Chantal Kreviazuk doesn't buy into the notion of newfound pop music feminism.

As superstars like Beyonce and Miley Cyrus proclaim their dedication to stronger female voices, Kreviazuk balks at the suggestion women have made progress in pop music under the newest crop of scantily clad performers.

"Somewhere along the line we have accepted or decided as a society that me being able to strip is me being an empowered woman," Kreviazuk says.

"You have to be on a pole to be saying something and have people listen ... Being able to decide how many of my clothes are off or how promiscuous I look ... is (not) power. To me, it's so weak."

"The Kardashians set us back by decades, in terms of our being equal," she adds while sipping a smoothie at a restaurant in downtown Toronto.

Gender dynamics in music is the subject which gets Kreviazuk most riled up in a conversation about "Hard Sail," her first solo effort in seven years.

The singer has spent much of her career balancing her own stories against writing lyrics for huge Top 40 artists like Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani.

"Hard Sail" digs deep into her own emotions. The album is...

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Did she lie?

I don't 100% agree, but I don't 100% disagree.

Too many female artists think taking the power away from men/record label/expectations of selling sex is empowering when they decide to be "liberating" and do willingly it themselves before anybody asks. It's a flawed sense of empowerment and feminism in my opinion.

100% true.

Are you a woman? If not, you have no position to dictate what can and cannot be considered feminism.

No lies spotted.

I am. That may be hard to tell going on this forum's demographics, but I wouldn't have made such a comment if I didn't know what I was getting at.

"The Kardashians set us back by decades"
Really?
Let people do whatever they ****ing want. The Kar-jenners are not murdering anyone. Is it so hard?

"The Kardashians set us back by decades, in terms of our being equal," she adds while sipping a smoothie at a restaurant in downtown Toronto.

TRUE

She wrote one of the best songs of all time



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbt2G71uT1M

I'm going to disagree. No one starts arguing the integrity of a man when he takes off his shirt or tries to look hot and sexy for their videos. I don't think it's flawed feminism at all for women to have full control over their bodies and their integrity.

Why is it so hard for other women to let other women do what they want with their own bodies without passing judgement in them. I think CKs statement was incredibly ignorant and judgemental.

This is beyond retarded. You can't blame a few people for a cultural/social consensus. And who gives three ****s if they're on a pole? That's what they want to do! I never get people like this

It's just another jealous granola who couldn't get her music to sell so she tries to belittle and denigrate the success of other women.

no one would ever say this **** about men , women are only vilified for it because a woman being sexual still carries a layer of social taboo .... and this chick just full on perpetuates that ****

but u know, there's no right or wrong way to do feminism as long as you're promoting positivity and gender equality and critiquing for the sake of increasing perspective/scope and not just to chastise.

the wrong way to go about the gender / sexuality debate is make it to where you're essentially telling someone 'u gotta do it this way or it isn't valid', or '[this] is so played out ,[what i do] is so undervalued' .... there's a layer of pretension there

Yes we should let girls do whatever they wish with their bodies, but are pop stars really doing what they want? There are certain expectations of a pop star to fit a certain pop star image, and apart of that is to sell a degree of sex on stage. That is just what the model pop star does. I'm sure most pop stars don't mind it.. It probably makes them feel like a star, but it's still limiting and I'd like to see our perception of a pop star change.

Ey put down your millennial-era social justice rulebook for a second and think about what she is saying.

Im all for sexual liberation, the freedom for artists like Bey and Miley to be as sexual as they so please. However, there comes a point when you have to disassociate brash sexuality from empowerment. Because I really don't think its always empowering or should be considered as such. Surely they can do as they please, but the point this woman is trying to make is that these days the only way they can get such attention for feminism is by purposely pushing that sexual envelope and almost nothing else. Theres more dimensions to female liberation than sexuality and I think what we see in pop music feminism is incredibly one dimensional for the most part. Sex sex sex, its important right? But what else? You know what would be really forward? What would be really left field? Someone like Beyonce coming out with an album that didnt choose to put most of its emphasis on sexuality. And to this ladys point, probably no one would pay attention. People only want to pay attention if its an ass in a g-string in your face (i.e. Anaconda).

I've thought about it, and I don't agree. For centuries, women in this country have had the expectations to be chaste and "pure" while having their bodies sexualized to the nth degree. And now, we have women who are recognizing these thought patterns and giving them the middle finger, because they understand the hypocrisy and absurdity of it all. And it's not like they're "****s." Bey, Miley, Kim etc are all in long term relationships, they're just taking ownership over their bodies in ways that people would look down on them for before. I think it's completely pragmatic and I don't fault them at all for revealing themselves in ways that some may find lewd. It's 2016 and these issues are passé.

she didn't write this, it was a cover. she did, however, write a gorgeous song called 'Surrounded' that is among the best of all-time, imo.

thrilled to see a thread about her on here, even if it's semi-controversial.