Bad Gyal has been awarded the Woman of the Year award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2024 and that is why the magazine itself has featured her on the cover of the new monthly issue.
With more than 11.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, 22 platinum records and 6 gold records, the Catalan singer has established herself as a indispensable figure in the musical panorama contemporary and is an internationally recognized star that transcends social strata, ages and nationalities.
“I am a woman with power, so In contexts surrounded by men I feel a lot of respect. In that sense, I have that privilege that perhaps a girl who is just starting out, but also because I have earned it through work and experience,” notes the artist in the interview granted to the aforementioned magazine.
Related to the role of women in society, Bad Gyal assures that we cannot wait for “the cisheterosexual man to stop thinking the way he has been thinking all his life.” “The great changes that have occurred in the history of humanity have occurred when the affected person himself has said ‘fuck it up the ass’“, he clarifies.
Regarding his professional project, among which his first album stands out, The Joy,—the name that also gives the title to her documentary—the Catalan admits that she feels very confident in what she does, although the feeling she has about it is “bittersweet.” “I am very proud of the result both musically and visually, but I hope my next album will be a little easier and it’s another different experience,” he adds.
Bad Gyal is an artist who has made a strong impact within the industry, so in terms of becoming a reference for women of her generation, the Catalan recognizes that feel pressure and She has been an artist that people have had a “hard time accepting.”
“People will remember my looks, some songs and the memes and jokes. I know it sounds very fat because the one who discovers the cure for cancer makes history, me singing ‘toto’, ‘porro’ and ‘culo’ is like: ‘Let’s see girl, get your bearings’. Although, well, they do call me ‘queen’, ‘goddess’, ‘icon’… I feel like I have many things to do to be iconic”he alleges.
With this, Bad Gyal arrives at a reflection: “It is nice to live in this moment after all this time in which I am being accepted more in those more pop and more conventional strata, without giving up my identity“.