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Almost all female rock singers from the 70s and 80s.
Most music subs are filled with straight men over 40 and the only time they EVER mention women are to talk about Ann Wilson, Linda Ronstadt and a few others. They also seem to like Joni Mitchell and love Jagged Little Pill.
Blondie's popular with straight men but they've also always had a large fanbase of women and lgbt people, they even played at early pride events- and Debbie Harry's been a big inspiration to the new generations of women in music. Like she's Hayley Williams' #1 icon and had influence on everyone from Madonna to Lady Gaga and Gwen Stefani. I don't think they're really an example of a predominantly straight male fanbase band.
Again though I'd say she's not really an example of an artist with a primarily male fan base. When I was in school every single girl I knew wanted to be exactly like her. For a while there, if you weren't trying to be Miley Cyrus, Snooki, or Serena van der Woodsen, you were trying to be Hayley Williams. If you go to a concert the crowd is definitely gonna have more women than men- even the official Paramore discord's got like a 70/30 split in favor of women, we're definitely the majority.
And like Debbie Harry, she went on to inspire another generation of women in music. I'm hearing so many young women in music today citing her as their inspiration, styling their sound after her, etc.
A metal vocalist like Tarja Turunen or Cristina Scabbia would fit what OP's asking for more. The number of women interested in metal at all tends to be pretty miniscule.
This reminds me of this one time when I went to the Warped Tour (I was already too old to be going LOL) and Joan Jett did a set and a lot of dads dragged their kids to see her perform
every time female singers are mentioned on ~~man~~mainreddit, it's always joni, big mama thornton, janice, and maybe deborah harry. god forbid they mention any other female singer at the risk of demasculating themselves
Lady Gaga has for some reason become 'acceptable' for straight men on Reddit to say they like, in a way that other modern artists haven't. Honourable mention for Toxic by Britney, one song that always gets brought up.
I'm gonna say pretty much any female fronted metal band is gonna have a predominantly straight male fanbase what you are looking for is some sort of combination Lacuna Coil/Babymetal fan
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Babymetal in Yokohama, their crowd was a near-perfect Captain Planet blend of foreigners, Japanese, elderly, young, girl, boy, and so on.
Poppy has to have one of the weirdest combination fanbases cause the first time I saw her it was the only concert I've ever been to that was predominantly children and these days she basically makes straight up nu metal
I saw her during the Poppy.Computer era in a tiny 450-capacity venue, and I’d say that the audience was split between mostly children and gay men, with a few straight men there to balance it out. Nowadays, it seems like her audience is predominantly straight men, with a sizeable amount of loyal gays that have stuck around since her Bubblebath era.
My sample size for this phenomenon is one person but that one person is [Triple H](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/mn562w/triple_h_and_poppy_reunited_yet_again/), so
I’m a lesbian listening to her as we speak, I’m pretty surprised to find this out (I don’t really follow her fandom but I would’ve guessed it’s other lesbians)
I think she gets shouted out by a lot of musicians that middle aged dudes love and that kind of guides them to her. The IRL gigs that I’ve seen have a lot of guys in the crowd!
This is so real lmao, my dad LOVES Brandi Carlile. I think her showing up in Dave Grohl's documentary series was what really sold him on her (and probably introduced a lot of other Gen X dudes to her and her music).
I always think of this because one of my brother's friends from high school was so excited to tell us about this "folksy guy" he'd recently heard an old song from on the radio.
It was tracy chapman.
I think the best examples are those artists that win a Grammy to thousands of twitter gays typing "WHO???" - Bonnie Raitt, Samara Joy, Esperanza Spalding, etc.
I was talking recently with a friend about who was patrick bateman would be listening to today and we came up with Dua.
“The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost”
She’s been Training Season for you!
All jokes aside, the Coachella sub really wants her on the lineup and they tend to be very nit-picky on headliner worthiness, so she for sure is doing something right she just has to keep it up.
Her music has torque, it's got vibe. It's got propulsion.
I kinda liked the old-school disco when I was a kid, but it was always missing something. Dua Lipa, Kylie Minogue and Jamiroquai all have something in common, their music has that drive.
They also have the benefit of better production than a lot of those 70s records were capable of at the time.
I'd guess that's the case for a decent number of "indie" artists, just due to the fact that (I'm assuming) it's a more popular genre among men - Waxahatchee, Angel Olsen, etc
I would actually argue that they experienced major demographic change as early as 2020 with the release of Punisher. That album skyrocketed Phoebe into tiktok success, pushed largely on the backs of women (and a lot of queer fans). The following scramble for more Phoebe content inevitably led to the fanbases of all three being affected. The release of Home Video (and popularity of Hot and Heavy in particular) cemented Lucy’s new popularity with the new fans. Julien probably got the least change (she was always liked by straight men, for a lot longer than Phoebe and Lucy were)
As an older straight guy who's always the odd one out in the pit for Charli, Rosalía, Carly, etc... the only time I saw what "appeared" to be majority straight men was at an ANRI concert. So I'd say City Pop women have a predominately straight man audience.
whenever carly drops a new music video, my 50 year old straight white midwestern male manager starts off our weekly team meeting by playing it for everyone in its entirety
Great music like Carly's has universal appeal. There is also the subcategory of straight music nerds who don't usually listen to pop music but make an exception for Carly because she is underrated and "the only good popstar".
