Feb 17 2010
“ If we’re hunting for Riot Grrrl’s legacy, I believe the movement has had a more lasting and meaningful impact on less-commercial music than it has on mass culture. Women’s roles in the upper echelons of pop music are evolving ever so slowly (if at all), while most independent-music scenes are much more female-friendly now than they were 20 years ago. Riot Grrrl’s most enduring impact on mass culture is in all the women who are working as artists and writers and musicians today—you and me included—who were encouraged at a pivotal age by the movement’s message of empowerment and self-expression.
A discussion about Liz Phair, Riot Grrrls, and other ’90s women in rock. - By Sara Marcus and Marisa Meltzer - Slate Magazine (via ercornell) (via missworld)
