The 2010s will definitely be remembered as a crucial decade by the future generations. It saw the rise of the streaming era which indelibly changed the whole business. Some lines have been crossed and they will never be defined again. Some terms and dichotomies, such as "indie" versus "pop", or "safe" versus "avant-garde", have completely melt in a unintelligible spectrum of concepts, expressions and niches. In an endlessly and wonderfully variegated range of different female artists, I tried my best in order to operate a selection. It was not easy at all: critiquing albums means to evaluate different aspects concurrently, such as quality of production, smartness and effectiveness of arrangements, lyrics expressiveness, amount of creativity, overall cohesiveness. And what is even harder is try to select la crème de la crème among hundreds and hundreds of albums released among a multitude of different genres, statements and artistic interpretat...
inspecting women in music