Music magazine editors sideline female employees who raise red flags when plans are made to cover well-known creeps. Managers intimidate women at public events because they don’t like the way they have written about their male charges. To this end, publicists for male indie stars ask for guarantees that allegations and evidence of an artist’s bad behaviour aren’t referred to in interviews, and often receive those guarantees. But this can curdle into a more insidious form of toxic masculinity – what music website the Quietus referred to as “beta male misogyny”, after Ariel Pink told a journalist: “Beta males have got it figured out so that they don’t have to chase or rape their prey.” Because indie rock considers itself culturally progressive – unlike rock with its concomitant outrageousness – it rarely takes well to being called out, and takes great pains to protect its brand, which depends on an impression of sensitivity. The independent-music culture of which Adams is a longstanding figurehead prides itself on being different to rock: more sensitive feminist, even. Note, too, how many female geniuses are dismissed as divas, their art depicted as a symptom of disorder, their responses to mistreatment and calls for respect characterised as proof of an irrational nature. ![]() As I wrote for this paper in 2015: “Male misogynist acts are examined for nuance and defended as traits of ‘difficult’ artists, women and those who call them out are treated as hysterics who don’t understand art.” This was after, in response to an interview request, Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek told a crowd that I was a “bitch” who wanted to have his babies. His complexity underpins his so-called genius. His trademark sensitivity offers plausible deniability when he is accused of less-than-sensitive behaviour. Bad behaviour can be blamed on his prerequisite troubled past. The concept of male genius insulates against all manner of sin. And because he resembles most of the men who run the industry, few of them are in any hurry to act when he is accused of heinous behaviour, lest their own actions come into question. He sells records, concert tickets and magazines. The male genius is the norm from which everyone else deviates. The industry has been slower to reckon with its abusers post-#MeToo than other art forms, partly because it is built on a generally permissive culture of excess and blurred lines between work and leisure – but also because the myth of the unbridled male genius remains at its core. Surely to men, too, although if they talk about them, it’s rarely to us women. Stories like these are eminently familiar to me and many other women who work in the music industry. ![]() When the musician Phoebe Bridgers began a relationship with Adams after he offered to mentor her – at the time he was 40, she 20 – she said he quickly became emotionally abusive and manipulative, “threatening suicide” if she didn’t reply to his texts immediately. His ex-wife, the musician and actor Mandy Moore, described him as “psychologically abusive”. More info: Instagram | below-surface.I wish I could say I was surprised by the New York Times report detailing allegations that the singer-songwriter Ryan Adams offered to mentor young women, before pursuing them sexually and turning nasty after they turned him down. As a frequent visitor of Greenland that sits right next to the North Pole, Friedrich has seen the huge impact that global warming has had on this land and how this country’s ice melts earlier with each passing year. These amazing photos convey a very strong message about the effects of global warming and how we need to take some urgent actions so these incredible icebergs won’t melt away. His stunning pictures perfectly represent their various shapes, sizes, and textures, proving that each of them is unique and the real beauty of them can only be seen if you look underneath. Traveling from tropical locations to the arctic, he captures the beautiful views of icebergs from below, making the underwater world his home.ĭuring his trip to Greenland, he had a really good close-up and personal view of icebergs laying there and got the chance to appreciate their incredible size and greatness. 39-year-old German photographer Tobias Friedrich started photographing his adventures and making a name for himself as a top photographer in underwater photography in 2007.
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