At a recent lecture in honour of John Peel, Charlotte Church has said that the music industry has an ingrained culture of demeaning female pop stars.
The Cardiff born singer has suggested that in the early years of her career she felt pressurised to be more sexual in a bid to sell records. At the annual radio festival, she pointed the finger at the sexual imagery used by former Disney lovely Miley Cyrus.
Charlotte was quoted in the Telegraph saying, “They are encouraged to present themselves as hyper-sexualised, unrealistic, cartoonish, as objects, reducing female sexuality to a prize you can win.”
This speech has sparked a debate among panellists for Radio Six’s Woman’s Hour who discussed the contentious issue in a Women in Music special.