Bad Bad Bitches: The Playlist

BAD BAD BITCHES

A monthly playlist of alternative/indie/punk/rap by female/non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming artists. 

Across Europe women only make up 1/5 of registered composers and songwriters (https://www.womeninmusic.org/stats.html). This stark difference is most acute and obvious within alternative music. Pop and mainstream music has seen the rise of powerful female artists such as Beyonce and Ariana Grande, with thanks to the legends such as Madonna. However, alternative music is still behind on the gender balance – just take a look at any Reading and Leeds line up poster.

This is the poster from 2019 – of the 4 headline acts (Foo Fighters, The 1975, Post Malone and Twenty One Pilots). Of the 17 members of these bands, they are all cisgender men. To put that in to statistics, even if you only assume that there are 2 genders, which there are many of, the chances of 17 performers all being male is 0.000007629394531. That number is incomprehensible. Other than Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds is the biggest alternative music festival in the UK, so how on earth is the line up still in the dark ages? 

The first track on this playlist is what inspired its creation. Dream Wife are a 3-piece punk band from London. I was lucky enough to see them at Dot to Dot festival in Bristol this year at the O2 Academy. A fury of feminist gender fuck rocking out, Dream Wife perform with an unparalleled energy, perfect for moshing in your bedroom. DREAM WIFE FOR LIFE!

  1. F.U.U ft Fever Dream – Dream Wife


  1. I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend – Ezra Furman (she/he/they)

  1. Hand Solo - Marika Hackman 

  1. Offence - Little Simz 

  1. Pussy Is God – King Princess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGIkGbs1VEc

  1. I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus - Beabadoobee 

  1. Show me More – Girl Ray


  1. Food For Thought – Mattiel

  1. Career Boy - Electrian Dorian 

  1. Countin’ Up - Rico Nasty 

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Written by Scar Kennedy

Scar Kennedy is a fashion design student who originally studied in Bristol, but has now moved to Salford, Manchester. They miss the chaotic energy of Bristol and common place of bare nipples on nights out dearly. Although Scar is not a graduate like many of the other writers, they are a “mature-student” or whatever, and so relate to the disconnect from the fresher lifestyle. 

















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