{"id":3479,"date":"2025-10-09T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrymusictune.com\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:38:44","slug":"a-cry-from-inside-day-of-the-girl-inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countrymusictune.com\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"A cry from inside Day of the Girl: Inclusivity, allyship, and being a woman in music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Morrison said all good art is political. Music is\u00a0culture, and culture\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>the world, which is the politics that shape us. As comforting as ignorance might be, the fact is undeniable in 2025, and we can\u2019t hide from it.<\/p>\n<p>No one is operating on this knowledge better than\u00a0War Child, a charity running the Day of the Girl campaign that uses performances to raise awareness and funds for 612 million women and girls worldwide living in conflict zones. This year, Girli, Katy J Pearson, and Mercury Prize winners English Teacher will lend their music to the mission.<\/p>\n<p>It was through word of this incredible initiative that I found myself in a room with Pearson, her booking agent, Sarah Joy, and War Child\u2019s Music Projects and Events Manager Feedy Frizzi. Swapping pixellated smiles and chatter, we sharpened the only weapon we\u2019d brought to defeat the rabid monster that connects the misfortune of the girls and women at the heart of the initiative to our very own industry: the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>How can we use music to push through the madness? What does real inclusivity and allyship look like? How can men most effectively use their privilege for good? If you struggle hearing the voice of one woman, how about four?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-797702\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-819x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-912x1140.jpg 912w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F-150x188.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-F.jpg 960w\" alt=\"A cry from inside Day of the Girl- Inclusivity, allyship, and being a woman in music\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/div><figcaption title=\"(Credits: Far Out \/ Day of The Girl \/ Press)\">(Credits: Far Out \/ Day of The Girl \/ Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why now?<\/h2>\n<p>The music industry is transforming into a largely unknowable and impenetrable beast. Frizzi is the first of us to admit it: some years ago, she knew exactly how to take an artist from zero to selling out London\u2019s Village Underground. In the present moment, she had no clue where to start with the faceless algorithm, and not the omniscient music boss, behind modern success.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, these dynamics are shifting while still attached to their very core to misogyny, sexism, and violence. At the same time, the general state of geopolitics is plummeting; in an industry newly obsessed with image, our stark reality seeps through gaps in our phones, depicting war zones and protests, and hope diminishing. Infographics bleat siren sound, reels show genocide and famine, and then, in the same breath, a sold-out show at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s exactly this dichotomy that lies at the heart of our increased expectation of political engagement from creative industries. \u201cArtists are at the forefront of culture,\u201d Joy says simply, \u201cI think people are starting to tap into that and realise that\u00a0musicians have a platform\u00a0to actually say what they\u2019re thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should politics and music really mix?<\/h2>\n<p>Leave politics to the politicians, the disillusioned might say. \u201cIt is shouting from the darkness,\u201d Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke has claimed, a form of \u201cmechanistic\u201d online manipulation that leads to \u201csocial media witchhunts\u201d. To this, I\u2019d say, no wonder Roger Waters has deemed him a \u201ctimid little man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Pearson points me towards\u00a0No Music for Genocide, the geo-blocking boycott initiative that the likes of Paramore, Lorde, Idles, and Bj\u00f6rk, as well as Pearson and over a thousand more musicians, are a part of. The action is modelled on the success of cultural boycotts during the apartheid era in South Africa, a reminder that equal existence cannot be constituted without an unending string of unified protest.<\/p>\n<p>Frizzi, too, shares that Day of the Girl has raised almost \u00a3250,000 across four years, which goes directly to financial aid, job training, specialist mental health support, and more. She notes a positive trend in artists\u2019 investment in charity in the last few years, too. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of concrete help that comes from the industry, from artists,\u201d she boasts, \u201cAnd it\u2019s growing\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cArtists are really pulling their weight, and it does make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Frizzi<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>There are options at every level: bands can get free card readers at their shows to encourage small donations on the door; they can add \u00a31 to every ticket as a non-negotiable charitable donation; QR codes erected on the stage can encourage charitable engagement; merch donations are a huge help. For example, Westside Cowboy, an up-and-coming Manchester band that wowed Glastonbury audiences this year, has been donating a percentage of merch sales to charity.