Comments on: Three sides, now: Why Carole, Joni, and Carly matter

By: Is Bethany Cosentino Taylor Swift for hipsters? « Feminist Music Geek

Is Bethany Cosentino Taylor Swift for hipsters? « Feminist Music Geek — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:42:31 +0000

[...] isn’t particular to them, as this is how most female entertainers are (mis)understood. Read Sheila Weller‘s book on Carol King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon, which detractors could rename How We [...]

By: Grace of My Heart gets a “meh” from me « Feminist Music Geek

Grace of My Heart gets a “meh” from me « Feminist Music Geek — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:26:24 +0000

[...] 1996 feature Grace of My Heart. As it’s loosely based on Carole King’s life and I read Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us this past summer, I was eager to see it. I haven’t watched Anders’s Mi [...]

By: Covered: Joanna Newsom’s “Have One on Me” « Feminist Music Geek

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:53:10 +0000

[...] They even suggest a pop sensibility that gestures toward a potential connection between her and Carole King and Joni Mitchell’s work in early 70s. I think all of this does a service to what are ultimately straightforward songs about [...]

By: Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s by Jacqueline Warwick « Feminist Music Geek

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:23:35 +0000

[...] them were. As mentioned elsewhere, Brill Building stalwarts like Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, and Carole King were of paramount importance to the era. Many of these women, like Greenwich, wrote about seemingly [...]

By: Peggy Olson’s mirror game « Feminist Music Geek

Peggy Olson’s mirror game « Feminist Music Geek — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:08:37 +0000

[...] you may have been able to glean from a previous post about Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon, I follow Mad Men, AMC’s original series [...]