tracii 's review for:

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame by Lisa Robinson

3.0

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Lisa Robertson pulls from her decades of experience as a musical journalist and as well as previous interviews in order to discuss the pitfalls of being female and famous. While I expected the book to be set up as interviews with (or chapters on) individual artists, the author chose to divide the book into sections (Abuse, Drugs, Sex) and compiles anecdotes and quotes that fit the topic. Unfortunately, this set-up makes the book seem scattered and less in depth than it is or could be. I wish we got more than an interview pulled apart and scattered across the book. The author also has a habit of choosing and glorifying her favorite female artists, her "kindred spirits", and trashing others for reasons that are never really clear, other than their success or ambition. In some cases, she spends pages indulging in the very behavior she wants to condemn in the book. I wanted to like this so much more. As it is, "Nobody Ever Asked..." is just okay.