Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:
Lale Andersen
Marian Anderson
Signe Toly Anderson
Julie Andrews
LaVerne Andrews
Maxene Andrews
Patty Andrews
Ann-Margret
Joan Armatrading
Dorothy Ashby
Joan Baez
Pearl Bailey
Belle Baker
Josephine Baker
LaVern Baker
Florence Ballard
Brigitte Bardot
Eileen Barton
Fontella Bass
Shirley Bassey
Maggie Bell
Lola Beltran
Ivy Benson
Gladys Bentley
Jane Birkin
Cilla Black
Ronee Blakley
Teresa Brewer
Anne Briggs
Ruth Brown
Joyce Bryant
Vashti Bunyan
Kate Bush
Montserrat Caballe
Maria Callas
Blanche Calloway
Wendy Carlos
Cathy Carr
Raffaella Carra
Diahann Carroll
Karen Carpenter
June Carter Cash
Charo
Cher
Meg Christian
Gigliola Cinquetti
Petula Clark
Merry Clayton
Patsy Cline
Rosemary Clooney
Natalie Cole
Judy Collins
Alice Coltrane
Betty Comden
Barbara Cook
Rita Coolidge
Gal Costa
Ida Cox
Karen Dalton
Marie-Louise Damien
Betty Davis
Jinx Dawson
Doris Day
Blossom Dearie
Kiki Dee
Lucienne Delyle
Sandy Denny
Jackie DeShannon
Gwen Dickey
Marlene Dietrich
Marie-France Dufour
Julie Driscoll
Yvonne Elliman
Cass Elliot
Maureen Evans
Agnetha Faeltskog
Marianne Faithfull
Mimi Farina
Max Feldman
Gracie Fields
Ella Fitzgerald
Roberta Flack
Lita Ford
Connie Francis
Aretha Franklin
France Gall
Judy Garland
Crystal Gayle
Gloria Gaynor
Bobbie Gentry
Astrud Gilberto
Donna Jean Godchaux
Lesley Gore
Eydie Gorme
Margo Guryan
Sheila Guyse
Nina Hagen
Francoise Hardy
Emmylou Harris
Debbie Harry
Annie Haslam
Billie Holiday
Mary Hopkin
Lena Horne
Helen Humes
Betty Hutton
Janis Ian
Mahalia Jackson
Wanda Jackson
Etta James
Joan Jett
Bessie Jones
Etta Jones
Gloria Jones
Grace Jones
Shirley Jones
Tamiko Jones
Janis Joplin
Barbara Keith
Carole King
Eartha Kitt
Chaka Khan
Hildegard Knef
Gladys Knight
Sonja Kristina
Patti Labelle
Cleo Laine
Nicolette Larson
Daliah Lavi
Vicky Leandros
Peggy Lee
Rita Lee
Alis Lesley
Barbara Lewis
Abbey Lincoln
Melba Liston
Julie London
Darlene Love
Lulu
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Barbara Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Vera Lynn
Siw Malmkvist
Lata Mangeshkar
Linda McCartney
Kate McGarrigle
Christie McVie
Bette Midler
Jean Millington
June Millington
Liza Minnelli
Carmen Miranda
Joni Mitchell
Liz Mitchell
Marion Montgomery
Lee Morse
Nana Mouskouri
Anne Murray
Wenche Myhre
Holly Near
Olivia Newton-John
Stevie Nicks
Nico
Laura Nyro
Virginia O’Brien
Odetta
Yoko Ono
Shirley Owens
Patti Page
Dolly Parton
Freda Payne
Michelle Phillips
Edith Piaf
Ruth Pointer
Leontyne Price
Suzi Quatro
Gertrude Rainey
Bonnie Raitt
Carline Ray
Helen Reddy
Della Reese
Martha Reeves
June Richmond
Jeannie C. Riley
Minnie Riperton
Jean Ritchie
Chita Rivera
Clara Rockmore
Linda Ronstadt
Marianne Rosenberg
Diana Ross
Anna Russell
Melanie Safka
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Samantha Sang
Pattie Santos
Hazel Scott
Doreen Shaffer
Jackie Shane
Marlena Shaw
Sandie Shaw
Dinah Shore
Judee Sill
Carly Simon
Nina Simone
Nancy Sinatra
Siouxsie Sioux
Grace Slick
Bessie Smith
Mamie Smith
Patti Smith
Ethel Smyth
Mercedes Sosa
Ronnie Spector
Dusty Springfield
Mavis Staples
Candi Staton
Barbra Streisand
Poly Styrene
Maxine Sullivan
Donna Summer
Pat Suzuki
Norma Tanega
Tammi Terrell
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Big Mama Thornton
Mary Travers
Moe Tucker
Tina Turner
Twiggy
Bonnie Tyler
Sylvia Tyson
Sarah Vaughan
Sylvie Vartan
Mariska Veres
Akiko Wada
Claire Waldoff
Jennifer Warnes
Dee Dee Warwick
Dionne Warwick
Dinah Washington
Ethel Waters
Elisabeth Welch
Kitty Wells
Mary Wells
Juliane Werding
Tina Weymouth
Cris Williamson
Ann Wilson
Mary Wilson
Nancy Wilson
Anna Mae Winburn
Syreeta Wright
Tammy Wynette
Nan Wynn
Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!
