"Crow appeared at a press conference backstage at Lilith Fair, the all-women music festival, during which she was asked about a disastrous appearance she had recently made at Woodstock 99. This was the Woodstock reboot in upstate New York marred by violence, sexual assault and an angry male crowd that heckled the few female artists present with, show us your tits. Crowe, smiling bleakly, said, I'm hoping it doesn't represent our future as a nation or the youth of America. Well, as they say: ha."
"Lilith Fair, which at the time won a huge amount of publicity, has in the decades since faded almost entirely from view and for the uninitiated, it is hard to overstate just how extraordinary, thrilling, genuinely radical and extremely gay the festival, which toured the US for three summers in the late 1990s, appears from this distance. The all-female lineup featured some of the biggest names in music, including Sinead O'Connor, Missy Elliott,"
Sheryl Crow responded to the violence and sexual assaults at Woodstock 99 by expressing hope that those events would not define the nation's future or its youth. Lilith Fair was an all-women touring festival that ran across the US for three summers in the late 1990s and featured a high-profile, all-female lineup. The festival combined mainstream star power with a genuinely radical, queer-affirming atmosphere and won substantial publicity at the time. In the decades since, Lilith Fair has largely faded from public view, leaving an alternative historical moment that now feels distant from current cultural realities.
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