Famous Gen Z women are embracing female rage and starting an ‘angry’ new trend
There’s a new trend that famous young women have embraced and it makes it clear that Generation Z aren’t afraid of upsetting people.
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Gen Z women have no problem calling men’s bad behaviour out on a mass scale and the trend is unashamedly taking over.
The pop girlies have spoken and no skinny white boy who has wronged them is remotely safe.
Maisie Peters, Sabrina Carpenter, Kelsea Ballerini, Olivia Rodrigo and even Australia’s own Gretta Ray are releasing music about the men that have upset them.
Female rage is finally in fashion and it looks good on the women wearing it.
Young women are no longer afraid to look “angry” anymore and it is changing music.
Ray just released the poppy take down Don’t Date the Teenager, a song with a feel-good beat with some choice words about her older ex.
Peter’s song History of Man is going viral on TikTok as she plunges into the complexities of liking men while being deeply aware of the patriarchy.
“He stole our youth and promised heaven. The men start wars, yet Troy hates Helen,” she croons.
Ballerini is in her divorced era having recently split with her Aussie husband Morgan Evans and her latest EP is a deep-dive into how their seemingly perfect relationship went horribly wrong.
“Were you blindsided? Or were you just blind?” she asks.
Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo burst onto the scene and went from Disney child star to A-lister with her single Drivers License.
Her break-up anthem turned her into a huge star and she’s followed it up with her latest single Vampire that takes jabs at a man that was “sucking her dry.”
Then there’s Carpenter.
Her image was pulled through the mud because it is widely believed she was the “blonde girl” that Olivia Rodrigo was singing about in Driver’s License.
“And you’re probably with that blonde girl. Who always made me doubt,” she sang.
Rodrigo had dated her co-star Joshua Bassett and they broke up, then dated Carpenter.
Carpenter was famously trolled over it and basically dubbed ‘the other woman’. But, instead of taking the hate lying down, she turned that experience into music where she slammed the way she was treated.
“Tell me who I am. Guess I don’t have a choice, all because I liked a boy,” she wrote.
The ladies have plenty to say and they are actually saying it – and people are loving it.
The response shows there’s been a huge shift from when Taylor Swift burst onto the scene in the early 2000s with her curly hair and confessional lyrics and it opened up a bloodbath of misogyny.
Her music connected with young women because she was vulnerable about the highs and lows of dating and falling in love.
She was a pop bathed Stevie Nicks and the young women ate it up because they were starving for it.
Yet Swift was often mocked for that kind of storytelling and memes were shared about why a man would want to date a woman that could rinse him in a song.
Swift called out that culture in 2014 during a segment on an Aussie radio show, pointing out she was treated differently then her male contemporaries.
“You’re going to have people who are going to say, ‘Oh, you know, like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends.’ And I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take,” she said.
“No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says that about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life, and no one raises the red flag there.”
Fast-forward to 2023 and she’s successfully squashed that narrative and may have just become the most famous and influential songwriter in the world. I think we all know that trying to snag Swift tickets has become a high stakes sport.
Now, there’s a new wave of female singers and songwriters climbing the ranks and they’ve made it clear they aren’t prepared to just look pretty and sing about sexy things.
They aren’t marketing themselves as cool girls that don’t get their feelings hurt and just want to shake their hips.
No, they are pouring out their hearts, taking aim at the men that have hurt them and making it clear these stories are worth telling.
It is the sound women have been waiting for.
Originally published as Famous Gen Z women are embracing female rage and starting an ‘angry’ new trend
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