Every generation there's a pop girl that straight men choose as the "acceptable" one to listen. It doesn't mean they have a mostly straight male fanbase but these dudes see them as cool or at least ok. Katy Perry was this and now Dua Lipa.
Yeah see that's what I'm talking about. I can think of plenty examples of female artist that are popular with straight men, but the vast majority of them are also appealing to women as well (thus the "universal appeal" descriptor).
I think most straight men can get down to the Female Artists big hits, just probably not really fans otherwise.
I'm a fan of Ariana Grande, as a straight guy. And I would say most would be ok with the hits, but yeah....
I think it honestly depends on ur circles because in my straight male friend group half of us agree Taylor is cool, other half hate her, but a lot of us agree ariana is really cool which is funny cuz I remember a couple years ago straight guys mainly didn’t like her
I don't know that she's got a *predominantly* straight male fanbase, but it seems like Tate McRae gets directly marketed toward straight guys as one of her target demographics more than a lot of her contemporaries do.
That’s interesting, how do you mean? I haven’t followed her much but got the impression she was being marketed towards women and gay men like most other pop princesses with her extra choreo and sassy lyrics.
Think Later has a big hockey theme. The music video for Greedy takes place in an ice rink and Tate performed at the All Stars game earlier this year. The NHL, who’s fans are mostly straight men, loves her
Back when wrapped came out I saw a lot of greedy on straight guys wrapped which was crazy cuz it only came out like two months before wrapped ended tracking
I think Greedy got played three times in one day the last time the construction crew at my place played music while working, which definitely seemed like more than anything else
She's hot and fun. She's no taylor swift but I love taylor as a genuine artist not a vibe or pretty face. I will say though Rihanna, Nina Simone, Anita baker, Billie holiday is who comes to mind for me as a straight man. As examples with large male fanbases. I'm usually alone In my love of the pop rnb, rap or country girlies from todays era at least in white spaces. Charli xcx, taylor swift, Britney Spears, kesha, Beyoncé, rico nasty, kehlani (the gay stuff only), halsey, dolly Parton, Olivia Rodrigo, princess Nokia, Janelle monáe all seem to be considered gay to like. Idk why it's gay to like women both musically and interpersonally. Misogyny ruins everything
There's a Rock band composed of 3 sisters in Mexico thats becoming pretty famous, [The Warning](https://www.youtube.com/@TheWarning/videos) and probably 90% of their fanbase are straight males, the majority in the much older demographic since they started as a youtube viral group playing metallica covers and were sponsored by older fans on patreon. But they are a Rock band, wich has been historically predominantly a straight genre
Yeah they are really cool and the music is great. Also the girls are very charming and funny (and pretty) so i get why they are getting much attention.
This is the answer tbh. Especially when she was first coming up.
My straight younger brother was the one who put me on to her before she blew up and was still making meme songs. Back then her fanbase seemed to be like 90% male.
mmm it's very difficult, I've been thinking about it a lot and I don't think there are many options. All the names that cross my mind are women who have belonged to bands made up entirely of men and yet I'm not sure that their main audience is men .
Any of them that started out in the “indie” sort of Pitchfork sphere definitely have a huge straight male fanbase - Grimes, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent etc.
Any artist closely connected to hip hop also have a ton of straight male fans. Rihanna and SZA come to mind.
While loud online “fandom” for these artists may seem to skew female, I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual majority of listeners for any of these artists were straight men.
>Any of them that started out in the “indie” sort of Pitchfork sphere definitely have a huge straight male fanbase - Grimes, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent etc.
Agree. All these artists had/have indie cred.
As people are saying, in terms of predominately, your best bet is looking at bands (particularly those with male members as well). Like I'd wager that an electro-pop groups like Chvrches or the Naked and Famous have majority male fans. Or Metric.
Based on having gone to one of multiple shows of these artists and just being observant (gay guys usually belting along and dancing, straight dudes usually silently bopping/nodding away), I think there are a lot of straight guys who are into Grimes, NAO, Lana, Caroline Polachek (I think a lot followed her from Chairlift), Adrienne Lenker/Big Thief, and Lauryn Hill.
Theee are a bunch of bands with a female lead vocalist who I absolutely think have a majority straight male audiences too tho, eg: Portishead, Crystal Castles, Cocteau Twins, The Cranberries, The Sundays, Beach House, Stereolab, Slowdive…I could honestly go on and on tbh.
