Ideological skirmishes over the motives and obligations of Carpenter’s music include both sincere interrogation of its feminism and smirking counteractive reprisals to that scrutiny. It’s easy to ignite a smoldering batch of think pieces and podcast rebukes in the year of conservatives making Sydney Sweeney an emblem of imagined liberal outrage.... See more

“I was doing a concert in Groningen and I needed to prepare a band, there was a bass player and we played a couple of songs, then I said something about the number of bars and he corrected me. I felt like that it wasn’t really about that, it was more the fact he didn’t trust my knowledge because I am a woman and he didn’t like that I was the leade... See more