The double standards that Black women often face in the music industry receive a double examination on Rachel Chinouriri and Cat Burns‘ new collaboration “Even.” The record calls into question the additional obstacles both artists have encountered while navigating their careers as indie and pop singer-songwriters coming out of the U.K. — and how those same barriers remain in place for non-white people across every industry.
“‘Even’ is about the injustice Black and POC people feel with identity in a world that can treat them foreign. Sometimes it feels like no matter what we do to fit in, we have to work twice as hard to take one step forward,” Chinouriri shared in a statement. “The limitations that Black people have had to go through are something every Black person has to accept at some point but this song questions how far we need to take it and it…
