Lauren Mayberry Quotes
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My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
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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.
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There's a difference between criticism and hatred.
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I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche Mode or teenagers or teenage girls and their dad.
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I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.
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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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Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to it.
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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.
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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.
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I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic.
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When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.
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If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything.
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We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.
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I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.
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It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
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Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people.
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Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.'
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It's nice to squash people's expectations.
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We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile.
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If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.
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Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.
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We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.
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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.
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I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other.