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Lulu comments on pressures for women in the music industry
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 2 March 2015
Lulu has commented on the pressures faced by older and younger female artists in the entertainment business in a new interview with the Daily Mail.
Admitting that she’d had botox injections in her face in the past – but that she stopped when the lack of facial movement affected her performances – she said: “There is most definitely a prejudice against older actresses and women in TV. But I don’t sit and wait for the work to come to me – I’m pro-active. The music industry is not an easy business, never has been, and the bosses aren’t rushing to sign you if you’re over a certain age because it’s all about young people”.
On the subject of younger women in the industry, she went on: “Do you know what I really dislike? Female singers thinking they have to strip off when they’ve got talent. Imagine some record exec in the 60s saying to Dusty Springfield and me, ‘OK, for this new single we want you to strip off’. We would have killed ourselves laughing – then told them where to go”.
Not that there weren’t pressures. While discussing a brief relationship she had with David Bowie in the 70s, she said: “He told me I should lose weight. I was a bit embarrassed because I was always a little chubster, but he was talking in terms of my image – that was the thing then, that heroin chic look”. But, she added, “He didn’t say [all that] when I was in a compromising situation with him”.
She didn’t entirely help by also saying of Bowie’s appearance at the time: “David Bowie’s thighs were incredible … They were strong, even though he was emaciated”.
