Dua Lipa discusses gender inequality in the music industry in a new interview with GQ. The singer says of the different pressures placed on male and female artists: “I remember going to a show by… a male artist that actually doesn’t do anything on stage.
And they got this stellar five-star review. “But then you have women who get up on stage and they’re practically doing cartwheels, costume changes — it’s a spectacle.
And then [reviewers] nitpick every little thing.” Lipa adds of the number of females working behind the scenes in the industry: “There is a massive problem — that maybe starts in schools — in which girls aren’t necessarily encouraged to play more masculine instruments, aren’t really encouraged to go into production, whereas