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" I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out. "
Lauren Mayberry
Out
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" I went to an island in the Bahamas full of iguanas. You don't live on the island, obviously, because it's solely populated by iguanas, and it's not allowed. "
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" Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects. "
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" I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that. "
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" Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things. "
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" I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used. "
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" I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool. "
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" I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying. "
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" People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want. "
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" Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes. "
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" Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible. "
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" Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!' "
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" We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm. "
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" We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with. "
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" I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors. "
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" We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music. "
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" Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing. "
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" After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help. "
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" People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message. "
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" We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I was trying to catch up with myself. Figuring out how to take up space was an interesting journey. "
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" I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change. "
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" Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people. "
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