“It was early on that my passion for gender [parity] started,” she says. This awareness developed with her growing interest in music. When she watched videos of songs she liked, she would feel upset about the sexualising of women in them. She wondered why men were not objectified in these videos. “I don’t have a problem with male fantasy, but I do have a problem with the fact that the majority of what we see is normalised misogyny,” she says. “And there is nothing to balance that. That is why in my music, I am constantly trying to combat these norms and re-depict the world I wish we lived in.”
She is speaking from her mother’s house in New York, close on the heels of the release of her latest music video—Waiting For Me. The video, shot in India in February, encapsulates everything that Gandhi talks about in the interview and as a TED speaker. It is directed by Misha Ghose and produced by Aastha Singh with Chalk and Cheese Films. The video features 10 women who act out their journeys of gender and bias.
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