Olivia Rodrigo comes out of the silence. In recent weeks, the singer found herself at the heart of an online debate, after she appeared on stage in “babydoll” style dresses, outfits that Internet users have strongly sexualized on social networks.
“I felt good and comfortable like that”: Olivia Rodrigo confides
This May 28, she spoke about the controversy in the “New York Times” podcast. “What’s really disturbing is that I feel like I’ve worn racy outfits on stage. I went on stage in a glittery bra and little shorts, which is my right. I felt good and comfortable like that. And it wasn’t “inappropriate”, but me, completely covered in a dress that people consider childish, was “inappropriate”. “, she laments. “It just shows how much we really normalize pedophilia in our culture,” she adds.
Despite herself, she found herself at the heart of a controversy. A situation that she had not imagined: “I didn’t think I looked sexy in that at all. I said to myself: ‘It’s so cool. I feel like I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love – all these people who are my heroines, and I felt cool and comfortable in them.” HAS”
Olivia Rodrigo is “very protective of young women and girls”
A heavy situation for Olivia Rodrigo, an acknowledged feminist. In 2023, she announced the creation of “Fund 4 Good”, a global initiative aimed at supporting the fight for an equitable future for women and girls around the world, and whose funds raised support organizations defending girls’ education, reproductive rights and the prevention of gender-based violence.
“It’s just this rhetoric that is hammered into us from a very young age, namely: “Don’t wear that, otherwise a man will sexualize your body and it will be your fault†. […] I’m just very protective of young women and girls, and I just don’t want them to be given that speech,” she explains on “Popcast.”
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