PinkPantheress: “People are less willing to listen to electronic music made by a Black woman”
The artist opens up in a new interview about the hurdles she’s had to jump through during her career so far
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, recent Mixmag cover star PinkPantheress has opened up about the hurdles she’s had to jump through during her career so far.
The 24-year-old singer, songwriter and producer spoke on the disparity she’s faced as a Black woman in the music industry, explaining that she’d like to enter certain spaces, but feels like there are barriers.
“People are less willing to listen to electronic music that is made by a Black woman. That’s just fact,” she explained. “There’s some considerations I would like to get as an artist which I might not be getting right now, since maybe it’s harder to put me into a genre.”
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She also went on to speak about being boxed into a “niche” sound, and how “it’s harder for me to be taken seriously” and climb the ladder within the industry.
“I always feel like I’m cutting through and I’m in a very privileged position musically. But [I] can feel a little bit like I’m hitting all these markers and it still feels like I’m getting overlooked, simply because there’s a lot of people that don’t necessarily understand what I represent, nor do they want to take a look because I think it just doesn’t make sense for them.”
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In March, as she appeared on the cover of Mixmag, PinkPantheress spoke about her latest project, ‘Fancy That’, and how it leaned into electronic styles like trip hop, house and big beat.
She also opened up about how she’s often pigeonholed within music, explaining: “I think a lot of people also categorise me as just pop, but I think I’m fairly experimental and could go even further.”
“A lot of my career has been people telling me their perception of me rather than me saying who I am,” she added.
Read her cover story here.
[Via: The Hollywood Reporter]
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