A review by rdoose
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper

4.0

This was very enjoyable, at times powerful, and definitely thought-provoking. The first essay after the intro, "Emo: Where the Girls Aren't" really stuck with me because it spoke to something I had never really considered: the majority of emo songs are by men about how women have destroyed or wronged them, or at minimum made them sad. It made me look at how my music tastes have changed over the years; I always thought I fell away from that music because I was no longer a distraught teenager, but I think there's something to the theory that emo died in part because women couldn't identify with it. They moved on and found something better. While that wasn't a conscious progression on my part, it's certainly what happened to me.

Her interview with Jim Derogatis, the journalist who fought against R. Kelly from the get-go, was also very powerful. And while I was reading her interview with Hole, I kept wondering if Taylor Jenkins Reid read that piece before writing Daisy Jones & the Six, because it read so much like the book.

This was issued by a small press and there were some editing issues. But overall a great collection.