It started with
A Pinterest board, like most of my recent projects do (if you’re an artist who’s not using Pinterest, you’re missing out).
It was Halloween 2019, and there were four separate sections of my Pinterest board for costume ideas. Three of those sections were iconic women in music, and I’d spent hours agonizing over which one I would do, when all three meant so much to me. Kacey Musgraves, Cher, and Lady Gaga—all iconic in different ways, all representing different ways that being a woman in the music industry is an act of feminism in itself.
In the end, in my usual fashion, I couldn’t settle on one. I decided to be Cher for one night, and be Kacey the next night. I felt incredible embodying just a few of the women who helped me love myself. At the end of that weekend, I was a bit sad that my time dressing up, like I did when I played in my mom’s closet as a child, was over. Then I thought…
“Or… I could recreate the looks of even more women in music who inspire me, and I could pull out all the stops for it…”
The idea “Women In Music” was born in that moment, and the project began production when I finally had the time to dedicate to it during the 2020 quarantine.
“I’m not thinking, ‘Is this too weird?’” XCX explains. “I don’t care that it’s not going to get on the radio.”
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE on CHARLI XCX
“I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.”
LORDE
“A ningún hombre consiento que dicte mi sentencia.”
ROSALÍA
