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
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.
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?
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.
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
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.