If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.
I tried to compile some of the female musicians and female fronted bands I like. I didn't include extremely well known bands like Arch Enemy or Bikini Kill in this list, since you probably know them anyway. I don't know all of the listed bands super well, but tried to at least roughly backround check them.
I will add to the list in the future probably (I especially want to add more acts in different languages) and would love to hear your suggestions! ☺
Metal
Myrkur (Folk/Black Metal, female solo artist)
Ashtar (Black Metal, female solo artist since 2023)
Gallhammer (Black/Doom Metal, female duo)
Astarte (Black Metal, all female band)
Asagraum (Black Metal, all female band)
Chelsea Wolfe (Noise Rock/Doom Metal, female solo artist, also part of female duo Mrs. Piss)
King Woman (Doom Metal/Experimental Noise, solo project of Kristina Esfandiari, who has a bunch of other projects as well)
Darkher (Gothic Metal, female fronted)
Folterkammer* (Black/Opera Metal, female fronted)
Bathsheba (Doom Metal, female fronted)
Hela (Doom Metal, female fronted)
Generally if you are looking for female fronted metal you are most likely to find it in Doom, Gothic, Folk, Power and Opera Metal.
*Disclaimer about Folterkammer because they sing in German: Personally I love their first album (Die Lederpredigt) with it's varying lyrical themes, many of which are about some sort of malicious female devil. However the singles from "Weibermacht" (Women's Might) seems to be mostly about BDSM, which is very disappinting to me personally.
Rock/Punk
Deap Valley (Alt/Garage Rock, all female band)
Gully Boys (Indie/Punk/Garage, all female band)
Nostalghia (Alt Rock, female solo artist)
Emma Ruth Rundle (Post-Rock, female solo artist)
Jack off Jill (Alt Rock/Riot Grrrl, all female band)
Queenadreena (Alt Rock, almost all female band)
The Huntress and Holder of Hands (Post-Metal/Alt Rock, partly female band)
Angelfish (Alt rock, female fronted by Shirley Manson of Garbage)
Rosegarden Funeral Party (Post-Punk, female fronted)
Throwing Muses (Alt Rock, female fronted)
Darkwave/Electronica
Hante. (Darkwave, female solo artist, also part of all female duo Minuit Machine)
Kælan Mikla (Darkwave/Coldwave, all female band)
Void Vision (Darkwave/synth, female solo artist)
Sally Dige (Darkwave, female solo artist)
Winter Severity Index (Coldwave, all female band)
Alice Glass (Electronic, female solo artist)
Foie Gras (Noise/Drone, female solo project)
Honorable Mentions & Artists I Didn't Know Where Else To Put
(I tried to make these as in order as possible. To see my current reads, check me out on Goodreads or Storygraph. Here's the twitter thread this was adapted off of.)
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
a larry fanfiction (I'm embarrased but i'm counting it)
Color Decoder by Dorothye Parker
The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
A Court of Thornes and Roses by Sarah J Maas (audiobook parts 1 and 2)
another larry fanfiction SHUT UP
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James SHUT UP
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
The Leading Brain by Friederike Fabritius
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmor
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Sold On A Monday by Kristina McMorris
Heartstopper Vol 1
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Wicked King by Holly Black
larry fanfiction SILENCE
If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
Trixie and Katya's Guide To Modern Womanhood
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Bunny by Mona Awad
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
My Year Of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Flight by Lynn Steger Strong
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Teen Mom’s Amber Portwood Reunites With Daughter Leah After 7 Months
Amber Portwood’s birthday wishes came true when she was able to reunite with her daughter Leah after months apart.
