All over the internet, Tom Petty dead at 66

[Rev. Rye]

... you learn something new every day, I guess. You learn who Tom Petty is/was, and I learn you're either female or LGBTQ.

I am not particularly a huge music fan; which is not to state that I don't have artists I like.  It's just that all the artists I do like are female.  The male singing voice just doesn't speak to me, and I'm a gay male.  One would think I would prefer male musicians.

That phoenomenon isn't unprecedented. In a 2014 interview, Sam Smith cited his influences, exclusively female; he stated "It's all I listened to. I actually didn't listen to male vocalists until about two years ago. I just listened to Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan. Massive voices." And a year ago, he had to be reminded of who Radiohead's Thom Yorke was when pressed with their competing versions of the "Spectre" theme.