“I Disagree”: Narratives of Empowerment in Poppy’s Project
“I Disagree”: Narratives of Empowerment in Poppy’s Project
Author(s): Dawid KaszubaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Music, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: narratives of empowerment;the Internet culture;personae;women in metal, post-genre aesthetics;
Summary/Abstract: In this article I shall examine how Poppy uses her extreme grotesque effect to construct visual, audial and lyrical narratives of empowerment – in gender, personal, and musical context. I shall shed a light on the way her self-awareness as a female vocalist deconstructs the image of ‘metal woman’ – through subversive combination of hyperfeminine image with aggressive music and involved lyrics – to expose excluding paradigms which determine female presence in metal. Finally, I shall show how her post-genre aesthetics undermines hardened determinants of what is, and what is not ‘metal’.
Journal: Studia de Cultura
- Issue Year: 13/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 57-71
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English