Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (June 19, 2020) Album • Page 118

alt press is still a thing? lol

 

unfortunately.

 

I remember when I got AltPress mailed to my house, lmao

 

I was watching a video of her playing “Waiting Room” in 2012 and this was shared in the comments

it’s her and some classmates from her high school

 

thats pretty nice

 

why do you hum along if you just learned the words?

 

phoebe deserves all the praise but fuck Alt Press - for years they gave platforms to and championed abusive shitty artists and people in the scene, they don't get to look good now just by having a "women rising" issue.

 

i hear a lot of scott hutchison in her writing, idk if that’s just me

 

Crossposting here but if any of you have not listened to the new Julien Baker record I highly recommend doing so. It’s fantastic.

 

Does AltPress cover women often? I feel like if a publication has to have a special “women rising issue” when covering women instead of just...having them part of a normal issue that publication needs to do a better job covering/highlighting women musicians. Like, they shouldn't all be relegated to one special issue.

That doesn’t diminish how cool is they got covered at all, it just seems...performative to try and counter all the shitty men (and just men in general) they have covered over the years?

 

Her dad seemed so cool and supportive and obviously has great taste in music and merch

 

Funny you should ask! A few years ago during the “no more silence AP” or whatever, I pulled every single instance of a woman being on the cover and ran some stats! This was current in 2016, but I have a feeling it didn’t improve much in the last five years.

So, as of 2016...

Years AltPress had no women on the cover:

2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014


White Women on the cover:

Lynn Gunn (x2)

Sydney Sierota

Hayley Williams (x6)

Cassadee Pope

Sierra Kusterbeck

Michelle Nolan

Tegan and Sara

Victoria Asher

Unidentified woman in band called “This Goes to 11”

The Distillers

The Donnas

Shirley Manson

Tori Amos (x3)

Gwen Stefani

Sarah McLachlan

Veruca Salt

Fiona Apple

Mazzy Star

PJ Harvey

Portishead

Velocity Girl

Babes in Toyland

Elizabeth Fraser

The Cramps

Kim Gordon

Tay Jardine


Non-White Woman on the cover:

Christina Martinez (Boss Hog, Dec 1991)

Melanie Martinez (November 2016)


Bands where each male member had his own cover:

My Chemical Romance

All Time Low

AFI

Insane Clown Poss

 

You’re reading correctly, between 1991 and 2016, there were no women of color featured on the cover of Alt Press, and the one who broke the cycle is an alleged rapist.

 

Thanks for the due diligence!!

 

Wow that's pretty fucked up!

 

Those stats are awful, but I shouldn't be surprised since it's AltPress. There's so many talented women and women of color in alternative and punk music that it's shocking a publication which covers those genres is so ignorant to those musicians in the genre.

 

I guess Phoebe has made it now, she bought not only a house but a Tesla for herself

152. - Phoebe Bridgers by How Long Gone • A podcast on Anchor

 

Speculating on how much people make isn't great, but she's definitely doing fine. Assuming a conservative royalty rate of $0.0032, she's making a minimum of $15.5K a month just from Spotify streams (assuming each listener only listens to ONE song a month). Probably a multiple of a few times that, and that's just one of a few streaming services (Apple Music has a higher royalty rate).
Kyoto has 28.5M streams on Spotify, which would be roughly $91,200 just for that one song on one service. Definitely Tesla money.

 

Haha my comment was just to get people to listen to the podcast because it's good and I always enjoy hearing Phoebe speak, but yeah definitely

 

well I guess I can't listen to Phoebe anymore now that she's turned her back on the revolution

 

Buying a Tesla definitely helps a little bit in the green revolution!

 

come on

 

she’s too big for hollywood handbook, that’s for sure

 

Chanting to myself “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” so as to not allow my hatred of Tesla/Elon Musk to eclipse the positive feelings I have to Phoebe, who is ultimately just a person buying a car.