Here are some great angry female music stars: I think The Donnas rock, Gossip kicks ass, Arch Enemy will burn your ears, Spinnerette (the Distillers too, same singer, different band) knows how to rock and Otep will just plan make you crank it up to 11.

What happened to angry male music stars? Look at the angry rock song list we put together. How much of that was new? The anger is out there, but right now, it is not anger's turn to be mainstream.

lady gaga is pretty angry btw

My wife gets angry at me every now and again. And she plays music.

Course, she's no star...

To be honest at some point the whole thing becomes twee. JJ's guitar has a sticker that's like "girls kick ass." Yeah, and therefore.. what? There's an element of immaturity to it.

Another thing is that the writer has a strange cocktail of what she defines as 'angry' music. I don't think it's fruitful to mix up Joan Jett, PJ Harvey, Hole and Kathleen Hanna in that way frankly.

How is PJ Harvey 'angry' in a political way? She's just intense. If you're going with that then the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are angry too and they're still doing their thing.

It's a good article though, what I said above is more like a response than a criticism.

I'm not exactly a student of mainstream (I was going to write 'corporate') pop music history, but my impression is that angry women have been the exception, rather than the rule.