Why Zyrah Rose of BGT Are So Important.

Last night, girl group Zyrah Rose (ranging in ages from 25-28) wowed audiences nation-wide with their cover of Ed Sheeran's "I See Fire".

As they step out onto the stage, judge Amanda Holden gives a cry of "they're hot" and well, she's not wrong. Each woman is tall, slender, and sporting an outfit that shows off their figures to their full advantages, but what's new there where girl bands are concerned? What makes Zyrah Rose any different from the rest of the female music industry, as image-focused as it is?

Zyrah Rose are women.

It sounds stupid, doesn't it? Of course they're women, we've established this from the very first line. But from the moment that they stepped out onto the stage it was clear that they were something that the music industry hasn't seen for a very long time. They weren't women dressed as little girls, singing saccharine-sweet pop music. Here was a girl band that was confident, sexy, feminine, yet unapologetically classy.

These were the cool girls on the playground that you wanted to be when you grew up, and not because they had the most friends, or the latest trends, or boys fancied them, but because they knew who they were and weren't afraid of that person. Zyrah Rose are the role-models I want little girls to look up to, not women dressed as children one minute, then uncomfortably shoved into matching lingerie on stage the next.

Zyrah Rose emanate an aura of feminism that I feel hasn't been present in girl bands for decades. Complete with their synchronised hand movements that could give even Westlife a run for their money, they are what the music industry is sorely missing. I wish big things for these girls in the future.

(You can watch their audition for Britain's Got Talent here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuGuSzt5u3c )

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