UnMASKing Masculinity, Music Trivia Edition 🎶

SUMMARY

It’s our first episode of the year and we had to start it off right (Remoy doesn’t think so) with a game! Your hosts are joined by the illustrious German Villegas, podbrother and host of Modern Manhood, to play our new game Paroles de Patriarchy!

• Samantha does a “dramatic reading” of a few songs spanning genres and eras, and German and Remoy guess what they are. But most importantly, they answer the question, are these songs masking or unmasking masculinity?

• German lives up to his reputation as a bonafide music-head, providing thoughtful insight about the performance of masculinity through the lens of these artists’ style and personas. He also drops some important historical context around music and masculinity.

• How have artists subverted gender roles via music performance and did that permeate other areas of their lives as artists? The crew discusses!

• Samantha and German then take a deep dive into the performance of masculinity in music. Is it different from genre to genre? Are there parallels between the MASKulinity-tech influencer pipeline we talked about earlier this season and the bravado of men’s musical performances? We’d love to hear what you think, so be sure to shoot us a note.

• Finally, German preps us for the new season of Modern Manhood, “Man Vs Machine.” Listen till the end to hear the dope trailer.

Referenced in the episode

• Bikini Kil

• One of our artist picks opens up about mental health

• "I Made My ADHD Into My Strength": Understanding The Link Between Rap & Neurodivergence

• Cash's masculine vulnerability

• The Beastie Boys’ Feminist Evolution

• One of our picks helped mainstream male emotion

COMPANION PIECES:

• A Man’s World? How Music and Masculinity Got a Makeover

• The Year Pop’s Men Dismantled Their Masculinity

OUR GUEST THIS WEEK:

German Villegas

German Villegas is a community developer by work, educator by trade, podcaster by hobby, and a laugher by heart. German has been involved with ideas around gender since 2013 mostly with volunteering and serving on the board of Next Gen Men. German is also the producer of the Modern Manhood podcast, a podcast about the systemic issues of masculinity since 2015. New season is OUT NOW!