On the Thursday, August 22, episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, cameras rolled as Gary Shirley and his wife, Kristina Shirley, invited Amber, 34, over for a family BBQ.
“It’s been seven months,” Gary, 37, told costars Maci Bookout and Catelynn Lowell in reference to the last time…
What Amber Portwood Thinks of Gary Shirley’s Wife Possibly Adopting Leah
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic ; Courtesy of Gary Shirley/Instagram
Amber Portwood isn’t on board with the idea that her daughter Leah could be adopted by Gary Shirley’s wife Kristina.
“Having Kristina adopt Leah would never happen on Amber’s watch,” a source exclusively shared with Us Weekly. “She wants to be in Leah’s life. She is not looking to hand off parental responsibility to somebody else.”
On…
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Kathmandu - Summer Never Sleeps from Daniel Warwick on Vimeo.
Music / 'Jimmy, Renda-Se‘ by Tom Zé
Director / Daniel Warwick
DoP / Jan David Günther
Production Company / Scoundrel
Exec Producer / Adrian Shapiro
Producer / Morgan Benson Taylor
Editor / Adam Wills
Client / Kathmandu
Client CCO / Eva Barrett
Client Head of Global Brand Comms / Michaela Clark
Client Global Head of Social Media / Shailyn Shah
Creative Agency / Special Group New Zealand
Chief Creative Officer / Tony Bradbourne
Executive Producer / Sally Lankshear
Senior Producer / Casey King
Executive Creative Director / Lisa Fedyszyn & Jonathan McMahon
Creative Director / David Shirley
Associate Creative Director / Julia Ferrier
Storyboards / Otto Wiezorek
Cast
Duc Jeremy Vu
Oscar Kapoya
Bobbie Twaddle
Julia Aguilar
Tjaša Žibert (The fantastic Mrs Fox)
Abiola Efunshile
Egshing Varga
Eva Mauricio
Kani Obelga
Matej Pusnik (Mr Merman)
1st AD / Nikolaus Sauer
2nd AD / Nataša Uzunović
Choreographer / Erik Bukovnik
Service Production / Bas Productions
Service Exec Producer / Andrej Caruso
Line Producer / Luka Jauh
Production Manager / Patrik Šimenc
Production Coordinator / Martina Crnkovic
Unit/Set PA / Sebastjan Logar
Unit/Set PA / Blaž Pogačar
TC/Prod. Driver #1 / Andrej Repovž
Production Designer / Miha Knific & Lara Štefančič
Art Director / Lara Štefančič
Prop on Set / Žan Kalan
Stylist / Tina Tanko
Stylist Assistant / Suzana Bićanić
Make Up Artist / Nastja Pestivšek
Make Up Artist Assistant / Kristina Mandić
Hair Stylist / Borut Novak
1st AC / Pavel Kurak
Loader / Jan Skriecka
2nd AC / Luka Podobnikar
Video Assist / Noel Šimenc
Video Assist / Jernej Valenčič
Gaffer / Jernej Prebil
Best Boy / Marko Perne
Electrician / Jani Podmilšak
Electrician / Marjan Vidmar
Electrician / Dušan Praznik
Electrician / Jurij Wolgemut
Electrician / Jernej Korenčan
Electrician / Jon Prebil
Electrician / Urh Cerovnik
Light Operator / David
Crane Operator / Luka Zdešar
Key Grip / Rok Grdin
Grip / Ivan Radeljak
Grip / Aljaž Založnik
SFX Master / Aleš Šmuc
SFX / Jan Januš
Animal Wrangler / Jože Ilc
SOME / Anže Lovšin
Sound Master / Martin Jelovšek
Catering Coordinator / Jernej Konda
Craft / Rok Vengust
Craft / Sara Ogrizek
Chef / Jaka Hergeršič
Chef Assistant / Petra Skopec
Driver / Franc Vidmar
Post Production / Bepic Berlin
Creative VFX Supervisor & Partner / Basti Konradt
Post & VFX Producer / Lion Graf
VFX Artists:
Motion Graphics / Tulio Inoue
Flame Artist / Chris Weingart
Cartoon Animation / Laurie Herman
Endshot Painting / Paula Blesa
Colourist / Sarah Salzmann
Post Production:
Mario Borgmeier
Milan Braune
Soundmix / Stefan Kraatz
Sound Producer / Maurice Krämer
Special Thanks to
Andrea Roman & Zauberberg
Dirk Kübler Filmversicherung Berlin
Jakob Rühle
Well, everyone, we've just concluded the first round of the Miss Billboard Tourney. Thank you all for participating thus far! Congratulations to the following, who are advancing to Round Two:
