CHVRCHES vocalist Lauren Mayberry has taken to social media this morning to shut down critics who have labelled her gig outfits as “too revealing”.
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to see CHVRCHES performing live, you’d undoubtedly be aware that vocalist Lauren Mayberry is someone who does exactly what she wants to do.
Known her for animated performance style and love of varied outfits, the Scottish muso is exactly the sort of person that many young performers aspire to be.
However, Mayberry was forced to take to social media earlier today to hit back at a number of critics who have labelled her gig outfits as being “too revealing”, claiming her decision to dress how she wants is something “everyone else will just have to deal with.”
Posting an image of herself wearing an outfit before Sunday night’s Edinburgh show, Mayberry soon shared a message on her Twitter account, responding to the vocal naysayers of her fashion choices.
“To the people saying that my gig outfits are too revealing / I shouldn’t dress like that if I don’t want men to comment on it: I disagree,” she began.
“This argument assumes women only dress for the attention of men. When I dress for shows, I want to own my gender and my femininity.
“I want my performance image to be inherently feminine and tough as fuck because that is how I want to pretend to be — to myself, and to the women and young girls who come to our gigs.”
Check out Lauren Mayberry’s Tweet:
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— Lauren Mayberry (@laurenevemay) August 12, 2019
“I don’t need to pretend to be One Of The Lads because I am not one,” Mayberry continued. “How I dress is part of how I express myself creatively and how I want to communicate our message.
“It’s about trying not to be ashamed of your own gender and identity, even when people tell you that you should be; about not being scared into hiding yourself because of the actions of others.
“People have tried to weaponise my gender against me since the start of my career as a musician. It happens now but it also happened when I was wearing baggy flannel shirts and jeans, because it’s not really about what a woman is wearing. It never is.
“It’s about claiming ownership of women’s bodies and women’s narratives. So I will continue dressing like a gothic Power Puff Girl with Big Witch Energy and I hope that you’ll all do whatever your version of that is too. Everyone else will just have to deal with it. My body, my life, my choice.”
Check out an example of Lauren Mayberry’s “revealing” outfits:
Lauren Mayberry’s message towards her critics came just a few months after CHVRCHES became the target of hatred and death threats from fans of Chris Brown after they criticised previous collaborator Marshmello for working with Brown on the song ‘Light It Up’.
“We like and respect Mello as a person but working with people who are predators and abusers enables, excuses and ultimately tacitly endorses that behavior,” the group wrote on social media back in April. “That is not something we can or will stand behind.”
“We weren’t just deciding to pick on Chris Brown for the sake of it. I was like, ‘I don’t know, maybe domestic abuse might be wrong,’” Mayberry later explained to a crows. “Now I’m gonna have to invest in some fucking bulletproof tutus, because apparently that does not go down well with the Breezy fans.
“We were like, ‘maybe don’t promote serial convicted violence to kids, to young people,’ and then they were like ‘you know what we’re gonna do? We’re gonna rape you and shoot you.’ You kind of proved the point.”
If history is anything to go by though, it likely won’t be long before critics start criticising that Lauren Mayberry’s decision to wear bulletproof tutus, claiming that they’re too revealing.
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