dumb pop?
From a ‘New Statesman’ interview with Th’ Aloud. Fantastic
The bandmates’ take on gender issues is distinctly post-feminist. When the Spice Girls conquered the pop world ten years ago, they brought with them lofty concepts such as “girl power”. Girls Aloud are not so idealistic. “I think that’s all gone. When the Spice Girls went, girl power went, too,” says Cole. “They didn’t actually change anything. It’s bad really.” The young girls who follow them, they admit, are more likely to aspire to marrying footballers and living luxurious lifestyles. “It’s the media that put them in that state of mind,” Cole says. “They make it look really glamorous : you can go out and sit on your arse and have all the jewels you want. It’s a joke. These women have nannies, they don’t cook a meal for their husbands, they don’t clean because they’ve got a cleaner, they have all the handbags they want but never do a day’s work. What kind of aspiration is that? Footballers’ wives are just as bad as benefit scroungers - it’s just a higher class of sponger.”
The whole interview: