Which Female Musician has the biggest fanbase for their music among straight men ?

Some options to consider

Patti Smith

Janis Joplin

Stevie Nicks

Tina Turner

Whitney Houston

Beyonce

Debbie Harry

Gwen Stefanie

Joan Jett

What poll, OP? I would think -before her demise - Dolores of The Cranberries as one that had many straight men as fans. everyone enjoyed her music and style

Surprisingly, Kate Bush seems to have a decent number of straight male fans of a certain age.

Ann and Nancy Wilson, IMO.

Nana Mouskouri has all those bitches beat.

r2 Sorry, I clicked submit before I added poll. I added my options in r1.

Great topic, OP.

My gun-toting, tittle-loving, beer-guzzling, ex-military father is a Motown/Disco devotee, and given chance will go on for hours about Gladys Knight, Mary Wells, Diana Ross, Ruth Pointer, and Rose Royce. It’s as endearing as it is weird. I managed to get him into Debra Laws, which is cool.

My camp-straight Xennial cousin is obsessed with Taylor Swift, the way you’d expect a Frau or a College girl to be; my racecar-driving boomer Uncle is basically a Stevie Nicks fanboy who has been on several Fleetwood tours to see her, and also opines the retirement of Kate Bush; adorably, my late Eartha Kitt-loving grandfather also stanned Katie Melua & Amy Winehouse of all people (he was a nightclub jazz singer in the ‘50s). I used to have a straight white Guy In Your MFA housemate in College who was crazy into M.I.A.. for some odd unknown reason.

Interestingly, as the lesbian Millennial family I don’t really like any of the aforementioned, except Kate. My preferred women in music are stereotypically the dark nineties & naughties chanteuses: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Meredith Monk, Alison Moyet, k.d., Hope Sandoval, Johnette Napolitano, Laura Marling, Lisa Germano, Miranda Sex Garden, Björk, Tori, PJ, Neko, Harriet Wheeler, Alison Krauss, and such. I also love dark blues doyennes like Memphis Minnie; a few vintage Renn Faire and folk festival players such as Mimi Farina, Judy Collins, and Heather Dale; punk grrls like Super Junky Monkey; and loopy trashy hillbilly crazies like Jan Terri, The Shaggs, and Elle King. If I want to spook the horses, I have Brigitte Fontaine playlists ready to go. Needless to say my family do not appreciate my classic gay tastes.

R2, Oh my sides! 😂

Ronstadt and Nicks.

Connie Francis

My straight dad likes Jazz singers—Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington. I don’t know any straight men that like Janet Jackson OR Madonna, but I know fans of PJ, Chrissy Hynde and Debby Harry. A lot of boomer men love Stevie Nicks. The country fans I know like Emmy Lou, Iris DeMent, and Lucinda Williams. This is just from the top of my head, I have to think about it and I don’t know what anyone under thirty is listening to.

r7 that, is a MF answer! This is why I come back to DL.

Note, thanks to TikTok Fleetwood Mac has been gaining a few more Gen-Z fans which is really cool.

Barbra?

her concert tickets sold out literally in just minutes, cant be all bought by village people.

R12 honestly I don't get that "they were revived by that tiktok video", Fleetwood Mac was not dead, the songs like Dreams, Landslide... are constantly in Spotify rotation and there are many cover versions from different generations, they never left.

The Cranberries- Just My Imagination. How to be an assertive woman without being a total bitch about it

I went through my father's record collection, consisting of mostly 1960s and 1970s records and it struck me that the only female artists in his collection were: Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou Harris, Carole King, Carly Simon, Melanie (!), Maria Muldar (!), Janis Joplin, Janis Ian (!), Phoebe Snow, Rita Coolidge, and Roberta Flack. From that group, he owned the most Linda Ronstadt records BUT also had two copies of Tapestry. I'm not sure what I'm trying to prove by this anecdote, but I just thought it was interesting!

(He also owned a few by Jefferson Airplane, so Grace Slick can also be thrown in there)

Oh and Fleetwood Mac, naturally.

HAS. Not "had".

R10 wins.

R17 He HAS neither of them now, so HAD.

I have a feeling Adele has tons of straight male fans just for her great voice. Her songs aren't that bad either.

My straight male coworkers had a conversation last year at a party about the hottest female singer. They all said Beyoncé, Rihanna, and one lady Gaga fan. It turned into a Beyoncé vs Rihanna argument. These were all Caucasian (one dude from Argentina) men. White women better watch their men. The guy from Argentina was the Gaga lover.

Dionne.

Lita Ford

Reba MacIntyre

Miley Cyrus

Linda Ronstadt seemed very popular among my straight pals.

Linda Rondstadt was more male in her songs.

No Carrie Underwood?

Back in the day it would be Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and the Supremes.

r14 re-read my message. I said they are gaining new fans from younger people (Gen-Z). I didn't say they didn't have fans to begin with. Geeze, some of you just like to fight over nothing.

Sheryl Crow

Cher!

My dad liked Tina Turner and Sheryl Crow.

I'd guess that Dolly Parton would be someone appreciated by a good percentage of most major demographic groups.