Talking about Riot Grrrl groups, the first thing comes in to my head is their awful music and untalented singer. Personal, as a foreigner, understand the lyrics in English is already hard enough, and with all other noises that in their music, makes its even harder to understand what they're really singing about. However, as a groups of women whose get lots of influence from Punk rock, I think the way there perform is somehow understandable. As lots of young girls stick together, just like today, lots of girls want to be like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga, in Riot Grrrl ages, they wish to be like all those punk stars, but sometimes they may just come across the line to much, just like some criticism about that they are too young that they don't even understand about all the rape, sex abuse, or this whole feminism thing. But the truth is, even they're still young, even they still may not understand the whole picture about the world, even they're females, their voice could still be spread out and been heard by others.
However, the way of their performance may sometime be too far from the main stream, which kind of set some negative impact on the whole feminism movement, audiences think that the feminism is exactly like those Riot Grrrls, which simply just some lame noise come together. And society sometimes may just focus too much on talking about the noises that they sing, but not the goal of these movement, which is to get the feminism moving forward.
I think Riot Grrrls realized this problem and later their musics are somehow closer to the mainstream music, and in the same time, it still express their voice. For example the Spice Girls and their "girl power" message. Now I can finally understand their lyric at least.
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