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BBC Radio Newcastle - Kelly Scott on BBC Radio Newcastle, 20/01/2024, Moloko voicalist Roisin Murphy chats about her new single and successful solo career
Interview in Irish Times a few days earlier:
Life couldn’t get any better, as she says. But it was about to get a lot worse.
Just a few months after walking through Arklow on top of the world, the former Moloko frontwoman became entangled in a debate about trans rights, cancel culture and the fury women are subjected to on the internet. That August a Twitter user shared screenshots of comments she had made on her private Facebook account about the use of puberty blockers by transgender children.
The leaked remarks spread like a bushfire on social media. The singer has a lot of LGTBQ+ fans; many were taken aback and wondered if it was a hoax. It was not. Several days later Murphy commented publicly for the first time.
“I’ve spent my whole life celebrating diversity and different views ... I am so sorry my comments have been directly hurtful to many of you ... I understand fixed views are not helpful but I really hope people can understand my concern was out of love for all of us.” She said that she would “now completely bow out of this conversation within the public domain ... My true calling is music and music will never exclude any of us.”
If she hoped to put the matter to rest, she had miscalculated. A review of Hit Parade in the Guardian was headlined “A masterful album with an ugly stain”. On August 31st Fader Magazine reported that Ninja Tune would cease promoting Hit Parade. The BBC seemed to have stopped playing her music. (The Spectator magazine defended Murphy, calling the Guardian’s review shameful.)
[ Róisín Murphy: Hit Parade - Joyful songs about not taking life for granted ]
It was a challenging time. But then Hit Parade became her highest-charting LP in the UK, peaking at number five. (In Ireland it reached number 11.) That momentum has carried through to 2024. “The ticket sales have been the best they’ve ever been for me on this tour,” says Murphy, who is playing two sold-out nights at 3Olympia in Dublin this weekend. “That’s including Moloko and everything. That’s a good sign.”
Looking back, how does she feel about the controversy? “It was a bit of a weird one.” She is still sensitive about the subject and keen to move on – even when politely pressed. “Here I am. Months later, going off on tour. And I’m pretty good. I’m in a good place.”
She acknowledges that becoming caught up in an internet controversy is a strange experience. “It’s like you’re looking at a big board. Nodes lighting up in that corner. And then a few nodes lighting in up that corner. And suddenly it’s spreading and you can’t control [it]. But that’s the nature of the internet. You have to take the good with the bad. And the good for me has been good. I’m happy to take the bad, I think, in a way, with the good.”
Did she worry that, after the dust settled, she might not have a career?
“Mate, are you really going to ask endless questions about this?” she says. (We had said that we would need to ask about the controversy but didn’t intend to dwell on it.) “I have a whole career to talk about – not just five minutes last year. I 100 per cent don’t want to talk about it.”
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