Turns out Aimee Mann didn’t look like a perfect fit to open for Steely Dan on the band’s twice-postponed summer tour — but not for the reason she initially suspected.
Mann suggested it was sexism at work. But Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen took the blame, apologizing and saying in a statement that it was a matter of miscommunication and a perceived mismatch.
“I was supposed to open for Steely Dan this summer. I just found out that they took me off the bill,” Mann wrote Wednesday night in a cartoon she posted on Instagram. “No one is entirely sure why, but it seems they thought their audience wouldn’t like a female singer-songwriter?”
