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I feel like it's taken for granted that men often don't like women as lead performers. It must be a Western thing, as I can mentally think of many non-Western examples, the most obvious example of which is Korea.
Unrelated, but my gf was questioning why there's so few male lead singers in the DPRK. I just assume that it's because of conscription, but what do I know.
It didn’t used to be that way - if you look at all those old female pop singers like Billie Holliday or Edith Piaf I don’t think they ever had a specifically feminine audience. I wonder if the introduction of rock music in the 60s onwards, which is in some ways is just a kind of hyper-masculine split from pop/folk music, has something to do with it.
Makes sense