The progressive metal singer is sick and tired of being pitted against other women in the scene.
Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk has unloaded on the term “female-fronted band”, saying that she’s sick of being piled in with other women in the heavy metal scene, even if she sounds nothing like them.
Talking in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Shmayluk says “we’re still going through this bullshit today” when asked what she thinks of the term “female-fronted band”.
She elaborates: “We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists, and I feel very, very fucking offended by that. Because some people, they cannot sing, they don’t hit the notes! Then I get people saying, ‘Oh, she’s doing better than you, she does it better than you, she has this personality, she has…’ Oh my god! Leave me alone! That kind of stuff really pisses me off.”
The singer adds that, when she started her career…
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