She said, ‘I will teach you to hustle so that you can hire people to wash dishes for you, because I know you don’t like dishes, and I won’t force you to because I am not bringing you up for marriage.’ And I'm exactly that girl.
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That mental space is not necessarily free because it still comes from a very compressed point of view. The people who are bringing up the people who look up to my music are those that had to carry a dompas. I don’t undermine that because you‘re literally performing for people who have always had freedom and you’re coming from a space that’s not always free. I’ve been touring for five years overseas, before being commercially successful in South Africa as an alternative artist, because it’s so refreshing to see something new, and in South Africa it’s so scary to see something new. That’s why I started touring before I made it commercially in South Africa. In South Africa they asked me, what the fuck is this? In Europe, they eat me the fuck up. What is the perception of your music in Europe compared to Africa?
This album is everything I’ve ever worked towards. I’ve always done things for my soul and my business. There are those who know I never stopped. The people who know me from Rabulapha! are the alternative kids – it’s the different kids, the black sheep, the ones who just want to do their own thing, the expressive ones, the individuals. And this is the person who’s not necessarily just strategic, because I study markets I move accordingly and that’s why I‘m always on radio stations around the world. What I’ve always wanted to do is ultimately bring people to know exactly who I am. My fans, from whenever they decided to be fans, are all included in this body of work.
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The difference is, I was not this big and I’m now in a position where I’ve come full 360 commercially. What differentiates your previous album Rabulapha! from Phases and what have you improved on musically? My themes are the general liberation of women and having a voice all the time.
I always say this, ‘It’s already an adventure sport being a woman.’ This album does not celebrate women’s success based on societal expectations. I celebrate sadness, I celebrate happiness, I celebrate us in different shades. They’re always working towards something but society deems it as nothing. I love them getting what’s due to them because the girls are working and they’re actually so smart. I’ve got everything to do with strippers, and I love celebrating them. I’ve got nothing to do with the marriage I’m being realistic about what we are as women and our choices.
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I’ve got a song for a side chick to get her mac on a married man. That’s why on the album I celebrate the side chick. We go through different phases as women in general, and therefore every part is actually okay. But for women on their own, they will be like, ‘I know what that motherfucker made me feel like’, and actually on this record, it’s acceptable. For instance, if there’s a woman who feels mad and it evokes the feeling of them being a stalker, you will call them a stalker. MOONCHILD SANELLY: This album basically celebrates every shade of women. MUSIC IN AFRICA: What message are you sending in Phases and what inspired the project’s title? Music In Africa spoke to Moonchild, who is the pioneer of her self-coined genre “future ghetto punk”, about her 19-track album, her image, the objectification of women in music, and how her sound is perceived outside Africa. On her latest album Phases, Moonchild stands tall by breaking social norms and boundaries. Moonchild knows what people expect a successful woman to look like, but gives no quarter when expressing her views on female empowerment and sexuality. With somewhat revealing outfits in her music videos, at performances and on social media, the ‘Yebo Mama’ hitmaker demonstrates that it takes a strong woman to attain independence.
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