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Grace Bowers has announced she's returning to YouTube on her own terms, months after she left the platform.
In April, wunderkind Bowers announced that misogyny had led her to quit YouTube. “Bye YouTube,” she wrote. “I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here. I’m no longer interested in playing blues or whatever the hell keeps attracting yall. Im done.”
However, Bowers now seems to be launching a new era. A couple of days ago, the guitarist announced that she’s coming back to the platform, with a couple of changes that reflect her growth and reflections on the music industry.
“Let’s try this again huh? I’m making changes,” she writes on her official YouTube community page. “I’m not bothered by just comments, I’m bothered by the things I had to deal with irl. Things I didn’t think about when I was 14 posting videos for fun.
“I’m not a prodigy. I’m not carrying a torch. Im not here for old heads to sexualize me, as I have been for the past few years. I’m creating music I have never felt is so true to who I am.”
Bowers goes on to say that she’s now crafting “music for the girls in the front row. Not the weird dude w a tripod tryna look up my shorts”.
As she puts it, “I’m not letting anyone push me around anymore. I’ve been thru a lot this year as I get ready to turn 20 next month. You’re either in it w me or not. I’m not who you want me to be, and I can’t wait for this next era of music.”
In a follow-up post, Bowers also confirmed that she's going to start posting videos again soon, but warned: “No more guitar content idc we onto new thing.”
And speaking of moving beyond guitar videos, earlier this year she shared that she’s ditching the blues label she’s been known for so far and leaning more heavily into rock and punk.
“There’s a lot of really awesome bands out right now. I just met The Linda Lindas – I’m a huge fan of them, and Amyl And The Sniffers, Lambrini Girls,” she said.
"Rock bands are coming back. You have Geese and Yungblud… it’s super-inspiring to me. I’m like, ‘What can I add to this?’ What I have is not straight-ahead rock; it’s very modern-sounding.”
In more recent news, Bowers spec’d out her dream SG – teasing what a potential signature Gibson could look like.
