First heard early last month with 'Fist Fight', Luxembourg-based alt-pop chanteuse Karma Catena now debuts her second single as C’est Karma.
The 18-year-old singer-songwriter delivers a track that’s led by her throaty, tender vocal and dappled acoustic guitars, but beneath the apparent lightness lies a message that’s altogether more serious, written in response to her own personal experiences of having supposedly enjoyable beach trips ruined by objectifying, unwanted gazes.
“I feel particularly exposed and vulnerable on beaches,” she says. “These stares make me feel even more self-conscious; I feel like prey when I can feel an unknown man’s eyes scan my body. This is what this song’s about: it’s about men we don’t know that have the power to make us feel uneasy.
“Growing up, I was always taught how to protect myself, how to dress in order not to be sexually assaulted, how to behave decently. Because as a society, we still silently accept that women are always responsible for how they’re perceived. We rarely hold men accountable for their creepy stares,” Karma continues. “The truth about dress codes is that they’re mostly put in place for women - so that they dress ‘properly’ and don’t show too much skin - and it’s this exact mentality that precedes the victim-blaming culture that we see today.”
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