From Predatory Men to Patti Smith’s Puke, Women Who Rock Holds Nothing Back

Vanity Fair: When we were young music writers in the ’90s and early 2000s, “women in rock” became a category that cut through genres. As a rubric, it came to feel both bizarrely broad and problematic—like if you were covering women artists, you weren’t doing the “important” guy stuff. Since this series is called Women Who Rock, and it covers a wide array of artists, I’m wondering what that phrase means to you in 2022. Jessica Hopper: It is a pretty reductive phrase, but we come at it broadly minded. The magnitude of the music history that we cover and… Read Full Article