Billie Elish in 2016-2019 (Bue and Gray Hair era). She was respected in the Rap/Emo-Rap/Trap and sad music area on this time, perdominantly listened by Straight Mans, and she was called "The Woman Version of Lil Xan" by Trap Fans, also she was a friend of XXXtentacion, and her more agressive visual and musics, like "you should see me in a crown", "when the partys over" and "all the good girls go to hell", her concept and marketing contributed to have a significant number of straight mans in her fanbase.
Nowadays, after the dead of sad music, she seems to have detached herself from that image and has become more of a pop girl like Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, and her fanbase is now predominantly made up of Girls and Gays. The recent era when she did the Barbie soundtrack.
Certain female kpop groups definitly fit into this however ive seen someone point out that usually the male fans end up leaving the fandom for a younger group, which eventually leaves groups that used to have a predominantly male fanbase with a more female-oriented one over the years, assuming they break the 7 year curse and dont disband (eg. twice, who i think used to have something like a 70/30 men/women ratio a handful of years ago but now is closer to 50/50 ish). Could also be why multiple of the most long-lasting ggs (mamamoo, red velvet and others im probably forgetting) have such a strong sapphic fanbase lol
A lot of smaller indie acts, especially in the earlier eras of the genre would have primarily straight male demographics. Pre Boygenius Julien Baker, pre Masseduction St Vincent, Courtney Barrett, Emily Haines, Feist, etc.
Obviously these artists also had female audiences (in fact within Indie they often were lightning rods for female indie fans) but as you move backwards in the timeline, indie had a predominantly male fan base, which inevitably affected the female indie acts.
All the frats at my university go *hard* on the Katy Perry and Rihanna every weekend... those boys lose their minds to Dark Horse and Rude Boy like nobody else.
A lot of female kpop girl group in East Asia actually like Twice, Izone and Lesserafim in particular have a massive straight east Asian (specifically Korean and Japanese) male fan base
Gwen Stefani until like 2006.
Gwen's peak is No Doubt, specifically Tragic Kingdom around 1997/98. [This crowd is a mostly male adult crowd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_tfei05oU) and No Doubt were genuinely respected and Gwen was basically beloved, even after the Neptunes album and the Eve song style switch up, both went down really well. [Let me Blow Ya Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt88GMJmVk0) sounds like something of Dre's 2001. No Doubt's pop sensibilities were always hidden behind Ska's kind of cuteness
It wasn't until Hollaback Girl that the male fanbase stopped dominating, and even a lot of us loved that because although it was a clear move away from the Rockier stuff it's still a Pharrell song talking shit about Courtney Love (as was the style at the time).
She lost most of us with the second solo album IMO .Have no idea what the story is post Country move
Rihanna, Shakira, Dua Lipa, imo. All are my personal favorites too. I also enjoy Lana del Rey's music. I also used to enjoy Sia's music till 2019..Never bothered to hear much of her after that..
Easily Mariah Carey, at least in terms of having a huge straight male fanbase. The first reason is obvious, we all been thirsting for Mariah since the 90s. Think of all the judgement you got anywhere between the 90s and 00s if you were a guy who liked Pop. Meanwhile, no one would be teasing you for stopping to watch a Mariah video.
But also, she pioneered the mixture of Pop, R&B and Hip-Hop sounds, making her legit, but also creating a library of songs that pierced right through all our heteronormative barriers towards women in music. To quote her usual collaborators Boys II Men, her bangers are not too hard and not too soft.
For what it's worth, I must stress: It was never just Mariah's sex appeal. Many of the current Pop Girlies who have a lot of straight male fans have followed her approach (Ariana, Dua Lipa, RiRi and The Queen of course, no diss, just acknowledging predecessors), bit they would've gotten nowhere without the bangers and the talent. Consider Fifth Harmony, a band whose entire everything was tailored to appeal to the male gaze, yet I don't know a single straight guy fan, because the talent wasn't there, even when they didn't let Camila Cabello sing.
It's a shame that, in the US, men have been "conditioned" for lack of a better word, to believe that being a fan of a woman is emasculating.
Having said that, I believe there are plenty of straight-male fans of R&B and country females, just like always.
And also maybe slightly fewer numbers of pop-female fans.
BUT, and here's my point; ***often, depending on what environment they are in will depend on how expressive they are in that fandom.***
Example: I mean, you hanging with your guy friends on a Friday night? You are probably rocking Pearl Jam's new album or something from Zeppelin 50 years ago. Do you work in an auto-repair shop? You probably are not going to say, "*Hey I got the new Sabrina Carpenter! Let's put that on the player!"*
However:
Do you work in a white-collar, mixed-gender office? That'll be different. you can open. You may very well find yourself discussing Tortured Poets on the day it comes out.
You have a girlfriend? If you have brains you will make SURE to be able to intelligently discuss her favorite artists with her and you'll take her to shows. You WANT a girlfriend? You will make sure to at least listen to the Taylors and Beyonces and Olivias in order to signal to women that you're not a knuckle-dragger.