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a sentiment that we\u2019re fighting not just the tragedies overseas, but the depiction of activism and allyship as a form of surface-level political engagement, usually shrouded in a digital cloak: the \u2018reblog, re-share, like, subscribe, done for the day\u2019 mentality.<\/p>\n<p>Music has always weeded out the weak, as, historically, it\u2019s always been an industry where the going gets going, because releases won\u2019t push themselves out. We need these people to show up doubly in times of humanitarian crisis and that time is now.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-797727\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-819x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-912x1140.jpg 912w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP-150x188.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-KJP.jpg 960w\" alt=\"A cry from inside Day of the Girl- Inclusivity, allyship, and being a woman in music\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/div><figcaption title=\"(Credits: Far Out \/ Seren Carys)\">(Credits: Far Out \/ Seren Carys)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is the industry\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>that sexist?<\/h2>\n<p>Sure, you might say, being a woman in music is hard, but Chappell Roan won big at the Brit Awards this year, and Shakira took home two Grammys in February, so what\u2019s all the fuss? I raise you this: look back at those harrowing videos of Lola Young collapsing on stage in New York, clinging to her crew as she is shuffled off the stage. Look again. All men.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a study by\u00a0<em>Women in Live Music<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>has estimated that the percentage of female crew in the industry is well under ten per cent in Europe. Pearson\u2019s experience paints the same picture: \u201cI\u2019ve done so many tours where I\u2019ve been the only woman,\u201d she says, \u201cNot having female camaraderie on the road can be really debilitating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She shares that her music journey began when she was only 15, when two very powerful male managers picked her up. She was \u201cso young, and so naive\u201d, attempting to understand a complicated power dynamic. As recently as 2024, a staggering 81% of women have\u00a0said\u00a0that navigating the music industry is harder for them than it is for men, and it is decidedly so.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the historical image of the music agent as a man with a drooping cigar, receding hairline, heavy-set brows, and his feet up on a desk, puffing to an invisible tune, and contrast it to how I see Joy smiling gently at me in front of a wall of framed family photographs. The agent role is an \u201cextremely tough, extremely cutthroat, extremely male-dominated role. It takes a certain personality type\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou have to battle to make yourself heard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Katy J Pearson<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Joy talks lived realities, too: agent roles, as well as sound engineers, lighting engineers, tour managers, and so on, are impacted by pregnancy. It\u2019s \u201creally difficult to take a year out and get back into it with the same client base. You\u2019re going to lose work\u201d. It\u2019s near impossible to balance being a sole caregiver in an industry so demanding, so controlled by male privilege.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s another way to look at this, Joy insists, noting, \u201cI sometimes think the female agents are, you know, great at their jobs, because they do understand their artists more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a little more pessimistic about the industry at large, dreary from ubiquitous displays of male favouritism, egotism and violence. Still, Joy provides a welcome dose of hope. My voice, I say, is wearied from shouting twice as loud to be heard half as much. We hear you, she insists: \u201cI\u2019ve been in the industry for near 20 years now, and there\u2019s more women than ever. It\u2019s getting better, slowly\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-797772\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-819x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-912x1140.jpg 912w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote-150x188.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Quote.jpg 960w\" alt=\"A cry from inside Day of the Girl- Inclusivity, allyship, and being a woman in music - Far Out Magazine\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/div><figcaption title=\"(Credits: Far Out)\">(Credits: Far Out)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does meaningful allyship from men look like?<\/h2>\n<p>By now, we all know the problem, but how exactly can things change? It ends right back where it started, with meaningful, impactful allyship from men. A strange fact came into focus as we leaned on each other for support: Behind each of our careers was a\u00a0man opening the door for us. This isn\u2019t a sign of weakness, but rather a sign of the times.