Raven-Symoné Left Music Industry Over Pressure To Wear Skimpy, Revealing Outfits: The More Naked You Are On Stage, The Better’

Raven-Symoné Left Music Industry Over Pressure To Wear Skimpy, Revealing Outfits: The More Naked You Are On Stage, The Better’

Raven-Symoné is opening up about why she walked away from the music industry, and it had nothing to do with talent.

In an interview on the Sorry We’re Cyrus podcast, hosted by #MileyCyrus’s mom Tish, the former #Disney star revealed she stepped away from her music career because the industry demanded increasingly revealing stagewear. “The mandatory outfit was a bathing suit, and I’m not going to get in one,” she said. Raven further explained, “I just felt there was a time in music where it was like, the more naked you are on stage, the better it is, and I’m not going to do that.”

She also touched on criticism she received from #HollywoodRecords over her physical appearance: “I had some back and forth with the record label that I was with. Somebody literally said to my mother, ‘She’s so fat. How can she do so long on stage?’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, cool beans.’ So we’re just gonna leave this and go on tour somewhere else.” However, Raven admitted that she sees it as a “blessing and a curse” that her singing career “never took off” like other #DisneyChannel stars’ due to the lack of “the machine behind me to push through.”

Now that times are a little different, should #RavenSymoné give music a second go?