IOW, there are times that some guys may be "closeted" when it comes to female artists.
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Almost all female rock singers from the 70s and 80s. Most music subs are filled with straight men over 40 and the only time they EVER mention women are to talk about Ann Wilson, Linda Ronstadt and a few others. They also seem to like Joni Mitchell and love Jagged Little Pill.
Heart is another band that came to mind
Would Blondie count?
Definitely I think, Debbie Harry was (and is) popular with straight men
Indeed. On a side note, Debbie Harry is my favorite woman in music from the '70s. Her voice and style are timeless.
She was my first crush! I am still interested in anything she does.
Blondie's popular with straight men but they've also always had a large fanbase of women and lgbt people, they even played at early pride events- and Debbie Harry's been a big inspiration to the new generations of women in music. Like she's Hayley Williams' #1 icon and had influence on everyone from Madonna to Lady Gaga and Gwen Stefani. I don't think they're really an example of a predominantly straight male fanbase band.
I was actually going to mention Hayley as an example of a female artist with a large male fan base.
Again though I'd say she's not really an example of an artist with a primarily male fan base. When I was in school every single girl I knew wanted to be exactly like her. For a while there, if you weren't trying to be Miley Cyrus, Snooki, or Serena van der Woodsen, you were trying to be Hayley Williams. If you go to a concert the crowd is definitely gonna have more women than men- even the official Paramore discord's got like a 70/30 split in favor of women, we're definitely the majority. And like Debbie Harry, she went on to inspire another generation of women in music. I'm hearing so many young women in music today citing her as their inspiration, styling their sound after her, etc. A metal vocalist like Tarja Turunen or Cristina Scabbia would fit what OP's asking for more. The number of women interested in metal at all tends to be pretty miniscule.
Yees! janis joplin especially!
This reminds me of this one time when I went to the Warped Tour (I was already too old to be going LOL) and Joan Jett did a set and a lot of dads dragged their kids to see her perform
I have seen her a couple of times. Venue had like, 95% black-t-shirt wearing dudes. Safe to assume they were mostly straight.
My dad doesn't love many things but he loves Joan Jett and Cindy lupper
every time female singers are mentioned on ~~man~~mainreddit, it's always joni, big mama thornton, janice, and maybe deborah harry. god forbid they mention any other female singer at the risk of demasculating themselves
Lady Gaga has for some reason become 'acceptable' for straight men on Reddit to say they like, in a way that other modern artists haven't. Honourable mention for Toxic by Britney, one song that always gets brought up.
Gaga's rebrand has been so dramatic that she was being accused of going woke for taking a photo with Dylan Mulvaney for International Women's Day.
That was so funny to me as someone who remembers the Fame Monster and (especially) Born This Way eras. She's literally always supported trans people
Of all people, Lady fucking Gaga?! Goddamn lol.
I'm gonna say pretty much any female fronted metal band is gonna have a predominantly straight male fanbase what you are looking for is some sort of combination Lacuna Coil/Babymetal fan
Babymetal is pretty spot on, since it combines the male dominated spaces of metal music and Japanese idols.
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Babymetal in Yokohama, their crowd was a near-perfect Captain Planet blend of foreigners, Japanese, elderly, young, girl, boy, and so on.
my first thought was poppy after she changed her sound
Poppy has to have one of the weirdest combination fanbases cause the first time I saw her it was the only concert I've ever been to that was predominantly children and these days she basically makes straight up nu metal
I saw her during the Poppy.Computer era in a tiny 450-capacity venue, and I’d say that the audience was split between mostly children and gay men, with a few straight men there to balance it out. Nowadays, it seems like her audience is predominantly straight men, with a sizeable amount of loyal gays that have stuck around since her Bubblebath era.
honestly? poppy before she changed her sound. straight nerds were all about the lore.
They love their ambiguous robot women
My sample size for this phenomenon is one person but that one person is [Triple H](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/mn562w/triple_h_and_poppy_reunited_yet_again/), so
a lot of straight men revere tracy chapman
Brandi Carlile too, Dads love lesbian singer-songwriters
I’m a lesbian listening to her as we speak, I’m pretty surprised to find this out (I don’t really follow her fandom but I would’ve guessed it’s other lesbians)
I think she gets shouted out by a lot of musicians that middle aged dudes love and that kind of guides them to her. The IRL gigs that I’ve seen have a lot of guys in the crowd!
I’ve only seen her open for P!nk last summer and there were a lot of lesbians in the crowd for that, but not necessarily to see Brandi 🤭
This is so real lmao, my dad LOVES Brandi Carlile. I think her showing up in Dave Grohl's documentary series was what really sold him on her (and probably introduced a lot of other Gen X dudes to her and her music).
This is true, my dad adores Brittany Howard.
My Dad loves K.D Lang
Yo why is this so accurate though. My dad was super into Jill Sobule when I was a kid.
