“My first instinct is great pride for all of us as women who are finding our voices.”īut, she adds, this has been a deeply disappointing moment. Keys’ conviction makes the recent wave of revelations about sexual harassment in the entertainment industry both hopeful and deeply frustrating. … Stay in your place, be feminine, be a lady, don’t make too much noise.” “I was subscribing to this sick identity. … We’re the entire universe, in five feet five inches. “We are the greatest creators on the planet, like, the planet literally would not exist if we weren’t in it.
I personally feel we are the more evolved species,” she says with a twinkle in her eye. “If I never do anything else - if I do nothing else - this has been something,” she recalls feeling. “Being a woman, being a girl, is the most awesome thing to be. With “Girl on Fire,” the number of stories of young girls singing that song seemed endless. There’s always uncertainty about how much listeners will relate to the music. It gets confusing, and you lose your footing.
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“I’m always trying to figure out how to lift myself, how to remind myself that I’m greatness. She describes the experience of writing the song as “divine,” like she was listening to a faraway voice and transcribing what it was telling her. Throughout her career, Keys has written songs with feminist themes, but none is quite so obvious, or memorable, as 2012’s smash hit “Girl on Fire,” which became a global anthem for femininity. Keys has served as a coach on NBC’s “The Voice” for three seasons. She taps past the notifications pop-up - some 80,000 likes - to proudly display pictures from her childhood. “I’m glad she challenged me in that way.” Keys opens up Instagram on her phone to show a post she wrote for her mother for International Women’s Day. “If I didn’t have my facts? Mm-mm, I had to have facts,” she says.
Her mother taught her to “care deeply and strongly about other women.” Adds Keys: “She’s always been really fearless.” Growing up, Keys had to learn how to argue her point against her strong-minded, opinionated parent. Keys credits her feminism to her “magnificent” mother, an actress, who moved to New York City from Toledo, Ohio. I’d literally look at myself in the mirror like, Yeah! That’s me! OK. “Argh! If you go to work without makeup, it’s like, Are you tired? You look tired. And it’s like, I’m not f-ing tired!” Keys describes confronting her un-made-up face as really seeing her - meeting her, where she is right now. That’s not just for others - that’s for herself too. “That was one of the hardest things for me, in the beginning. … Stay in your place, be feminine, be a lady, don’t make too much noise.” The noise that comes out of her is a visceral expression of exasperation. If we have any hips or any thickness or width with us, we’re fat.
“We’re supposed to be this big, and so tiny, and so skinny. She describes the messages transmitted by the media to young women in the entertainment business as “a prison.” The performer smashed into the mainstream with her 2002 debut album, “Songs in A Minor,” but she’s been in the industry since age 4. There’s no doubt that the intense scrutiny of life in the spotlight shaped Keys and her views.
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