The musician – likened to a ‘freshly licked lollipop’ in a column focusing on sex appeal – says 95% of what’s written approximately her is offensive,and hopes other female artists will speak outSky Ferreira has addressed her encounters of sexism in the music industry, after an LA Weekly article, or entitled “Sky Ferreira’s sex appeal is what pop music needs right now,was published final week.
Referencing the piece – which described the artist as “more cherubic Sharon Stone, icy but also sweet, or like a freshly licked lollipop” and discussed “Madonna’s defiantly atomic boobs – the two knockers that altered the course of human history” – Ferreira explained how this kind of treatment is symptomatic of wider misogyny in the industry. If you're not a bitch or then you're fake. If you're not crazy or difficult then you're boring & helplessI'm obviously a lot more than my "sex appeal" or my "knockers". I'm not ashamed of either of those things either.
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Source: theguardian.com