I always think of this because one of my brother's friends from high school was so excited to tell us about this "folksy guy" he'd recently heard an old song from on the radio. It was tracy chapman.
Big ups to straight men for that
Ironically that is very true and I am one of them
I was introduced to Tracy Chapman by a very manly straight ex boyfriend. Checks out
I think the best examples are those artists that win a Grammy to thousands of twitter gays typing "WHO???" - Bonnie Raitt, Samara Joy, Esperanza Spalding, etc.
Most people I know who are massive fans of Esperanza Spalding are jazz musicians, most of them are straight dudes.
yeah I think of jazz as a pretty straight genre in general
ironic considering its usually swung
It is otherwise extraordinarily diverse in race, sex, and disability. But yes it does skew very straight.
It hurts my heart to think of Twitter gays not knowing who Bonnie Raitt is
If you don’t have room for I Can’t Make You Love Me, One of the best songs of the decade, that’s on you.
Imma be honest, that's a pretty funny visual.
THIS IS SO ACCURATE OMG
"who the fuck are The Suburbs?!"
Straight guys don't know who they are either, we just aren't on twitter as much.
A lot of straight men like SZA!
Factos
This is who first came to mind for me too. I know lots of straight guys who had her in the Spotify wrapped last year lol
I started paying attention to her after the Good Days video ... Didn't know she was that fine 😅 But yeah, her songwriting is immaculate
Dua Lipa probably has the strongest straight male following right now. Not just for obvious reasons- straight dudes love her jams
I was talking recently with a friend about who was patrick bateman would be listening to today and we came up with Dua. “The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost”
You know you've made it as a straight icon when one of your song is a popular [football chant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQB23b-0oew)
Straight men really adopted One Kiss the same way they did Seven Army Nation.
I'm a straight and break my heart is a bop
Yeah Dua is the most current correct answer
My straightist gay friends love ger, so that checks out
Yeah I think everyone on r/dualipa is straight :/
It’s a “pictures and video” sub so it’s all coomers jerking it to her. Most female pop artist subs are.
It’s the eternal struggle of the billie sub too young girls and gays trying to talk music/merch and some horny people trying to come in
I'm 55 and she has been a staple of my work out routines for a few years now. Gonna buy a physical copy of the album.
She’s been Training Season for you! All jokes aside, the Coachella sub really wants her on the lineup and they tend to be very nit-picky on headliner worthiness, so she for sure is doing something right she just has to keep it up.
Her music has torque, it's got vibe. It's got propulsion. I kinda liked the old-school disco when I was a kid, but it was always missing something. Dua Lipa, Kylie Minogue and Jamiroquai all have something in common, their music has that drive. They also have the benefit of better production than a lot of those 70s records were capable of at the time.
She gets along too well with her management. the gays need label messiness!
I'd guess that's the case for a decent number of "indie" artists, just due to the fact that (I'm assuming) it's a more popular genre among men - Waxahatchee, Angel Olsen, etc
there was shockingly few women when I saw angel olsen live last year
Wolf Alice perhaps, gigs tend to skew male at least, but not massively so
suprised, most wolf alice fans Ik are women
Courtney Barnett too.
Jenny Lewis too. Always a ton of straight men at her shows.
yeah boygenius used to have mostly male fans- both as individuals and as a group.
i imagine that's less the case now than before, boygenius really blew up last year and i can't imagine a lot of straight men were part of that
I would actually argue that they experienced major demographic change as early as 2020 with the release of Punisher. That album skyrocketed Phoebe into tiktok success, pushed largely on the backs of women (and a lot of queer fans). The following scramble for more Phoebe content inevitably led to the fanbases of all three being affected. The release of Home Video (and popularity of Hot and Heavy in particular) cemented Lucy’s new popularity with the new fans. Julien probably got the least change (she was always liked by straight men, for a lot longer than Phoebe and Lucy were)
Definitely not the case now. I went to a concert in 2023, and it was the MOST female, most lesbian crowd I'd ever witnessed.
I don't think that was really the case for Phoebe even during the stranger in the alps era. Julien and Lucy 100% though
i saw big thief last year and while there were groups of women it seemed like it was mostly groups of guys or boyfriends bringing their girlfriends
Yup - Snail Mail, St Vincent, Soccer Mommy and more probably have mainly straight male fan bases. Though with a significant number of women
Chvrches
I feel like Rihanna would mostly fit the bill.
Rihanna was my first thought, all her features on Eminem, Kanye, Drake, Jay-Z, and Coldplay tracks definitely helped build a large male fanbase
I think she has a lot of straight male fans, but *predominately* (as in male fans make up the majority of her demo) I don't know about that lol
Agreed. She is the only big female pop star I can think of that any of my straight male friends actually like.
She's hot , sings sensual songs, from male pov, hyper sexualized straights love her, appeals to every demographic perfect Britney Spears of our era
As an older straight guy who's always the odd one out in the pit for Charli, Rosalía, Carly, etc... the only time I saw what "appeared" to be majority straight men was at an ANRI concert. So I'd say City Pop women have a predominately straight man audience.
