Arriving via Kill Rock Stars, the powerful track sees the BRIT Award-winner calling out bigotry. It also serves as a response to the UK's Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. In a statement accompanying the song's release, she wrote:
"Using feminism to erase the rights of others is inherently un-feminist. Germ is my response to the recent news that the Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex and that the concept of sex is binary. Trans people were excluded from the conversation.
"I am left uneasy as I see behaviours we would otherwise or previously label as intolerance or bullying become normalised & even celebrated by the media & in society. I believe this will lead to more transphobia and more misogyny in the UK. I also believe it to be misdirected and not at all where feminist efforts should be focused. In fact, I don’t consider it to be feminist at all. The demonisation of entire groups of people, led by bad faith actors, is not a step forward but a huge echo of a past we should have moved on from.
"I owe so much of myself to feminism. Tarnishing the most important ideology in my life by denying the existence of trans women is something I take very personally.
"Denying that trans people exist and having a personal desire to remove them from public spaces because it makes you uncomfortable to share spaces with trans people is transphobic. Dismantling systems of oppression lies at the very core of feminism. If you are transphobic therefore you are not a feminist. Welcome to your rebrand GERM."
Hot on the heels of a sold-out UK and European tour, Nash will play London's Mighty Hoopla festival this Sunday (June 1), joined by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. She will also appear at Splendour in Nottingham on July 20, and Cardiff's Depot In The Castle on July 26 supporting Jess Glynne. Tickets are on sale now.
She released her fifth album, and first for Kill Rock Stars, '9 Sad Symphonies', in 2024.
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