RAYE was warned to “concern” all feminine pop stars, leaving her with “horrible paranoia and insecurity”.
RAYE was taught different ladies had been competitors
The 26-year-old singer – who left her report label Polydor in 2021 after 5 years once they didn’t launch her debut LP, happening to attain big success together with her independently-released album ‘My twenty first Century Blues’ – has blasted the “lies” she was advised by male music executives, who made her view different ladies within the charts as “competitors” who had been stopping her from doing properly.
She advised the Sunday Occasions newspaper’s Tradition journal: “Whenever you’re younger your thoughts is malleable, your opinions not all the time your individual.
“As a child on this trade I had horrible paranoia and insecurity projected on to me. I used to be advised to concern the entire ladies doing properly on the time, like we had been competitors. Apparently there was just one seat on the desk and I needed to combat to make it mine. That was such a complicated narrative for me.”
However the ‘Escapism’ hitmaker then met fellow pop star Charli XCX in London and the ‘Growth Clap’ singer “tore a knife” via every thing she believed.
RAYE added: “She took day trip of her busy schedule to direct a music video for me. She invited me to her residence within the countryside and we sang into hairbrushes within the mirror, together with her giving me tips about how one can carry out. I bear in mind being within the automobile [going] again, realising that every thing I had been advised by males in music was a lie.”
Though the BRIT Award-winning singer has seen issues change for ladies in recent times, she thinks that’s right down to the angle of the performers, not a widespread shift within the trade.
She mentioned: “It’s a unbelievable time to be a feminine artist.
“The assist amongst ladies is nice. As an alternative of being insecure about one another, we’re in awe of one another.
“What Taylor Swift has finished by re-recording her albums is so inspiring. That’s a ton of onerous work to get her rights again. Music contracts might be brutal and they’re by no means in favour of the creatives.”