Why don't girl bands work?

When i was one of the "teenage audience", I had a plethora of kickass Riot grrrl bands to listen to.

I think as a ratio, there's just MORE male bands than female bands, for some reason.

*i'm replying to your comment here, since the box things limit the space.

well, the 16-20 year old girl bands wouldn't happen (or it would be EXTREMELY rare), and neither would a 16-20 year old boy band. The boy bands that exist now and in the past were basically just 4 or 5 guys that were recruited for their singing and dancing abilities. It's not like they jammed in their parent's garages every weekend to their own material, ya know? Reason being, they're too young. Even if they all had the SKILL of an adult in playing their respective instruments, they would have to go through the process of recording demos and promoting their music and all that, which would most likely take up all their teenage years before they ever "made it", starting from scratch.

So, that leaves us with older all female bands, say 20 years old and up. I don't know why there aren't many today, tbh. Like i said, when i was in high school, we had Hole, L7, Veruca Salt, the Breeders, Sonic Youth, Garbage, Liz Phair, etc. There were plenty of rocker chicks.

My theory though, is that they kind of coat-tailed onto the bigger grunge acts of the day, like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc. And grunge was very pro-women and feminist minded, so since that was the popular cultural mindset of the time, it's only logical that female bands would play a big part of that scene.

I suppose record label execs don't think there is a market for it today like there was back then. Which is a shame.

Well most female singers nowadays choose to go the solo route because that's the easiest way to capitalize off their talents. They aren't splitting the money with other band members (or at least not as much as they would with actual members, I'm sure the people who play the instruments for songs get something) and they can take their career in whatever direction they want and they don't have to answer to any other members. Most of them are pop singers; Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, Lady GaGa, etc.

Also there might not be a high demand for "girl bands". Especially if their genre would be pop. Got too much of that IMO. I know I hate almost every boy band in the modern era, so a girl band (or at least their music) wouldn't really appeal to me. There are girl bands out there, I'm sure, but they aren't popular or at least I haven't heard of any big ones in a while.

And, those 14-18 girls don't care if the attractive boys play instruments, because a lot don't. Just saying.

Tell that to Shonen Knife and Scandal!

I don't think there is a stigma. Plenty of guys drool over a girl that play an instrument for some reason.

Scandal have topped the charts a lot and have been on tons of interview and game shows... they're huge... even if it's not globally, they definitely worked and definitely made it. Shonen Knife are past their 20's because they've been making music forever

This'll sound sexist, but when the time comes, most women just aren't geared for that kind of creative thought and discipline, unfortunately due to societal pressures and norms. There hasn't exactly been a wash of female composers beyond pop. Most women who do get into the industry are used infinitely more for their sex appeal than their contribution to human music. Musicians are rare enough, not to mention people who actually write their own material. Not to mention that it's even rarer for a woman to be both. I point out the rarity not to insult the other gender but to praise how unique it is.

Kittie.

L7.

The Runnaways.

4 Non Blondes.

7 Year *****.

Babes in Toyland.

Babymetal.

The Bangles.

Dixie Chicks.

The Donnas.

Girlschool.

The Go-Go's.

Jack Off Jill.

And there's hundreds of female fronted bands, Heart for example.

I guess you never heard of The Spice Girls, Bananarama, The Go Go's, Cheetah Girls, etc, etc.

Lol cuz you can't plug a kitchen into an amp bro #realtalk

ahem* Joan Jett

what about joan jett