{"id":17279,"date":"2013-10-27T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=17279"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:45:17","slug":"voxpop-should-pop-stars-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/voxpop-should-pop-stars-cover-up","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: should pop stars cover up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent lecture in honour of John Peel, Charlotte Church has said that the music industry has an ingrained culture of demeaning female pop stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardiff born singer has suggested that in the early years of her career she felt pressurised to be more sexual in a bid to sell records. At the annual radio festival, she pointed the finger at the sexual imagery used by former Disney lovely Miley Cyrus.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte was quoted in the <a title=\"Charlotte Church Telegraph article\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/music-news\/10378821\/Charlotte-Church-female-pop-stars-told-take-clothes-off-show-youre-an-adult.html\">Telegraph<\/a> saying, \u201cThey are encouraged to present themselves as hyper-sexualised, unrealistic, cartoonish, as objects, reducing female sexuality to a prize you can win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This speech has sparked a debate among panellists for Radio Six\u2019s <em>Woman\u2019s Hour<\/em> who discussed the contentious issue in a <em>Women in Music<\/em> special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Church has criticised music industry for pressurising pop stars into being overtly sexual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2862,2864,2863,2865],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voxpop: should pop stars cover up? 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