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(SOMETIMES) LADIES MAKE BANK It’s a totally different world for female musicians today. When we were releasing “You Oughta Know” in 1995, we sent it to radio stations and the initial response from all the program directors was, “Oh, we’re already playing Sinéad O’Connor, so we’re good on women,” or, “We’ve hit our quota – we already play Tori Amos.” Literally one female artist was allocated to every radio station. I thought there’d be more of a sisterhood in the fame – that Sharon Stone would be patting my head by the campfire singing “Kumbaya” – but that wound up not being the case. Thankfully, things changed pretty quickly after that, because those suit peeps are very interested in the bottom line, and all of a sudden a woman became bankable.
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