Yes we know, it’s hard out there to be a woman—to get the recognition you deserve in any sort of career in the world. But for Dua Lipa, it’s been a journey to feel that she’s earned a seat at the table as a young woman in the music industry.
Talking to Attitude Magazine, the British singer opened up about how she feels like women like her need to work even harder to be taken seriously. “That’s just being a woman in the industry. A lot of people see it, particularly in pop music, that you’re manufactured or whatever, so you have this underlying pressure or anxiety to constantly prove [yourself] to people, especially when you write your own lyrics,” she told the outlet.
The 25-year-old added that while she was making her debut album, she felt she “needed to prove” that she “was not just going to sit there in the room and wait for somebody to write a song for me.” She also recalled an instance where a director insisted she wear a skirt during a music video shoot.
“You’re on a music video and the director goes, ‘I definitely think you need to wear a skirt’—because someone wants to see, you know, ‘UK’s pop star in a cute outfit,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, I’m going to wear trousers because it’s f**king freezing’,” she said, adding “I know how to stand my ground and hold it down.”
Iv’e always been someone to check [someone] straight away. I’ll tell them, ‘I’m not going to do that, I’m going to do this’
The ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ singer also reflected on the conditioning that women experience, often taught to stay quiet in the face of sexism. “We’re so used to pushing it away and saying something just to turn it off and be like ‘this isn’t a big deal’,” she explained. “Iv’e always been someone to check [someone] straight away. If someone’s saying something [that’s wrong], [I’ll tell them], ‘I’m not going to do that, I’m going to do this’.” Yassss, another Leo Queen we stan!
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