"I Want Everybody to Be Able to Come to the Party"

"How many reviews do you read where it says something like, 'This is something your mom would like'? It extends the maligning [of] the teenage fangirl. Teenage girls are the number one purchasers of music. Are we going to say their fandom is fake? This idea that there is a right way to like music and a right music to like and a right way to express that—it all works together in this prescribed idea of how women are supposed to participate in music. Decades and decades of women being told we like music in the wrong way. It's all just a myth."

Eliza Berman in Time interviews Jessica Hopper about The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic.