Sky Ferreira discusses sexism in the music industry: “You’re set up in situations to seem difficult”
nme.comSky Ferreira has opened up about her experiences with sexism in the music industry and how she’s resisted attempts to pigeonhole or control her image throughout her career – particularly in its earliest days.In a new conversation with Nancy Sinatra for Interview, Ferreira – whose first singles arrived around 2010, when she was 18 – described feeling “trapped” when she was trying to break out as a young artist.“In the music industry, everyone’s trying to mold you.
They have an idea of what you should be,” Ferreira said. “People get greedy. When I was younger, I got cornered in situations where it was like, ‘You have to do this,’ and I didn’t know better.
It was just different back then.”“The internet was there, but it wasn’t this thing that people had figured out. I used it to my advantage – that really helped me get my stuff out.
But I’ve been shelved so many times. You know, I first came out when I was 15 and it wasn’t a fair representation of me. And then, I wasn’t even that much older, but I started meeting people to collaborate with, and it started falling into place.”Ferreira asked if Sinatra had ever felt similarly, to which the pop icon replied that she was “pigeonholed early on into this bubble gum image, and I had to fight my way out”.
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