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Kate Nash calls out 'sexist' record shop after spotting 'females of all description' category

'Female is not a genre. Don't categorise my sex.'

Jess Denham
Thursday 01 September 2016 09:54 BST
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Kate Nash returned to the music scene last month with new song 'Good Summer'
Kate Nash returned to the music scene last month with new song 'Good Summer'

Singer Kate Nash has criticised a record shop for selling vinyls under a “females of all description” category.

The chart-topping songwriter best known for her Noughties hit “Foundations” posted a photo of the offensive labelling on Twitter last Sunday.

“This kinda s**t drives me insane,” she wrote beneath the picture. “The genre ‘females of all description’ is not a music genre. It’s sexist.”

In a series of angry further tweets, the 29-year-old argued that there would “never be a ‘males of all description’ section because the rest of the shop and all other music genres are considered male”.

“Female is not a genre,” she said. “Don’t categorise my sex.”


It remains unknown which record store Nash called out. She currently lives in Los Angeles although reports suggest she was in London at the weekend.

Nash returned earlier this month with new song “Good Summer”, her first fresh release since 2014’s “She Rules”. She will be playing a string of gigs next month, kicking off at London’s Oslo on 6 October before heading to Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds.

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