The-admit-you-like-girl-bands thread

The lack of Atomic Kitten here is quite disturbing.

Also Sugarbabes (Original group)

@citizenbane: Be Gone Bane!!!!!!!!

Two people recommending Atomic Kitten on this thread, is still a disturbing lack of Atomic Kitten.

@ragdollpurps: @bumpyboo: Girls....... Don't even get me Started on Brody Dalle. I has suuuuuuch a crush on her. (blushing and heart beating faster)

@x35: Our sisterhood song~ ♥

Wait! Girls can sing?! I kid! I kid! Seriously though, no I don't have any favorite girl bands.

I SAID YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. YOU + PROBLEMS = ALL THE TIME.

Does "No Doubt" count? They were pretty awesome back in the '90's.

@capfanboy: Join us. Become one of us. One of us............................

One Stefani does not a girl-band make.

Nooooo.

@capfanboy: Okay, then i can honestly say that i do not like any all girl bands...wait what about "Heart"? I didnt really like them, but they have some nostalgia to their songs.

Anyone recommend any good girl bands?

@nerdork: Ehhh.....

When there is such a thing I'll get in touch.

@capfanboy said:

Wrong. Of course No Doubt counts. ¬_¬

Sure, what kind of music are you into?

@ragdollpurps: It's a band headed by a girl. That's like saying Sublime are simply a boy band. They aren't.

Does Heart or Paramore count?

I agree with this, but I think the biggest reason they are so popular is because of Joan Jett.

I know its not an all girl band, but right now Halestorm is my favorite band.

@nova_prime_ said:

Actually I would say Cherie Currie played a part as well.

Heart maybe, Paramore definitely not (although they're fcking awesome).

Having a female singer =/= being a girl band.

@capfanboy: Yeahh, but when you make songs like 'Just A Girl', songs from a predominantly female point of view, and your music is geared toward a predominantly female demographic, you kinda are a girl band, whether you aim to be or not. No Doubt certainly aren't very political compared to the bands of the Riot Grrrl movement, but they definitely are a girl band. You don't have to be a girl to like girl bands and there's nothing wrong with being one. I know lots of men who love No Doubt simply because they're a great ska band.

You say that like being a girl band is a bad thing~

And I would the say the same about Paramore.

@ragdollpurps: Wasn't my intent at all!

I just think that girl bands:groups (Spice Girls, The Veronica's, Destiny's Child) and bands that have a female lead singer (Paramore, No Doubt, Automatic Loveletter) are different things.

One's not inherently better than the other, by any means.

@mercy_: I usually think of bands as things... with people... who play instruments, and call groups like the former by their genre, for instance a female pop group or a female R&B group.

Evanescence is not a girl band, but the lead singer is a girl (Amy Lee). I'm a fan of theirs (well, at least some of their stuff; I don't like their latest album).

Yes! I admit it! I confess I love this girl band!

And if you know even just a half of these girls then high five! Cause I know what is contained on those hidden folders of yours! :D

Yup. Many.

@ragdollpurps: Right and I don't think that I said differently?

I interpret 'girl band' as being a band full of girls. As in just girls. Which would exclude bands that are just fronted by females. As they're not girl bands, they're bands that happen to have a girl in them.

Missed your post about No Doubt the first time (on my phone). And coming from it at that angle, I agree with you.

There's a great Japanese all girl 3 piece I used to listen to called Yellow Machine Gun.

Aw sh*t, almost forgot Illumeci before they became Ill Teague. Those girls are phenomenal.

@ragdollpurps: I'm not disputing that No Doubt are a great ska band, they are. I'm just saying that I classify girl bands/groups as groups that have solely women or that women are in the majority in the band. To me, No Doubt are just a Ska-Punk band, not a girl band. I could be wrong (in fact I'd place money that I probably am) but they're not a girl band, at least to me.

i see no mention of The Shangri-Las, ESG, The Tammys , kleenex, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Slant 6, Quix*o*tic, Algebra Suicide, Nina Hagen, Lydia Lunch, Diamanda galas, Kate Bush .....

ESG. just 3 girls from the south bronx.

Nina Hagen. Genius.

I wouldn't necessarily call them girl bands but I love me some Halestorm and In This Moment...they are girl fronted bands but I don't know if I'd call them girl bands

Love Joan Jett. <3

I used to bump Kitty, Spice Girls, and I like PCD

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