Markus PritziDua Lipa is calling out the double standards in the music industry.
In a new cover story with British GQ, the singer explains how women have to do a lot more to prove themselves than men do.
“For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you’re not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?” she says. “For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.”
She credits the #MeToo movement with helping dismantle these ingrained assumptions. While Dua Lipa says she hasn’t experienced sexual harassment herself, she sees the movement’s impact.
“You know, even from school, growing up with kiss chase or whatever, it’s been ingrained in our heads that boys will be boys and its harmless fun and no big deal and to brush things off,” she says.
Dua adds, “For lots of females, be it actresses, singers, models, no matter what it is, it’s not being able to have the right to dress and wear how and what you want and be taken seriously.”
Dua’s GQ issue hits stands April 5.
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