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you can hear there’s a band that’s very good good, but really how have they progressed in portant over the years whether on social media
at playing rock music and love playing rock themselves? They’re the beautiful person in or in regards to business.
music. You can hear that in there, so it’s not the nightclub but it’s a bit of a curse. If there “I think sex and beauty are the number one
like it’s all dark. Happiness and happy songs – are no brains behind your beauty it can be your ways to sell anything and I think women have
there’s a lot of people doing that. We’re not the curse absolutely. If you are someone who can suffered because of that actually,” says Skin.
type of band that’s going to write ‘Yeah, we’re use your beauty to get on but actually don’t “Men can still get away with a lot but women
going to party’, I think there are lots of other learn any skills along the way, in some ways still have to be very beautiful to be successful.”
bands or groups or pop stars that can go and that’s in your job… the beautiful reality star, How about beauty in rock music? Skin
do that. For us it has to be a lot deeper. It has that can earn you a lot of money, but it can also says, “I think there are a lot more girls coming
to be more meaningful. It has to ring true.” be a curse because it means that you have to up now that are Deep Valley, I like Milk Teeth.
expose yourself so much in order to get on. I think the indie girl is a reaction to the pop girl
ne of our favourite songs is ‘Beauty Is And there comes a point when you’ve exposed in many ways because the indie girl is “I’m not
OYour Curse’. Skin tells Black Velvet so much about your personal life that there’s going to look like that, I’m not going to dress
about it. “That song is actually about a few dif- no going back and even if you want to go back like that,” and in the same way you’ve had 15
ferent people. I have a house in Ibiza and have you can’t because your whole existence and years of the pop girl wearing the net knickers
been going to Ibiza for 20-odd years and Ibiza your whole money and your career is based on on stage and a bra and all that kind of stuff,
is full of the beautiful people and there are cer- that. There’s a little bit of that in there. There’s which is totally cool by the way, I think there’s
tain people I’ve known for a long time that their also people I’ve met who never develop their also a reaction to that which is the indie girl and
job has just been ‘the beautiful person in the characters because they’re beautiful.” there are a lot more girls getting in bands now
nightclub’ and that makes the nightclub look It seems that beauty has become more im- and doing screamy, angsty music which I love

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