Music’Nice try’ is the name of the first single by Charlotte Canoot (25), whoyou know from ‘Regi Academy’. A reference to her own love life. “How often domen think they can ‘convert’ me, or that I haven’t met the right one yet?” sheasks herself in ‘Hello All’.
While Charlotte took her chance in ‘Regi Academy’, she also worked behind thescenes under the name CHAR on her own single. “’Nice try’ is about my ownlife,” she says. “I like women, but most people who hear that fall completelyout of the blue.”
What will you hear?
Men who think they can ‘convert’ me, that I haven’t met the right one yet, orpeople who question my sexuality because I’m ‘so feminine’. As if only boyishgirls can be lesbian! Although I have to admit that I made that mistakemyself.
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Charlotte Canoot (right) in ‘Regi Academy’. © VTM
How so?
When my friends talked about handsome boys, I could never have a say. Thatdidn’t interest me, I didn’t feel what they felt. It was because I likedwomen, it didn’t get through to me. After all, I did not recognize myself inthe image of the outside world of the LGBTQ world, in which lesbian girlsoften have shorter hair, are boyish…
While you are just a very feminine type.
Voila. I like to sing and dance, have no interest in football. Maybe that’swhy I didn’t know any lesbian women, so it wasn’t until later, when I startedmy higher education, that I started to realize that I like women.
Can you blame the men who think you are ‘too feminine’ to be a lesbian?
Somehow I understand them. But I regret that I always have to defend myorientation. And I try to make that clear with my song: we do pretend as asociety that we are very open-minded, but when it comes to orientation, westill think very much in boxes.
Is that a problem?
Yes. For example: I am single. I’ve never had a really meaningful relationshipwith a woman and I find it quite difficult to date. I have a heterosexualgroup of friends and go to standard pubs and dances the way I like. But thereality is that much of the gay community has its own cafes and clubs. Thatmakes dating a lot easier, but why should I suddenly have to go to differentcafes than my friends? To find a lover? Well, at the moment I don’t lose sleepover my relationship status. When it comes, I’ll be happy, but to be honest,I’ve got my hands full with my musical career now.
Charlotte Canoot launches her first self-written song: ‘Nice try’. © rv
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