Alex Lahey was among the most spoken ablout at Big Sound in Brisbane the Australian Equivalent of SXSW and naturally some of that talk amounted to comparisons between the 24-year-old Melbourne singer-songwriter and homegrown star Courtney Barnett.
Sure, both Lahey and Barnett are young, Australian based singer-songwriters known for their wry and observational lyricism, or as Lahey herself says, “We’re both Australian women with brown hair who play Telecasters.” , as Lahey’s concern, it’s not only lazy but also sexist to compare the two of us. “I’m just not convinced that those comparisons would be happening if I was a guy.
“I’m a huge fan of Courtney I think she’s one of the best songwriters in the world and her values and what she stands for are beautiful and brilliant, so I’m humbled to be compared to that. But I don’t think that it’s accurate, especially from a musical perspective, we play very different types of music.”
The songwriter studied saxophone at uni and works as a session saxophonist. She picked up a guitar at 13 and began teaching herself, writing songs because other people’s were too hard to learn.
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