Amaranthe vokalisti kommentoi naisten asemaa metallimusiikissa

Ruotsalaisen pop metallia soittavan Amaranthen vokalisti Elize Ryd on antanut hiljattain haastattelu australialaiselle The AU Review -julkaisulle, jossa hän kertoo omasta näkökulmastaan naisten asemasta metallimusiikissa nykypäivänä. Voit lukea Elizen mietteitä aiheeseen liittyen tästä:

”Well, within the band, it’s fine, because they see me as their sister, you know?” she said. ”But sometimes we are very different, because I like to do different things than the guys do, so sometimes I feel very alone. And also, I feel that the women in metal always get objectified in a different way than the guys, and I think it’s very unfair. I’m definitely a feminist in that perspective. It’s usually the haters that write bad things about the women, and I think it’s just wrong.”

She continued: ”It’s different for me than [it is for someone like] Floor [Jansen in NIGHTWISH, for example], because I am one of three singers in the band, and usually, when someone has a bad comment about the band or the sound, they usually put the focus on me, even though there are five other guys they could have criticized. I also read very, very, disrespectful comments that are focused towards me because I’m a woman — not because I’m an artist just like the other guys — so there is a difference. But I also get a lot of good critique. Mostly it’s love.”

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Elizeltä kysyttäessä kuinka hän pysyy vahvana kritiikistä huolimatta vastasi nainen näin:

”I stay positive thanks to all the positive critique I get, and the love I get from so many fans. I have so many fans who I feel the most amazing love from, so it’s thanks to them I get more and more strong. It’s definitely the good responses that I’m sucking in, and all the bad stuff, I try to keep it outside my life. I still think it’s very important to actually point at people who are disrespecting you because you are a female — I don’t have any patience or acceptance for it.”

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