Friday, February 27, 2009
Crazy Crap Single Ladies Own Many Homes in Nashville; Cause: Deadbeat Musician Boyfriends
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Here's my theory, culled from an exhaustive examination of the most highly respected journals of sociology and mating behavior: I posit that the root cause of this phenomenon can be directly linked to a higher concentration of musicians in Nashville. See, most musicians don't make any money, forcing them to work at Subway and snooty record shops, all but eliminating any possibility of home ownership or even the vaguest semblance of financial stability. That's why only 7 percent of single men own homes in Nashville, compared to a national average of 10 percent.
This in turn forces our local women to become the providers. It will be their names inked on the mortgage payments, while the significant other, who may play for an innovative but struggling indie rock band, contributes to the band-mate-crashing-on-the-couch quotient. Now, this can all get very arcane and scientific, so I'll try not to muddy the waters with too much of the research I've done, but that's essentially the nuts and bolts of the struggling musician/exasperated girlfriend dynamic.
Here are the conclusions of my study:
Male Musicians--Nashville ladies step up! Can you say Sugar Mama?
Ladies--Don't date musicians.
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This is sexist. You are sexist, sir. Women are people too. Like monkeys, but with less clothes on (hopefully).
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Snooty records shops in Nashville?
Don't know of any. Just good record shops.
All 3 of em'.
Holy crap, this is a load of BS if I've ever read one. I bought a house as a single woman and I didn't need a deadbeat musician boyfriend to do it. This post is offensive to women AND musicians.
There is an element of truth to this (hello Brendan Benson), but keep in mind there are a lot of struggling female songwriters who expect their boyfriend to help them out. That being said, there is more to life than money, and I'm sure that many of these women with a so-called deadbeat boyfriend are quite content. After all, they're in the driver's seat, and nobody is forcing them to date the industry aspirant.
