Pop singer Kate Nash has said her decision to join OnlyFans is about “agency” and to raise awareness of the dire situation many artists face, at the same time rejecting critics who have called her decision “sad”.
Over the weekend, Nash announced that she had launched a “Butts for Tour Buses” campaign, citing rising costs of travel, accommodation, food, promotion and crew.
Speaking to The Independent, Nash, 37, called it a “spur of the moment thing” that transpired after a frank conversation with her accountant.
Basically they told me that these tours are crushing me,” the “Foundations” singer said. “I was really stressed, and I needed a solution. So I thought of putting my bum online because I flash it around quite a bit, I have a great derriere and I get a lot of compliments. And I thought it’d be a funny way to start the tour.”
Nash said she didn’t realise her decision would “cause such a stir” but said she believed it was a positive thing for the industry: “It’s literally funding my tour. Shining a light on my ass is shining a light on the issue [of funding] in the music industry.”
She added that the reaction so far has been “overwhelmingly supportive”, with just a few “non-liberal feminists” criticising her decision: “But I’m a grown woman, I can do whatever I want,” she said. “I’m happy to profit from my great bum – I’m reinvesting in myself and my creative economies because I want to do things properly, I want to pay my crew.”
Earlier this year, Nash’s fellow pop star Lily Allen launched her own OnlyFans account, on which she has been sharing photos of her feet to subscribers.
The decision initially started as a joke on her hit BBC podcast, Miss Me? with her longtime friend, TV presenter Miquita Oliver. However, Allen recently revealed that she now makes more money from her feet pictures on OnlyFans than she does through streams of her music on Spotify.
“Imagine being [an] artist and having nearly eight million monthly listeners on Spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet,” she posted on X/Twitter.
