Lily Allen Slams "Demoralising" Music Industry Sexism
She also insists she's definitely a feminist
Lily Allen has hit out at the sexism she claims is still rife in the music industry.
Despite her huge career successes, 28-year-old Lily says that she’s still talked down to purely because of her gender.
She told The Debrief: “I know that I get talked to in label meetings and by executives like a woman. It’s demoralising and sneering and we apparently don’t have an opinion.
“It’s done in a way to make you feel ashamed, whether they know they’re doing it or not. There are women in the room, in those meetings, and no-one says ‘Don’t talk to her like that.’
“That’s the only way I feel like it’s going to change, when people start saying, ‘You can’t f***ing do that!’”
Lily also revealed that her ‘Our Time’ video, which follows her on a night out, is a swipe at the sensationalist treatment women get in the press when they drink alcohol.
Saying she’s got no time for ‘drunk shaming’, Lily continued: “There is a moral undertone where women are concerned that doesn’t exist where men are concerned. And that pisses me off, you know?
“If you show pictures of men it’s like lads on tour, it’s glorified like a cool thing. If it’s a girl, it’s like ‘You’re meant to be at home looking after your children, how dare you!’”
Lily’s comments come after she was quoted in an online interview as apparently snubbing feminism, saying: “I hate that word because it shouldn’t even be a thing any more.”
Claiming she was misquoted and meant she was disappointed that feminism still needed to be discussed because equality should have been reached by 2014, Lily told The Debrief: “Of course I’m a feminist.”
Check out the ‘Our Time’ video right here: