Am I sexist?

[switch842]

Story time....

Hubby and I have very different musical tastes. He mostly listens to the local Top 40 Pop type station (The Mix) and similar stations. I listen to the rock/alternative station (Q101). As you can imagine, when we are in the car, there is a lot of station flipping going on. He noticed a trend a while back that pretty much whenever there was a female singer on, I would change the station, so one day he asked what I had against female singers. I thought about it for a moment cos I didn't think I had anything against female singers. After a little consideration, I came to the point that it wasn't that the singers were necessarily female, just that females are most likely to make the sort of bubble gum electro-pop that I basically despise. Hubby accepted this and we moved on.

Fast forward a few weeks and here come Glee. Specifically, here come The Warblers with their cover of Teenage Dream. Now, Katy Perry is basically in my Top 5 of "Oh, dear God, please go away and stop existing" musical artists. However, I CANNOT GET ENOUGH of Darren and The Warblers and their cover of this song.

For some reason, I am greatly disturbed by this. Am I sexist? Do I just dislike all female singers? A friend asked me who my favorite female singer was, and I pretty much couldn't answer.

I am so confused by this for most likely no reason at all and I should just stop thinking and enjoy whatever music I enjoy. But this is disturbing me....

Comments

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

Most of the female artists I like probably remain unknown to those who only listen to Top 40 type music. I like Lady Gaga to some extent but prefer Kylie Minogue. I'll stop and listen to Ladytron and Miss Kittin too, and while Peaches can be fun sometimes I can't say that I've listened to Pink all that much. The Knife has an amazing sound, but it's only half female as her brother sings half the time.

But I have no real favorites and I don't really think about whether I have a proper quota of any particular gender listed under my Like category. I can say with certainty that Katy Perry does not fall anywhere on any list of mine. She just doesn't interest me.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I don't think necessarily that I think I need to have/like listening to female artists, necessarily. It's just the sudden LOVE of this song that I despised when done by someone else just completely threw me off my rocker for some reason. As I said, I'm sure I was just over thinking it and it's really not that complicated. :-)