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Sexual violence: "My arrival in music was traumatic", denounces Apple

2021-02-12T05:25:27.019Z


As the MusicToo movement shakes the music world, singer Pomme, who is nominated for the Victoires de la musique this Friday so


A few hours before the Victoires de la Musique, where she was named this Friday evening in the category "female artist of the year", the singer Apple denounces this Thursday on the Médiapart site sexist and sexual violence in music.

"I decided to say it," begins his open letter.

To no longer let fear reign […] From my 15 to my 17 years, I was manipulated, harassed morally and sexually.

My arrival in the music industry was traumatic.

Umpteenth victim of a dangerous system of oppression.

Even more dangerous for queer, disabled and racialized women.

"

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Without naming it, the singer of 24 years and two albums says to have been the victim of a man of 30 years, "shaped according to his fantasies and psychological deviations".

“I didn't choose anything about my life, my appearance, or the artistic direction of my own emerging musical project at the time.

I was manipulated to the point of completely losing my self-confidence.

She quotes violent phrases, like "Be sexier, less child" and "I should have fucked you".

A long awareness

As her letter was published, we were in the middle of a phone conversation on the #MusicToo movement, which she has supported on several occasions, including wearing a badge during the Festival des festivals last summer with her friends Camélia Jordana and Jeanne Added. .

This position is therefore not surprising, but why speak out now?

"" I had already spoken about it a few years ago, she replies.

But I didn't have the same exposure at all.

Today, I hope it will make more noise.

It also took me four years to realize that this was not normal.

However, it had been extremely violent, I had attacks of intense anorexia.

"

This letter, she is writing today also for the other victims.

“This environment both fascinates and disgusts me,” she admits.

There is protection around quite a few men, who are rich, powerful, sometimes famous, as if that exempted them from being judged like Mr. Dupont.

When I see what is happening to Safia

(Editor's note: Nolin, her singer friend)

in Quebec.

She denounced a very famous host, rich, beautiful, and it is her career which is ultra impacted while this woman is returning to television soon.

Quebec is however more secure on a daily basis for a woman.

"

"I still see plenty of aggressors in the evenings"

“The atmosphere is better in France than when I started six years ago, recognizes the artist, who spends his life between France and Quebec.

Sexism is no longer a taboo, it is now a subject.

MusicToo, everyone is talking about it, but I think it will take time for such a social fight, especially in the midst of a global pandemic, to be won.

If we really want music to be a safe place, some unhealthy men will have to move out of positions of power.

I still see plenty of attackers in the evenings.

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Apple admits to having hoped with the MusicToo movement and the denunciations that followed a "rapid revolution in record companies".

“But it will be case by case and it will be slow,” she predicts.

Change must also come from us women.

The patriarchal system in our society is so powerful that it has always made us hate each other, be jealous of each other, be afraid of each other.

If we manage to love each other, to help each other, we will rebalance the situation.

But the sorority between singers is progressing and that reassures me.

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Source: leparis

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