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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Rolling Stone's Women Who Rock Winner Announced Today

Posted by on Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:05 AM

Finally, it's the moment we've all been waiting for! The extra special occasion that celebrates the shocking revelation that women play music (wow!) with Rolling Stone's Women Who Rock issue. Rolling Stone magazine chose six aspiring female-fronted acts to compete for the flip-cover of the special issue. In a year of Pussy Riot and Laura Jane Grace, the editors selected these pop stars by their impressive number of... YouTube hits.

Throughout the duration of the contest, we've been able to follow the women of the (heavily sponsored by Garnier Fructis*) competition in the "Style Files" section of rollingstone.com, where viewers can enjoy videos of each contestant talking briefly about their music and personal style in a convoluted way that really just highlights their physical attributes (slow motion turning/hair tossing, playful pillow tossing, at one point the camera just stops on an extreme close-up of one finalist's butt, ETC.)

More + videos after the jump!

The final two contestants have been narrowed down to finalists Rita Ora and Karmin (made famous with their YouTube Chris Brown cover.) Yawn. The winner will be announced sometime today.

This year, the contest also appears to have partnered with US Weekly to closely follow the female musicians' hair and fashion tips in their section titled "Rock Their Style." Watch as Garnier's stylists play huge part in rock n' roll history by showing us how to copy Carly Rae Jepsen's hairstyle with a bang wiglet. Rock on!

*"Music plays a central role in how Garnier Fructis connects with consumers to celebrate personal style," said Kat Peeler, Garnier Fructis Senior Vice President of Marketing.

 

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jamieaaron 1
This makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a tampon.
Posted by jamieaaron on September 25, 2012 at 8:11 AM
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I agree this is totally gross. That said, many of the Stranger's staff are guilty of doing exactly the same thing.

My girl band got our photo in the music section two years before we were ever actually written about. It's pretty common to see a photo of a pretty girl band in the Up & Coming section without an actual blurb about the band itself. And a number of writers here can't seem to write about a female musician without commenting on her hotness (not just her look, which could be relevant as a performer, but her actual attractiveness). It's gotten better with you and Emily Nokes on staff, but I still cringe when I read that stuff.
Posted by Writing about the music - it's not that hard on September 25, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Erin Resso 3
Fack, I just barfed all over my keyboard.
Posted by Erin Resso http://deejayres.tumblr.com on September 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Emily Nokes 4
@2 - I sympathize with your assessment of barfy music writing about women! As for the Stranger photo, I'm guessing there was a more boring reason behind your theory. Writing a band's blurb doesn't mean we are guaranteed a photo of them with the photographer's permission. If another band on the calendar has legally usable photos, then we might have to pull theirs (with the idea that it's still promoting a band that is playing locally).

And sometimes a good band photo is just a good band photo. You'd be surprised how many blurry cellphone bong rip pics people want to use! :)
Posted by Emily Nokes on September 25, 2012 at 12:51 PM
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they have been ridiculous for the past, oh, 30 years or so. fortunately there is intelligent life out there. www.meowonline.org
Posted by meowonline on September 25, 2012 at 3:43 PM
raku 6
Anyone remember when Sleater-Kinney was named Time Magazine's "Best Band in America" in 2000 or something? Not best girl band, not best women who rock - just best band? The article didn't even talk about how they look or their sexual orientation.

When I read a mainstream article about "girl bands" I like to close my eyes and think of the Time Magazine article and imagine I live in a world where that EVER HAPPENED AGAIN.
Posted by raku on September 25, 2012 at 6:06 PM
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this sucks so hard.
Posted by itsneverthateasy on September 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM
merry 8
That damn staple was the beginning of the end for the Jann Wenner rag......

And yes, I'm old.... :p
Posted by merry on September 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM

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