Belinda Carlisle thinks artists akin to Dua Lipa are “embarrassing” themselves with their “sexualised” look.
Belinda Carlisle has hit out at sexualised stars
The previous Go-Gos singer cannot perceive why younger feminine performers would assume their raunch photos are “empowering” and believes they may remorse their choices once they grow old.
She instructed the i newspaper: “Today younger girls within the music business are simply so sexualised. Like, what occurred? I don’t get it.
“It’s not empowering. It’s embarrassing.
“Sure, you’ll get consideration, however not the proper, and down the road you will look again and say: ‘Want I hadn’t finished that.’
“I imply: Dua Lipa? It’s stunning! She’s so gifted. She doesn’t want to do this.”
The 66-year-old star is conscious some girls within the music enterprise within the Eighties skilled sexual assault and sexist abuse however “no man ever messed with a Go-Go. We have been like a 5 headed monster”.
And Belinda skilled one occasion of overt sexism when she launched her solo profession.
She recalled: “A giant supervisor instructed me: ‘You need to present your t***and sing some songs like, “Stick it in me.” And I stated merely; ‘No. I don’t do this.’ ”
The Heaven is a Place on Earth singer instructed how years of public scrutiny about her weight led to her creating an consuming dysfunction.
She stated:“I used to be at all times described as ‘fairly and plump’, ‘cute and chubby’. The papers have been all, ‘Oh look, she’s misplaced weight! Oh no, she’s gained weight!’ It actually f**** up your mind as a younger woman.
“I developed what changed into an consuming dysfunction.
“It was a type of bulimia that also typically comes again. I believe the press are extra conscious now, however they weren’t then. And people judgments can destroy girls. They do. They destroy us.”
However as she’s received older, Belinda has discovered scrutiny has shifted from her look to her age, which she finds simply as infuriating.
She stated: “Now the burden feedback have stopped, it’s all about my age. I’m at all times ‘Belinda Carlisle, 66’. They by no means do this to the boys, do you discover?”