Lale Andersen
Julie Andrews
Patty Andrews
Joan Armatrading
Dorothy Ashby
Joan Baez
Pearl Bailey
Josephine Baker
LaVern Baker
Florence Ballard
Eileen Barton
Shirley Bassey
Lola Beltran
Teresa Brewer
Anne Briggs
Ruth Brown
Joyce Bryant
Kate Bush
Maria Callas
Blanche Calloway
Wendy Carlos
Diahann Carroll
Karen Carpenter
Charo
Cher
Gigliola Cinquetti
Petula Clark
Merry Clayton
Patsy Cline
Judy Collins
Rita Coolidge
Gal Costa
Betty Davis
Doris Day
Lucienne Delyle
Jackie DeShannon
Marlene Dietrich
Julie Driscoll
Cass Elliot
Agnetha Faeltskog
Marianne Faithfull
Mimi Farina
Ella Fitzgerald
Roberta Flack
Connie Francis
Aretha Franklin
Judy Garland
Crystal Gayle
Gloria Gaynor
Bobbie Gentry
Lesley Gore
Eydie Gorme
Margo Guryan
Sheila Guyse
Annie Haslam
Billie Holiday
Betty Hutton
Wanda Jackson
Joan Jett
Etta Jones
Gloria Jones
Grace Jones
Janis Joplin
Eartha Kitt
Chaka Khan
Gladys Knight
Sonja Kristina
Patti Labelle
Cleo Laine
Barbara Lewis
Abbey Lincoln
Julie London
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Loretta Lynn
Lata Mangeshkar
Linda McCartney
Christie McVie
Jean Millington
Liza Minnelli
Carmen Miranda
Stevie Nicks
Nico
Laura Nyro
Odetta
Patti Page
Dolly Parton
Freda Payne
Ruth Pointer
Leontyne Price
Suzi Quatro
Bonnie Raitt
Carline Ray
June Richmond
Jean Ritchie
Clara Rockmore
Linda Ronstadt
Diana Ross
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Hazel Scott
Marlena Shaw
Nina Simone
Nancy Sinatra
Grace Slick
Mamie Smith
Patti Smith
Mercedes Sosa
Ronnie Spector
Barbra Streisand
Poly Styrene
Maxine Sullivan
Donna Summer
Pat Suzuki
Tammi Terrell
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Big Mama Thornton
Mary Travers
Tina Turner
Bonnie Tyler
Sarah Vaughan
Akiko Wada
Dionne Warwick
Mary Wells
Tina Weymouth
Cris Williamson
Ann Wilson
Mary Wilson
Nancy Wilson
Syreeta Wright
The aforementioned ladies are accepting propaganda for their next posts. To give folks some time to prepare any sort of written/visual/audio propaganda for submission to my asks, Round Two will begin at midnight PST on July 10th.
You Found Out Your Partner is Having an Affair—Now What?
Discovering an affair can be a painful and confusing experience. Discovering amid a global pandemic can be even worse. And if you’ve been cheated on before, it can trigger an emotional response characteristic of PTSD.
You probably want to run for the exit, but don’t leave the relationship just yet. In many cases couples can recover from an affair, and even come out stronger on the other side. At NCCT, we’ve helped over 1,000 couples over the last 10 years navigate turbulent waters. There is hope if both partners are willing to put in the work.
Before deciding how to move forward in your relationship, however, it can be helpful to understand what cheating is and why people cheat.
What is considered cheating?
There are different types of cheating, some more hurtful than others. Yes, sleeping with someone outside the relationship (without permission) is cheating, but so is the private, ongoing flirty text conversation with a coworker. Emotional affairs are affairs, too.
These days, thanks to technology, people don’t even need to meet up to cheat. More Americans are having “virtual affairs” during quarantine, according to an article published by the University of Tennessee Knoxville psychologists Kristina Coop Gordon and Erica A. Mitchell. The stress of COVID-19 is putting a strain on relationships. Instead of turning toward their partners, people are either turning to dating apps to pursue secret relationships or social media to rekindle old ones. Researchers at the Kinsey Institute surveyed 1,000 married people between 30 and 50 years old and found in their preliminary results that 13% have contacted an ex-partner during the pandemic.
