Scottish - Musician | August 26, 1966 -
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
Shirley Manson
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I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
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You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
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My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
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I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
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I feel privileged, to be honest.
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I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
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I love pop music. Who doesn't?
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In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.
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I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
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I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.
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