In a confusing twist to a familiar tale, ethereal pop artist Grimes has hit out at the media industry for propagating sexism in the music industry, after her story about experiencing sexism in the latter made masses of headlines in the former.
Grimes, who has a new album Art Angels to promote, gave a rare-ish interview to Rolling Stone, and was asked a bunch of questions spanning musical influences, working with Jay Z, tattoos and the inevitable ‘sexism in the music industry’ one, something that she’s spoken out about in the past.
“I don’t know enough about the specifics of that situation, because it seems very complicated. But I will say that I’ve been in numerous situations where male producers would literally be like, “We won’t finish the song unless you come back to my hotel room.” If I was younger or in a more financially desperate situation, maybe I would have done that. I don’t think there are few female producers because women aren’t interested. It’s difficult for women to get in. It’s a pretty hostile environment.”
That in and of itself paints a grim as hell picture of the kind of bullshit hundreds, if not thousands, of younger and/or less successful artists than Grimes have to deal with on the regular. As could pretty much only be accepted, that one quote made headlines across dozens of media outlets.
However, Grimes is apparently not happy that this is what the media chose to republish. She took to Twitter hours later to clap back at the media industry for propagating sexism and painting her as the victim.
most annoying thing about my job: being asked about “music industry sexism”
— Grimes (@Grimezsz) April 14, 2016
media propagates sexism by portraying me as a victim rather than the successful producer that I am.
— Grimes (@Grimezsz) April 14, 2016
Source: Rolling Stone.
Image: Getty / Pierre Suu.