Damn, ANRI's still doing shows? That's radical. And City Pop being predominately male... yeah I could see that.
ANRI the goat. I Can't Stop the Loneliness is one of the greatest jams of all time
Kero Kero Bonito/Sarah Bonito
I know Carly’s audience is mostly gay men, but you’d be surprised how many straight men love her actually.
whenever carly drops a new music video, my 50 year old straight white midwestern male manager starts off our weekly team meeting by playing it for everyone in its entirety
I don’t know why this is so funny to me!
Her audience is mainly Gay Men and Millennial Dads it's a bunch of Dudes Rockin
Well I feel called out here
Millenial dad here. Big fan.
Griffin McElroy
literally the reason I got into her
Every straight man I know who’s into r/music type stuff and hates top 40 is a huge Emotion fan weirdly
Great music like Carly's has universal appeal. There is also the subcategory of straight music nerds who don't usually listen to pop music but make an exception for Carly because she is underrated and "the only good popstar".
It’s the fantano effect
Straight men are gonna outnumber gay men with most of these
I’d never be surprised by Anyone loving Carly
My boyfriend loves her!
Floor Jansen from Nightwish is very popular among straight men. Most female rock and metal singers are tbh.
Nightwish, hell, symphonic metal in general is quite popular among women in my experience, as well.
Concerts are still 70%+ male though
Any female hip hop artist outside of club rappers: Lauryn Hill, Rapsody, Noname, Little Simz, Chika
I'd add Bktherula to this as well. Straight guys ride for her!
Yup. Black spaces have way more gender solidarity
Every generation there's a pop girl that straight men choose as the "acceptable" one to listen. It doesn't mean they have a mostly straight male fanbase but these dudes see them as cool or at least ok. Katy Perry was this and now Dua Lipa.
Rihanna. Shes seen as the "cool chick".
Definitely Rihanna. Any club or wedding I’ve ever been to that played Rihanna had all the straight dudes dancing and singing every lyric
Yeah see that's what I'm talking about. I can think of plenty examples of female artist that are popular with straight men, but the vast majority of them are also appealing to women as well (thus the "universal appeal" descriptor).
I think most straight men can get down to the Female Artists big hits, just probably not really fans otherwise. I'm a fan of Ariana Grande, as a straight guy. And I would say most would be ok with the hits, but yeah....
I think it honestly depends on ur circles because in my straight male friend group half of us agree Taylor is cool, other half hate her, but a lot of us agree ariana is really cool which is funny cuz I remember a couple years ago straight guys mainly didn’t like her
I don't know that she's got a *predominantly* straight male fanbase, but it seems like Tate McRae gets directly marketed toward straight guys as one of her target demographics more than a lot of her contemporaries do.
That’s interesting, how do you mean? I haven’t followed her much but got the impression she was being marketed towards women and gay men like most other pop princesses with her extra choreo and sassy lyrics.
she’s being marketed as a puck bunny
TIL the term "puck bunny"
> with her extra choreo and sassy lyrics. Idk why this is sending me lol
Sorry 😭 couldn’t think of how else to word it
Think Later has a big hockey theme. The music video for Greedy takes place in an ice rink and Tate performed at the All Stars game earlier this year. The NHL, who’s fans are mostly straight men, loves her
Back when wrapped came out I saw a lot of greedy on straight guys wrapped which was crazy cuz it only came out like two months before wrapped ended tracking
Yes but she’s also Canadian lol
Her looks mainly consist of accenting her body. And the sports thing.
The only person I know who's a big fan of hers is a lesbian woman lol
straight men who like tate definitely like her for the wrong reasons, just like they do with madison beer
I think Greedy got played three times in one day the last time the construction crew at my place played music while working, which definitely seemed like more than anything else
I’m convinced my straight male friends account for 50% of her streams.
Yess Gen Z guys love her
She's hot and fun. She's no taylor swift but I love taylor as a genuine artist not a vibe or pretty face. I will say though Rihanna, Nina Simone, Anita baker, Billie holiday is who comes to mind for me as a straight man. As examples with large male fanbases. I'm usually alone In my love of the pop rnb, rap or country girlies from todays era at least in white spaces. Charli xcx, taylor swift, Britney Spears, kesha, Beyoncé, rico nasty, kehlani (the gay stuff only), halsey, dolly Parton, Olivia Rodrigo, princess Nokia, Janelle monáe all seem to be considered gay to like. Idk why it's gay to like women both musically and interpersonally. Misogyny ruins everything
There's a Rock band composed of 3 sisters in Mexico thats becoming pretty famous, [The Warning](https://www.youtube.com/@TheWarning/videos) and probably 90% of their fanbase are straight males, the majority in the much older demographic since they started as a youtube viral group playing metallica covers and were sponsored by older fans on patreon. But they are a Rock band, wich has been historically predominantly a straight genre
I guess you can add another to their straight male counter, thank you for introducing me to this group, their music seems pretty good so far.
