the history of rock-n-roll and its relationship to female musicians like Madonna, Britney, Beyonce, Lana, Rihanna, Miley, and more. It really has to do with what I consider to be a paradox at the heart of feminism that is limiting the creative opportunities of women and the consumer opportunities of men. Given that I’m the only female musician that I know of who has such a site in tandem with her music career, and that I’ve already faced considerable negativity from the music industry, art world, friends, family, and mainstream press for this decision, I feel it’s time to give my reasoning. Everyone who tunes in will also be sent a private link to a digital naked swag bag hosted on my naked pay site,. On February 24, 2016, I’ll be hosting a pre-release party on Periscope and Snapchat for my first EP, Sex Rock.
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