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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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Things
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Lauren Mayberry
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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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" When people say stuff to us casually in reviews, if they write about it in a condescending way with really gendered language, that's not really about me. It used to hurt my feelings more than it does now. That's not about us as a band or me as a person. That's about how you feel about women, and that's a societal thing. "
Lauren Mayberry
People
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" I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician. "
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Want
End
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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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" 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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Colors
Nature
Yourself
" I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly. "
Lauren Mayberry
Write
See
People
" 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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Women
Reading
Writing
" You can't believe everything you read in a newspaper or everything that's coming out of the president's mouth. And you can't believe when someone posts a picture from their personal life, because most of the time, it's staged - we're showing each other these idealized versions of ourselves so that we seem better and other people will feel worse. "
Lauren Mayberry
Life
Believe
Picture
" I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine. "
Lauren Mayberry
Different
Fine
Think
" I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once. "
Lauren Mayberry
Brain
Lucky
Media
" 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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Want
Musicians
Opinions
" Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart. "
Lauren Mayberry
Break
Heart
Her
" I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager. "
Lauren Mayberry
Short
Been
Stories
" I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying. "
Lauren Mayberry
Crying
Lot
Quietly
" First time we played in New York was in 2013. It was all very eye-opening. A very bright lights, big-city sort of vibe, and we played the Mercury Lounge. "
Lauren Mayberry
New
Lights
Time
" Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.' "
Lauren Mayberry
Something
Deal
Just
" If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything. "
Lauren Mayberry
Say
Anything
Made
" I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing. "
Lauren Mayberry
Voice
Song
Listening
" Making sure that we interact with the fanbase in a way that feels right to us has been really important. "
Lauren Mayberry
Us
Way
Been
" Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck. "
Lauren Mayberry
Cute
Relationship
Thought
" I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks. "
Lauren Mayberry
Take
Instagram
Internet
" I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter. "
Lauren Mayberry
Twitter
Pretty
Blocking
" There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not. "
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Artist
Job
Talk
" I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it. "
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I Think
Talk
Politics
" I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo. "
Lauren Mayberry
Here
Negative
Sound
" There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem. "
Lauren Mayberry
Problem
Problems
Women
" Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not. "
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Women
Hope
Casual
" 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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Say
Me
Door
" To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference. "
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Silence
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Me