{"id":254,"date":"2011-06-25T23:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T06:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2011-06-26T00:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T07:29:18","slug":"starbucks-gives-away-free-malemasculine-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/entry\/254","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks gives away free male\/masculine music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I go to Starbucks once a week or so, which is actually how frequently they give away promo codes which let customers download free &#8220;pick of the week&#8221; music through Apple iTunes. So I&#8217;ve been picking up the cards that contain these codes each week without actually downloading the music for the most part, and today I noticed that they have accumulated in a pocket of my purse. Here are the cards I&#8217;ve collected:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/img\/potw.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"427\" alt=\"free song cards\" ><\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or do you see the pattern as well? Week after week, Starbucks is picking male musicians and bands. In fact, the last female artist I remember on one of these cards is k.d. lang several months ago (which I downloaded), so perhaps it&#8217;s more accurate to say that Starbucks keeps picking artists who are masculine in their appearance (most of whom also happen to be men).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily go to Starbucks every week, so perhaps they are featuring female and\/or feminine-looking artists while I&#8217;m away from their stores. But that is unlikely. The question is, is the obvious male\/masculine slant simply a reflection of the taste of whoever is picking the songs at Starbucks, or based on some sort of internal marketing data, or perhaps even a result of promotional strategies at record companies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I go to Starbucks once a week or so, which is actually how frequently they give away promo codes which let customers download free &#8220;pick of the week&#8221; music through Apple iTunes. So I&#8217;ve been picking up the cards that contain these codes each week without actually downloading the music for the most part, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}