Why dont many girls like prog? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Edited by Kepler62 - May 21 2017 at 17:25

Kepler62 wrote:

uduwudu wrote:

Prog is the only pop music that doesn't have a pop culture (fashion) image.

What about capes?

Knee high soft brown boots with little fringey things at the top.

Bowie made what was for the most part a couple of prog albums, and he seemingly changed his "fashion image" for every album.

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

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Kepler62 wrote:

I think a lot of males like prog because they can't get chicks. They live at home with their mothers eat Mars bars wash them down with Coke and when they're not listening to prog they're on their X-box or watching internet porn.

Yep, that’s pretty much the jest of it. Big smile

“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov

Why are so many rap fans and performers black? why are so many boyband fans teenagers? why are so many 50 Shades of Grey fans women?
We don't need to achieve some sort of bizarre quota and/or equilibrium, things are they way they are and that's fine.

"Sir, we have achieved an even split between native americans, whites, blacks and women when it comes to prog, but we've found 70% of fans are tall"
"I'm 1,84, sir and willing to give my prog credentials to a dwarf in order to reach the desired goal of an even split"
"Fantastic!...oh, wait..only 0.7% of fans are handicapped, we need to ditch almost 50% of the fanbase!"

I'm joking, of course

but in a similar vein, I've seen guys complaining that certain movies lack girls, blacks, whites, etc. Positive racism/sexism is still racism/sexism. The only sin for a movie is lacking good actors because someone chose a cast based on things different from acting!
As you can see, I digress a lot

Going back to the topic. My gf loves prog. She's into Yes, ELP and DT among others.

Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.

The thing somewhere above about women preferring overall sensations/fenomena (I can't remember the exact wording) rather than details rings true with me, although I can't speak for everyone. I'm not really interested in discussing super-technical stuff, I don't care which exact sub-genre of metal I'm listening to, I find it jarring the way (some... plenty, in my experience) boys always need to know more than whoever they're talking to ("NO YOU DUMBASS ON THE LIVE VERSION IT'S ____ ON BASS") - I just want to chill and enjoy and let all the good music wash over me with cool people...

Anyway though some gigs attract plenty of girls, let's face it it's very rarely anything close to 50-50. I'd like more prog and metal girls around! Bring your crew!

Edited by happythe - May 16 2017 at 08:23

Stop me from dreaming?
Okay :-(

If a girl is wearing a Slayer TV and can sing the whole lyrics of the Season in the Abyss album back to front, and tell you weather something is Prog, death, black, grindcore or NWOBH, I'm pretty sure she's a metal fan. In fact, I've met quite a few of those in my experience. I've also met prog fans who happened to be girls

Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.

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....why don't many girls like Thrash ??

Oh yeah:

Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.

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