During a recent interview with Metal Hammer, Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk shared her thoughts on sexism in metal and the “female-fronted” label. The singer says her band “are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with” them.
Shmayluk said the following:
“We’re still going through this bullshit today. We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists, and I feel very, very fucking offended by that. Because some people, they cannot sing, they don’t hit the notes! Then I get people saying, ‘Oh, she’s doing better than you, she does it better than you, she has this personality, she has…’ Oh my god! Leave me alone! That kind of stuff really pisses me off.”
She went on to say that she initially took inspiration from Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe, but she kept being compared to women:
“I get a lot of comparisons and comments comparing me with [former Arch Enemy vocalist] Angela Gossow. I never wanted to sound like her. Some people told me, ‘Why don’t you colour your hair? Why don’t you dye your hair blue like Alissa [White-Gluz, former Arch Enemy vocalist]?’ But why would I? I don’t get it.”
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