Being a Woman in Electronic Music | AlyV
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0:01AHow has it been for you being like a woman in the electronic music scene?
0:03BOh man, dude, I feel like -- I mean, it’s definitely like you notice there’s, you know, you’re outnumbered in a room, but I just like coming from, you know, I have just a little bit of a background where I’m like, I’m used to that. I feel like, you know, I was like, I was like such a tomboy when I was a kid and I played hockey. So it was like a lot of times I would like -- I played on boys’ teams until like I was like, you know, until you reach like your teen years where it becomes, you know what I mean? Like, it’s just a different game. But, um, yeah, dude, like, I’ve, I’ve just like, I don’t know, I try to like, I see like humans as humans no matter what. And it’s just like being a part of a team, which, you know, I guess you could think of like the EDM world as a team, although I know that’s not, you know what I mean? Like, that’s not, that’s probably, you know, it’s not like the most realistic, but it can be that way.
0:54ADo a lot of people look at it that way?
0:56BNo, I don’t think they do. I think I have a -- I feel like people are a little more guarded these days, like especially after COVID, and like are a little more judgmental of each other off the rip. Um, and I think there’s just -- things are tense right now because it’s a little bit hard, you know, it’s weird times. But again, it’s like --
1:17AIn terms of the music, like politics, the world politics?
1:20BWorld politics and like just the whole world situation. And yeah, politics has become like, unfortunately, such a, like, daily stressor in people’s lives, which is crazy, you know what I mean? So it’s really like, what a cool gift to be able to give people, you know, a fucking escape for an hour at a time, you know, and like maybe meet some of the coolest people they’ve ever met in their lives, you know, and whatever. Yeah. Just have a good time and literally escape that shit because I think that’s crazy. that we’re like living like this. But yeah, but I also -- that’s technology too, you know?
2:01AAbsolutely.
2:02BSo there’s a lot of change just in general going on right now, but
