Recently reformed girl group All Saints have revealed that they experienced a lot of sexism in the music industry when they first formed. 

The women explained that if they didn't feel like smiling or turned down an interview, they would be considered "stroppy cows" by the press:

"A lot of Britpop groups at the time would act very arrogantly and very stroppy, but that was never seen as a negative thing. We weren't half as bad - but if we didn't want to smile one day, or we weren't really interested in doing an interview, we'd be labelled as stroppy cows."

Shaznay went onto add that there was one incident where producers wanted them to take their tops off so it gave the illusion that they were performing in the nude: "They were filming images of us to use as a backdrop and they wanted us to take our tops off."

Natalie and Melanie added: "The vision was that we looked naked and we didn't want that vision. But because it was such a huge show, we were told 'if you don't do it, you don't get to go on the show.' The girl that worked with us was in tears because she was trying to fight our corner. We ended up having to compromise with the producers. We dropped our tops to here [indicating her armpits] so it would look like we were topless."

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