We don’t really know, honestly. Music is criminally underfunded in this country and some people feel as though if their favourite underground artist isn’t making it and another is, then there must be something nefarious or secretive going on. There are far fewer women than men in alternative music, so we all get compared to one another regardless of genre. There should be so much more room for women, POC, gender non-conforming, working class musicians, but that is the fault of the biased music industry, not the musicians themselves.