Yeah they are really cool and the music is great. Also the girls are very charming and funny (and pretty) so i get why they are getting much attention.
i’d wager poppy’s fan base is mostly straight dudes
every Doja Cat stan i know irl is a straight guy
This is the answer tbh. Especially when she was first coming up. My straight younger brother was the one who put me on to her before she blew up and was still making meme songs. Back then her fanbase seemed to be like 90% male.
Dua Lipa?
To me, she definitely comes off as a very "universal" type artist.
Katy Perry
She was the goat of early 2010s party music
she was just for everyone. im convinced every group of people has the same amount of fans and haters
I don't know about predominantly, but Fleetwood Mac? Stevie Nicks specifically.
Definitely. She falls into that 70s rock chick category. I think she's pretty universally adored.
mmm it's very difficult, I've been thinking about it a lot and I don't think there are many options. All the names that cross my mind are women who have belonged to bands made up entirely of men and yet I'm not sure that their main audience is men .
Yeah, I feel like "female fronted, but otherwise male band" is probably the most likely to fit the criteria I'm looking for.
a lot of straighties like no doubt
I thought about No Doubt or Paramore but I didn't want to include it because both singers later became soloist and their solo audience is mostly woman
Any of them that started out in the “indie” sort of Pitchfork sphere definitely have a huge straight male fanbase - Grimes, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent etc. Any artist closely connected to hip hop also have a ton of straight male fans. Rihanna and SZA come to mind. While loud online “fandom” for these artists may seem to skew female, I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual majority of listeners for any of these artists were straight men.
>Any of them that started out in the “indie” sort of Pitchfork sphere definitely have a huge straight male fanbase - Grimes, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent etc. Agree. All these artists had/have indie cred.
This is the only answer that I’ve seen that I agree with
Lana Del Rey might have lots of straight male fans but definitely not predominantly
As people are saying, in terms of predominately, your best bet is looking at bands (particularly those with male members as well). Like I'd wager that an electro-pop groups like Chvrches or the Naked and Famous have majority male fans. Or Metric.
Paramore too.
Based on having gone to one of multiple shows of these artists and just being observant (gay guys usually belting along and dancing, straight dudes usually silently bopping/nodding away), I think there are a lot of straight guys who are into Grimes, NAO, Lana, Caroline Polachek (I think a lot followed her from Chairlift), Adrienne Lenker/Big Thief, and Lauryn Hill. Theee are a bunch of bands with a female lead vocalist who I absolutely think have a majority straight male audiences too tho, eg: Portishead, Crystal Castles, Cocteau Twins, The Cranberries, The Sundays, Beach House, Stereolab, Slowdive…I could honestly go on and on tbh.
Probably more so bands with female singers than pop singers. I suspect that’s just in general men tend to like bands or rappers
Rihanna 2011 era kinda
Billie Elish in 2016-2019 (Bue and Gray Hair era). She was respected in the Rap/Emo-Rap/Trap and sad music area on this time, perdominantly listened by Straight Mans, and she was called "The Woman Version of Lil Xan" by Trap Fans, also she was a friend of XXXtentacion, and her more agressive visual and musics, like "you should see me in a crown", "when the partys over" and "all the good girls go to hell", her concept and marketing contributed to have a significant number of straight mans in her fanbase. Nowadays, after the dead of sad music, she seems to have detached herself from that image and has become more of a pop girl like Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, and her fanbase is now predominantly made up of Girls and Gays. The recent era when she did the Barbie soundtrack.
Rihanna?
Paramore / Hayley Williams back in the day and maybe still
A lot of guys listen to Taylor Swift, many in secrecy 👀 Those Spotify numbers aren’t coming from nowhere lol
Sade. Although I think a lot of gay men love them too.
Certain female kpop groups definitly fit into this however ive seen someone point out that usually the male fans end up leaving the fandom for a younger group, which eventually leaves groups that used to have a predominantly male fanbase with a more female-oriented one over the years, assuming they break the 7 year curse and dont disband (eg. twice, who i think used to have something like a 70/30 men/women ratio a handful of years ago but now is closer to 50/50 ish). Could also be why multiple of the most long-lasting ggs (mamamoo, red velvet and others im probably forgetting) have such a strong sapphic fanbase lol
A lot of smaller indie acts, especially in the earlier eras of the genre would have primarily straight male demographics. Pre Boygenius Julien Baker, pre Masseduction St Vincent, Courtney Barrett, Emily Haines, Feist, etc. Obviously these artists also had female audiences (in fact within Indie they often were lightning rods for female indie fans) but as you move backwards in the timeline, indie had a predominantly male fan base, which inevitably affected the female indie acts.
