Far from leading a charmed existence, Iggy Azalea’s had to push hard to get where she is. In the record business a beautiful women is seen, more often than not, as something to be moulded – usually by a man. She has to fight these prejudices every day – guys in suits telling her how she should dress, who she should write songs with, what sort of videos she ought to create. It is utterly exhausting.
“I used to think it was because I was a women in the music industry,” she says. “Recently I had a conversation with some boys, from a very famous boy-band. I’m not going to say who they are. They are very famous. They couldn’t believe how much control I have – that I am allowed write my own songs. They are not allowed do that. If one of them writes a song it’s not going on the album. They are told ‘we don’t want your ideas for the music videos or whatever’.
“While I was talking to them this guy walked up and apologised. I asked why he would do that. They said that it was because the group had wanted something and that he had accidentally cc-ed them on an email in which he called one of the band members a c**t for giving his opinion. I was like ‘wow‘. I knew people in the industry always struggle to have control. I didn’t realise it happened to the extent that it does. What you have is a corporation trying to control a product – and that product is a human being.”
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