Sarah McLachlan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I just never understood or liked the competitive nature of it.
You know, I didn't think music...
should be put into those kind of pigeonholes.
I didn't think we as artists should be.
I certainly didn't notice it happening with men and that pissed me off as well.
So though it didn't start out as a political statement, it'd be kind of, you know, it'd be kind of came, became that when I was told you can't do that.
Oh yeah, that doesn't work for me.
We proved our point in 1996 and then went, oh my gosh, this was so amazing and so fun.
Let's do a full tour next summer.
And that was the point at which just like, oh yeah, no, you can't do that.
Promoters would not take any risk.
They were like, you can't do that.
And we just sold out 15,000 people.
And they were like, well, that's a one-off.