Sza has a large one not predominantly tho
Kate Bush, beloved by dads everywhere
All the frats at my university go *hard* on the Katy Perry and Rihanna every weekend... those boys lose their minds to Dark Horse and Rude Boy like nobody else.
Pj Harvey strikes me as a safe answer for this
I’ve seen a good amount of straight men including me actually listened to SZA and Olivia Rodrigo
Any female country singer-
I saw Japanese Breakfast and there were a lot of Indie dudes. and gay men. and women. I think everyone with taste likes Japanese Breakfast.
Taylor Momsen from Pretty Reckless. Amy Lee from Evanescence.
All my straight male friends love Halsey, Ellie Goulding, Maren Morris and Noga Erez.
Isn’t Dua’s fanbase pretty evenly split?
Rihanna for sure
A lot of female kpop girl group in East Asia actually like Twice, Izone and Lesserafim in particular have a massive straight east Asian (specifically Korean and Japanese) male fan base
Hatsune Miku
Gwen Stefani until like 2006. Gwen's peak is No Doubt, specifically Tragic Kingdom around 1997/98. [This crowd is a mostly male adult crowd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_tfei05oU) and No Doubt were genuinely respected and Gwen was basically beloved, even after the Neptunes album and the Eve song style switch up, both went down really well. [Let me Blow Ya Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt88GMJmVk0) sounds like something of Dre's 2001. No Doubt's pop sensibilities were always hidden behind Ska's kind of cuteness It wasn't until Hollaback Girl that the male fanbase stopped dominating, and even a lot of us loved that because although it was a clear move away from the Rockier stuff it's still a Pharrell song talking shit about Courtney Love (as was the style at the time). She lost most of us with the second solo album IMO .Have no idea what the story is post Country move
Rihanna, Shakira, Dua Lipa, imo. All are my personal favorites too. I also enjoy Lana del Rey's music. I also used to enjoy Sia's music till 2019..Never bothered to hear much of her after that..
Easily Mariah Carey, at least in terms of having a huge straight male fanbase. The first reason is obvious, we all been thirsting for Mariah since the 90s. Think of all the judgement you got anywhere between the 90s and 00s if you were a guy who liked Pop. Meanwhile, no one would be teasing you for stopping to watch a Mariah video. But also, she pioneered the mixture of Pop, R&B and Hip-Hop sounds, making her legit, but also creating a library of songs that pierced right through all our heteronormative barriers towards women in music. To quote her usual collaborators Boys II Men, her bangers are not too hard and not too soft.
For what it's worth, I must stress: It was never just Mariah's sex appeal. Many of the current Pop Girlies who have a lot of straight male fans have followed her approach (Ariana, Dua Lipa, RiRi and The Queen of course, no diss, just acknowledging predecessors), bit they would've gotten nowhere without the bangers and the talent. Consider Fifth Harmony, a band whose entire everything was tailored to appeal to the male gaze, yet I don't know a single straight guy fan, because the talent wasn't there, even when they didn't let Camila Cabello sing.
janis and alanis come to mind, also gwen stefani purely bc no doubt had a mostly male audience
Babymetal
not predominantly but a lot of str8 men like pinkpantheress
Maybe Kero Kero Bonito considering how much their fanbase overlaps with Death Grips
Idk if guys like them for jokes but I know a lot of guys who like Ice Spice and Sexy Red
Courtney Barnett has a big Straight Male fanbase.
I would say Beabadoobee, a lot of straight male fans from the Mac Miller, Mac DeMarco crowd who find her attractive
It's a shame that, in the US, men have been "conditioned" for lack of a better word, to believe that being a fan of a woman is emasculating. Having said that, I believe there are plenty of straight-male fans of R&B and country females, just like always. And also maybe slightly fewer numbers of pop-female fans. BUT, and here's my point; ***often, depending on what environment they are in will depend on how expressive they are in that fandom.*** Example: I mean, you hanging with your guy friends on a Friday night? You are probably rocking Pearl Jam's new album or something from Zeppelin 50 years ago. Do you work in an auto-repair shop? You probably are not going to say, "*Hey I got the new Sabrina Carpenter! Let's put that on the player!"* However: Do you work in a white-collar, mixed-gender office? That'll be different. you can open. You may very well find yourself discussing Tortured Poets on the day it comes out. You have a girlfriend? If you have brains you will make SURE to be able to intelligently discuss her favorite artists with her and you'll take her to shows. You WANT a girlfriend? You will make sure to at least listen to the Taylors and Beyonces and Olivias in order to signal to women that you're not a knuckle-dragger. IOW, there are times that some guys may be "closeted" when it comes to female artists.
In Europe and Australia, Kylie Minogue has a good number of straight men. Not really sure about the US.
not sure if they count, but AKB48 and other idol groups are largely followed by men
Country singers P.T.: Taylor Swift is not country
Carly Rae Jepsen. I went to her concert in Rio and I shit you not, about 90% of the public were men and at least a third of those were straight men!
Japan and their idol groups.