Unpopular Opinion

I think you're a victim of availability bias. You're thinking of all the women who sing songs about relationships and forgetting all the men who sing songs about relationships. You're remembering all the men who sing about not-relationships and forgetting all the women who do the same.

Tik Tok, Royals, I Love Rock and Roll, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Tom's Diner, All I Wanna Do, Anti-Hero, 9 to 5, the list can go on indefinitely.

And that goes doubly for comedians.

Mitch Hedberg did jokes about relationships. "I don't have a girlfriend, but I do know a woman who would be mad at me for saying that."

There are dozens of currently active women who do comedy that isn't just about relationships. Most probably include jokes about relationships, but comedy is about shared experiences, and relationships are fertile ground for material.

Nightwish

Amaranthe

Visions of Atlantis

Babymetal

Liliac

And those are just off the top of my head.

FEMALES. You always know it's going to be a nonsensical sexist take when that word pops up over and over.

Cindy Lou Who has a death metal band that's relatively famous.

The music is out there, it's just never gonna pop level huge.

Try this:

Eivør - Trøllabundin

Also, “females” makes you sound like a Ferengi. It’s okay to say women, even when you’re using it as a sexist overgeneralization.

Talk to me when male singers write a modern fairy tale about a monkey and bear who escape from a traveling circus only for the monkey to coerce the bear into prostitution to support the duo until one night the bear sneaks off to bathe and the monkey follows and sees the bear turn into an angel and then into dust after she realizes she's been seen naked.

Did you take into account that most pop songs are about that topics? It's not only female singers

Both Spotify and apple music have massive playlists of female singers in the rock/metal genre, you need to stop looking at pop music if you want to find decent stuff

Have you heard anything by 4 Non Blondes, Veruca Salt, or Hole?

Off the top of my head:

Massively well known: Annie Lennox, Suzanne Vega, some members of Chumbawamba

More indie: Grumpster, Lynette Knackstedt (RIP), The Dollyrots, Cher Strauberry

Also, I think you're making a lot of assumptions here, especially the one where you suspect that if it's not about a relationship, then a man must have written it

If this is a thread to recommend kickass woman songwriters, I'll add a couple of names to the list:

• Gillian Welch. One of the best in country music. Time (The Revelator) is my favourite album, and has a really cool song touching upon themes such as the sinking of the Titanic, the troubles of getting red clay off your dress, and how hard it is to make money as an artist these days.
• PJ Harvey. Listen to hear early stuff for punk, or her newer stuff for all kinds of experimentation. I dig Rid of Me for the former and Let England Shake for the latter.
• Patti Smith. Because somehow I don't see Patti Smith mentioned in this thread yet.

That's truly an unpopular opinion.

“Why yes, I only listen to the Top 100 Billboard songs. How can you tell?” - OP, probably

In all seriousness OP, broaden your horizons in music. You clearly don’t listen to enough music to know that men also sing about breakups, love, and relationships.

Pop songs aren't written by the singer and more of the writers are men.

@QueenB how the hell would you come to this conclusion ?? This is a troll right ?

I hate it when people see the word female and instantly call someone an incel. But this reads like an incel manifesto