<\/p>\n<p>Coveted roles are consistently exclusive because of the exclusionary way we guard them, but creating is an inherently collaborative process, so if you have a door in front of you, open it, and hold it open. Pearson links this to her own production experience, reflecting on a time in her career when she became interested in the record process. \u201cOne of my friends said simply, \u2018You can come and shadow me\u2019. No one had ever said that to me before. There\u2019s always been a barrier. I never knew removing the barrier could be so simple,\u201d she expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Joy shares some foundational considerations from an agent\u2019s perspective: \u201cFirstly, make sure you have a woman on your team, whether that\u2019s within PR, management, or the label\u201d. Bands should actively seek out women to represent them and include all forms of diversity. War Child\u2019s secret? Around 95% of the office is led by women, hence their record-breaking profits seem less surprising now.<\/p>\n<p>Second, an all-male line-up should be a thing of the past: \u201cThe worst thing you can do as a male band these days is have an all-male show and tour\u201d. Seek out a support act that includes female, trans, and non-binary artists. In 2024, a\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em>\u00a0study found that 92% of headlining festival slots in Europe were male, and this number won\u2019t shift unless the men on the pedestal want it to.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson shares the male benefit of this approach, with her all-male band embarking upon lengthy tours with her, where she noted them being \u201cmore empathetic on the road\u201d. It strikes us, then, that much of these tipping-the-scale initiatives teaches foundational ethics that might have been understood from an early age. Pearson says what we\u2019re all thinking: \u201cIt\u2019s all about just like early exposure for men to, from a young age, learn from women and build up skills that they are missing, emotional, regulatory skills that make them just more empathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Education is a means of eradicating the seeds of sexist ideologies before they grow into something sinister.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-797706\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-819x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-912x1140.jpg 912w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster-150x188.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/10\/A-cry-from-inside-Day-of-the-Girl-Inclusivity-allyship-and-being-a-woman-in-music-Far-Out-Magazine-Poster.jpg 960w\" alt=\"A cry from inside Day of the Girl- Inclusivity, allyship, and being a woman in music\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/div><figcaption title=\"Event Poster (Credits: Day of the Girl)\">Event Poster (Credits: Day of the Girl)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yard Act and the paradoxical agency of choice<\/h2>\n<p>When I asked Pearson what it\u2019s like to watch others react to sexism in the industry, she is quick to praise those who prove their unwavering allyship. \u201cIn the backstage green area, where you might see a person that\u2019s been accused of sexual assault, I felt really safe with [Yard Act]. I\u2019ve always found them to be a safe place to go.\u201d Pearson\u2019s discography boasts collaborative efforts with the likes of Metronomy and\u00a0Yard Act, the latter of whom she worked with in 2024 on their single \u2018When The Laughter Stops\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson spotlights an uncomfortable truth here: the industry is difficult for women not just on a symbolic representational level, but because it can be dangerous. In fact, the \u2018Be The Change: Women Making Music\u2019 survey identified the main challenge for women in the industry as persistent sexual harassment. In a world that typically runs in the nighttime, in the drunken spaces of dancefloors and dressing rooms, sexual violence is an insidious force rooted in the foundations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important, then, to praise the bands, like Yard Act, who are getting it right, not just quietly, but with their battalions at the ready. However, Pearson\u2019s choice to join forces with a similarly politically-engaged group garnered some unusual attention. The singer-songwriter shares that she received plenty of comments asking why she had chosen to \u201ccollaborate with so many men\u201d. We groan in unison as she adds, \u201cCan we never get anything right? It just feels so counterproductive to challenge a woman on her decisions for her career\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When the conversation finally ends and the screen goes black, I find myself staring at my own reflection, breathing in slowly the realisation that while I am a woman in a male-dominated industry, I am connected to these incredible women, and to this incredible cause, because we know that better is out there. And it begins with you.<\/p>\n<p>Buy tickets for the Day of the Girl events\u00a0here. Be sure to check out Girli at London\u2019s Oslo on October 9th, English Teacher at Liverpool\u2019s Hanger 34 on October 10th, and Katy J Pearson at London\u2019s 100 Club on October 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Morrison said all good art is political. Music is\u00a0culture, and culture\u00a0is\u00a0the world, which is the politics that shape us. 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