Ultimately, cheating is defined by secret-keeping. If a partner doesn’t know about it, then it’s a betrayal of their trust. As a general rule, people should ask themselves, “Would I say this or do this in front of my partner?” If the answer is no, then a boundary is probably being crossed.
Why do people cheat?
There are different philosophies in the field of couples therapy about why people cheat. Two of the most popular come from John Gottman and Esther Perel.
Gottman believes in symptom theory, which means cheating is a symptom of the relationship. In essence, people cheat because they’re lonely. The process begins when people start to make what Caryl Rusbult calls “negative comparisons” about their partner with other people, whether real or imagined. They think to themselves, “I could do better.”
He references the work of Shirley Glass, who found that most affairs are not caused by lust and didn’t start off with the plan of having an affair. 82% of the people she studied who had affairs started out being social acquaintances, neighbors, or workplace colleagues with their future affair partners. These “affairs of the heart” are characterized by secrecy, emotional intimacy, and sexual chemistry.
Perel, on the other hand, believes a crisis of identity causes affairs. Instead of cheating because they’re lonely, people cheat to find themselves. They’re not looking for another person, they’re looking for another self. A good relationship is no guarantee against infidelity, in her opinion. Otherwise, how do we explain why people in happy relationships cheat? You can watch her TED Talk on the subject here.
Where do you go from here?
With the divorce rate around 50% for first-time marriages, many of us are going to have more than one long term relationship or marriage in our lifetime. So while the first relationship is over in the aftermath of an affair, a second one can be built with the same person.
At NCCT, our approach to affair recovery is rooted in grief, particularly to help couples grieve the loss of the relationship they had. There’s no going back. The question then is whether they’re going to forgive, which is inspired by Desmond Tutu’s teachings in The Book of Forgiving. We focus on sitting with grief because often couples want to move past it quickly, when in reality, it’s a process that takes time to heal from.
For the initiator of the betrayal, we emphasize the importance of tolerating and staying with their partner’s grieving process. In his audiobook Relationship Rx, Stan Tatkin says the person who had the affair has to be prepared to be both the hero and the villain. They’re the hero because they get to make it better. They get to sign up for showing up and being there for their partner, which is an odd role to be in because simultaneously, they’re the one who inflicted the wound. For the initiator, the work is around guilt, and the appropriate response is to make amends and be accountable.
In addition to working with grief, we also help couples form a new narrative that has a deeper understanding of how the affair occurred so that it doesn’t happen again. This is particularly relevant for the initiator because frequently, there’s a pattern of conflict avoidance and not being forthcoming that occurs before an affair.
We support Stan Tatkin’s idea that all couples benefit from creating a shared contract, which outlines the basic rules to govern a relationship. He advocates for keeping each principle short and sweet, and that couples emphasize mutuality. In the aftermath of infidelity, couples need to talk about what they want their contract to be around fidelity. What is considered a betrayal? And what’s the penalty if it happens again?
As the 17th-century samurai and poet Mizuta Masahide once wrote, “Barn’s burnt down, now I can see the moon.” We can help you see the path forward. We’re offering online couples therapy intensives during COVID-19 as an alternative to weekly couples therapy sessions. It’s the equivalent of three months worth of weekly therapy concentrated into just a few days. An online intensive is hard work, and it can feel scary, but it’s worth the investment and can get your relationship back on track.
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Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Looks So Grown Up In New 14th Birthday Photos
Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Looks So Grown Up In New 14th Birthday Photos
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Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley‘s daughter Leah just turned 14 and looks so grown up! The teen, whose birth was documented on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant back in 2009, posed for several silly photos with her dad, in an Instagram post he shared in honor of her special day on Nov. 12. Her little sister Emilee, 6, whom Gary shares with wife Kristina Shirley, was…
Amber Portwood Wouldn’t Support Gary Shirley’s Wife Adopting Leah
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Amber Portwood isn’t on board with the concept that her daughter Leah could possibly be adopted by Gary Shirley’s spouse Kristina.
“Having Kristina undertake Leah would by no means occur on Amber’s watch,” a supply solely shared with Us Weekly. “She needs to be in Leah’s life. She is just not trying to hand off parental duty to someone…