Shocking Omissions: Cat Power, 'Moon Pix'
On Moon Pix — an album that truly represents Chan Marshall's vast capabilities as an artist — the songwriter sets an example of how to talk about weakness without feeling ashamed.
This essay is one in a series celebrating deserving artists or albums not included on NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women.
By the fall of 1998, the bubble of the riot grrrl movement — which had propelled many talented women to make angry, exciting music in the early '90s — had burst. The music scene had become dominated by bubblegum pop feminism in the form of the ' manufactured "girl power," alongside misogynistic rock bands like Limp Bizkit. But with the album , — the moniker for musician Chan Marshall — created her own version of
