Sam Fender describes music industry as “rigged” and “90 per cent kids who are privately educated”

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Sam Fender has hit out at the current state of the music industry, describing it as “rigged” with “90 per cent kids who are privately educated”.Speaking in a new interview with The Sunday Times the singer-songwriter also said he feels guilty that his life has changed after making it in the music industry despite being from a working class background in North Shields while his friends still struggle “on the bones of their arse”.He said: “The music industry is 80 per cent, 90 per cent kids who are privately educated.

A kid from where I’m from can’t afford to tour, so there are probably thousands writing songs that are ten times better than mine, poignant lyrics about the country, but they will not be seen because it’s rigged.”Referring to the song from ‘TV Dinner’ from his latest album ‘People Watching‘ which was released on Friday (February 21), he also criticised the industry for “building” artists up “to knock ’em down.”He said: “It was wild.

I wrote that, then Liam Payne died. You think of the amount of times he was getting dragged through the press and he didn’t help himself, did he?

Bless him. I remember watching some videos he was in and being, like, ‘God, what a tit.’ But the reality was that he was just a young lad, famous far too young, who had addiction trouble – and everyone hit him with the pitchforks.”When asked about the lyric “You’ll sell me / You’ll kill me”, if Fender was talking about himself, he said: “Entirely.