Charlotte Church Blasts 'Sexist' Music Industry
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24528022
While I don't deny that the music industry uses sex to sell records...I find it incredibly hypocritical of Ms Church to blame her imagine on the music industry and her former management. She was falling out of nightclubs wearing next to nothing left, right & centre in her 'heyday':rolleyes:
While I don't deny that the music industry uses sex to sell records...I find it incredibly hypocritical of Ms Church to blame her imagine on the music industry and her former management. She was falling out of nightclubs wearing next to nothing left, right & centre in her 'heyday':rolleyes:
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Then she grew up and had children, while staying out of the spotlight. She has a very good point because she has learnt what is expected of her.
Are Justin Bieber and One Direction not being "sexualised" and marketed on how attractive they are?
Why are shirtless pictures of Bieber any different to Miley wearing next to nothing?
To be fair, she does accept some of the blame herself. But I don't doubt she was encouraged to wear revealing outfits.
That's a fair point, actually. It's true that sex sells, whether the star involved is male or female, and the talk of sexism is a little exaggerated in some cases. However, away from the boy bands, there are plenty of male stars who don't market themselves in this way. Virtually all female performers are sold on looks and, apart from the odd exceptions like Susan Boyle, I don't think there are many female artists in any genre of popular music who aren't sexually attractive.
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If you have music execs etc throwing money at you to make music, then you have to have a bit of give and take. It is a business as well as art after all.
Image and style has always been tied up with music, so unless you want to be totally in control of that, and use your own resources and money to make the music the way you want to, then you have to be a little flexible.
Not really, because in the audio link she claims that she was 'forced' by her label to wear revealing clothes when performing. She could feel the time is right to take a stand against this type of thing now. I'm not sure how many males would agree though. The same goes for lasses who look at male music artists who show quite a bit of flesh when performing on the stage or in music videos.
Yep. The music industry will do what it needs to in order to sell their artist's/group's singles and albums.
Yeah, but if the music industry cleans up the image of its music artists, how much of an impact will this have on sales?
There is a difference, though, between what someone chooses to wear on a night out and being coerced, to use her word, in to wearing something you are uncomfortable with in a music video.
I guess Charlotte was also "coerced" into getting down on all fours and poking her pert arse up in the air for photos like this below...................which she just happened to pose for a whole 5 years after the Call My Name video. Hmmmmmmmm !
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Charlotte was as sexy as anyone could ever want; a feisty personality and that curvy figure! I suspect her pop career might have been better if her records had been more outstanding.
The sad thing is that the dumbed down public keep on supporting the pornomusic industry instead of seeing it for what it really is, not music for a start!
In another couple of years the 'performers' will be having it off for real on stage and the grunting they make will be known as the 'music'. It's so putrid:(
Only asking as the last time I remember she got a bit gobby she coincidently had an an album out
Sex does sell but some people seem to get the idea that anyone who disagrees with that approach should be gagged from saying anything. Said it before and I'll say it again the Hot 100 counting video views towards chart positions is the beginning of the end and it's going to become a ridiculous competition over who can be the most explicit, violent, sexual, possibly immoral too...watch this space because there's worse to come than Blurred Lines and Pour It Up.
Her comments come from part of her talk at the BBC, where she was invited to be the speaker at this year's BBC 6 Music's annual John Peel Lecture.
What a weird description of someone in a high necked, long sleeved dress. Do you suppose Charlotte Church is asking for all female singers to wear Burqas? She has always been unusually willing to appear in magazines etc informally dressed and un-airbrushed.
She was selling the most records when she was an 11 year old.
She doesn't seem to be interested in selling records, she just seems to want produce the music that suits her. She has many options, including classical music if she chooses that route.
She could have extended her pop career but she had children instead and has to her credit kept them out of the spotlight. I don't think they have been photographed much.