Cheryl Cole: ‘You shouldn’t have to sexualise yourself to be selling music’

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On being a sexy popstar:

The music industry is dominated by men behind the scenes. And older men, too. I mean, sexy and all that is great to an extent, but you shouldn’t have to sexualise yourself to be selling music. Girls Aloud wore some short skirts and some outfits that were quite sexy, but we were singing ‘I’m just a love machine’ and ‘Something kinda ooh, jumping on my tutu’. It was fun, it was quirky, it wasn’t trying to be sexual. I would never do something I didn’t want to do, or get told that’s the ‘lane’ to be in at the moment. The lane. Everyone is competing in the same lane. F­**k off, I’d rather be in my own lane.