The singer-songwriter on her religious upbringing, the “cult-like” Australian music industry – and what makes her work sexy.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Sarah Blasko. The singer-songwriter, 48, has been nominated for 18 ARIA Awards and won three. Her new album,Sarah Blasko: “The way they’d talk about sex at the youth group was that it was just off-limits. I was told such negative things.”That you go to heaven or hell. I grew up really religious.
] But even at the time, I think I knew that it was too simplistic, too black-and-white. When I was a teenager, I had great friends who had nothing to do with religion and I was sure they wouldn’t be going to hell just because they didn’t believe in God.When I was about 16, my sister and I just basically told our parents, “We think this is wrong” and we all just stopped going . Our parents listened to us. But what really did it for me was when my mum died when I was 23.
In some ways, a lot of things haven’t changed. It’s very cult-like in the way that it operates: there are a lot of big-hitters who rule the industry and nobody wants to upset them because then their career will be over in two seconds. Power structures remain. But they’ve had to show signs of change even if they’re superficial. But I don’t really engage with the music industry; I haven’t felt part of it for most of my career.
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