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Cyrus was raised on women-fronted rock 'n' roll.

Cyrus was raised on women-fronted rock 'n' roll.

“3 July 1976, Hastings Pier. It’s my birthday and I’ll party if I want to.” Marianne Joan Elliott-Said is attending a Sex Pistols gig on her 19th birthday. “I stand centre point in an almost empty ballroom; three Swedish babes stared at Johnny.” Inspired by Rotten and co, the teenager decides to form her own band and places an ad in Melody Maker: “Young punx who want to stick it together,” she writes. She adopts a new moniker from the Yellow Pages – a send up of popstar attri...

Cyrus was raised on women-fronted rock 'n' roll.

Rock This podcast, Cyrus shared that her dad— Billy Ray Cyrus—introduced her to strong female artists from a young age. As a result, she never grew up with the notion that rock ‘n’ roll was only made for men. “My dad’s jukebox, when like Johnny Cash would come over, he didn’t really have country singing dudes on his jukebox, to be honest,” she says. “My dad had Etta James [and he] made me listen. I never could appreciate it until I was older. [He] drove me to work every sing...

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Poly StyrenePhotography by Falcon Stuart As a new film about the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex is released, Nick Levine speaks to the singer’s daughter and the documentary’s co-director Celeste Bell March 05, 2021 This riveting documentary film doesn’t offer a revisionist take on Poly Styrene – not exactly, anyway. As the thrillingly idiosyncratic singer driving X-Ray Spex, one of British punk’s most dynamic bands, her place in history is already assured. But it does reframe the late musi...

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At one point in Netflix’s new Amy Poehler-directed movie Moxie, a group of teenage girls gather in a private room during a party to vent about the douchey boys at their school. One of them shuffles a deck of playing cards, realization dawning on her face. “You know what I just realized? The king is worth more than the queen,” she says, with the air of someone discovering the greatest secrets of the universe. “Why? The queen is the best.” That weirdly contrived wokeness bogs Moxie do...