I like Chvrches but I always found Lauren's calling out of guys like that really immature and it will probably hurt her in the long run
wow overreaction if you ask me
imagine Gene Simmons calling out women on the red carpet with "marry me Gene" signs.
Oh yes, I'm sure he was sincerely asking for her to marry him
:rolleyes:
I do not like the women who do things like this specifically.
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Not funny, not witty just sad.
Honestly she should probably stop acknowledging them. The simple fact that she gave him attention is just going to encourage him or the other creeps like the weirdos on /mu/.
Way to kill the mood of [i]your own fucking concert.[/i]
Knowing how the music industry treats women, how general fans treat women musicians, and specifically all the shit Lauren has received by people, it was more of a letting out of bottled emotions and making a statement. Like in my opinion she is 100% in the right [url=https://storify.com/Laupina_/from-the-margins]because of all the shit women musicians have to put up with to do what they love.[/url] The reason you don't see "Gene Simmons calling out women on the red carpet with 'marry me Gene' signs" is because male musicians do not have to put up with even a small fraction of the shit female musicians deal with on a daily basis. This was not just a callout to this creepy dude, but a callout to all the bullshit she has dealt with over her career. Just look at any forum thread, comment box, or just go to one of their concerts and see/hear the amount of harassment she gets directed only at her and not at the other two members of the band. I do not even really care for CHVRCHES, their first record was pretty good but I think they missed the mark with their new one, but Lauren's work in outright facing the harassment she gets instead of just pretending it does not exist is both a huge inspiration to female artists and in my opinion a very brave and commendable thing.
[QUOTE=splenda;48869542]Knowing how the music industry treats women, how general fans treat women musicians, and specifically all the shit Lauren has received by people, it was more of a letting out of bottled emotions and making a statement. Like in my opinion she is 100% in the right [url=https://storify.com/Laupina_/from-the-margins]because of all the shit women musicians have to put up with to do what they love.[/url] The reason you don't see "Gene Simmons calling out women on the red carpet with 'marry me Gene' signs" is because male musicians do not have to put up with even a small fraction of the shit female musicians deal with on a daily basis. This was not just a callout to this creepy dude, but a callout to all the bullshit she has dealt with over her career. Just look at any forum thread, comment box, or just go to one of their concerts and see/hear the amount of harassment she gets directed only at her and not at the other two members of the band. I do not even really care for CHVRCHES, their first record was pretty good but I think they missed the mark with their new one, but Lauren's work in outright facing the harassment she gets instead of just pretending it does not exist is both a huge inspiration to female artists and in my opinion a very brave and commendable thing.[/QUOTE]
I am totally against cat calling. i think its creepy and gross and its terrible women have to deal with that shit, but you're deluded if you believe this is the same thing. ALL musicians are going to be heckled by their audiences. Hell I say it to both male and female performers I love. It's not because I think that I'm ever going to have a chance with them and it's absurd that anybody would think that way. Generally it's just a joke to show your love for the musicians work. I'm sure that guy would have loved to marry her because he probably thinks their music is amazing and that she is hot. I don't however think he was going into that genuinely attempting to Woo her!
This wasn't even heckling... He was expressing his affection for his (possible) favorite singer.
Him saying marry me in that specific scenario is essentially him saying how she's a wonderful woman, not: "Marry me bitch! I wanna control you! Be my slave!" like she thought he was
[QUOTE=splenda;48869542]Knowing how the music industry treats women, how general fans treat women musicians, and specifically all the shit Lauren has received by people, it was more of a letting out of bottled emotions and making a statement. Like in my opinion she is 100% in the right [url=https://storify.com/Laupina_/from-the-margins]because of all the shit women musicians have to put up with to do what they love.[/url] The reason you don't see "Gene Simmons calling out women on the red carpet with 'marry me Gene' signs" is because male musicians do not have to put up with even a small fraction of the shit female musicians deal with on a daily basis. This was not just a callout to this creepy dude, but a callout to all the bullshit she has dealt with over her career. Just look at any forum thread, comment box, or just go to one of their concerts and see/hear the amount of harassment she gets directed only at her and not at the other two members of the band. I do not even really care for CHVRCHES, their first record was pretty good but I think they missed the mark with their new one, but Lauren's work in outright facing the harassment she gets instead of just pretending it does not exist is both a huge inspiration to female artists and in my opinion a very brave and commendable thing.[/QUOTE]
search "justin bieber fan" on youtube and wash away your ignorance, your white armour could do with some matting i'm going blind over here
Not a fan of CHVRCHES but you do you, Lauren.
Yea there are creepy fans for both sexes, that is something that is readily apparent. The level of "sexing up" women of popular groups, or in the case of smaller groups, the amount of times they have to "prove themselves" to a large amount of people to even have their jobs legitimized is so far beyond what a male musician in the same position for through it's kind of astounding. If you want sources on this they are all verbal from actual women artists telling me about the shit that they go through and that storify link gives a lot more first hand experiences.
With this already imbedded sexism in the entertainment industry, in this case the music industry, it is not that outlandish to think that someone in her position, who also happens to run a female fronted band oriented zine and charity group, would get angry at shit like this. Also from the video the guy sounds like he is saying "MARRY ME NOW" with a pretty serious and demanding tone, so its easy to see why someone in a high adrenaline situation like playing a show to a large crowd would react instinctively instead of thinking something out, although I still agree with her reaction and I be she would still defend it even after having time to think it over.
Also to the guy saying I'm "white knighting" or whatever that term is, would I really of said that I thought CHVRCHES new album was mediocre if I was just in it to try to get on an artist's good side who will probably never even know that this website exists? Not to mention how I have done charity work, promotion and political acitivies through the labels of a few female fronted art spaces pushing for the furthering of equality in the music industry. Like attacks on my personal character are fine if there is some sort of weird connection you can make back to me, but diminishing a stance of mine that I put more effort into actively participating for a real change than any other opinion by saying that you think I'm just in it for a quick fuck or whatever is incredibly offensive and rather childish.
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Also she has repeatedly said, especially after the /mu/ incident with their recent video, that she is not going to be silent about this shit anymore because she wants to show to other women that you don't have to take this creepiness from guys. She knows her space as a female role model and is trying to use it to empower young female fans, so in doing so she activly responds to this shit publicity and in the face of the person who offended her.
[QUOTE=splenda;48870950]this creepiness[/QUOTE]
I must be missing something because the only thing I saw in that video was a guy yelling "Marry me! Marry me [i]now![/i]" in a crowd full of people who probably found it funny or embarrassing for the guy if anything
That whole needless calling out act reeked of "you're not as clever as you think you are"-ness.
Shes lucky the dude even asked. Has she heard of prearranged marriages?
Wow you could [I]really[/I] feel the energy when she started singing.
It was like she was singing to an empty room, that call-out really killed the mood of that concert.
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