Stella Donnelly flies in the face of adversity

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Stella Donnelly flies in the face of adversity

Donnelly has a high-wattage personal energy, impeccable manners, and a willingness to address emotional turmoil in a way that feels as if sharing a personal issue is an act of friendship, not an isolating confession. She says we carry difficulties not as a burden but as an inducement – it’s how we gain the insight, empathy and compassion that will eventually improve us.

One example is Boys Will Be Boys, Donnelly’s coruscating breakthrough single from 2017 which begins with a friend revealing her sexual assault and encompasses, with scathing economy, the culture of victim-blaming and a father excusing his son for his crime.

Contrast is really important, in music and in the everyday.

“As tough as it is singing Boys Will Be Boys five nights a week, I’ve accepted it and let it be with me and hopefully have it do some good,” says Donnelly, who wrote the song in 2015, two years before the #MeToo movement re-emerged, and released a video clip for it a few days before the New York Times revealed the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

Donnelly expected the song to “fall on deaf ears” but, through Triple J, Boys Will Be Boys found a foothold before catching the tenor of these fractious time. The subsequent touring kept matching Donnelly’s solo shows to historic moments: she played in Dublin the day Ireland voted in a referendum to liberalise abortion, and had a gig in Texas hours after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed for the US Supreme Court.


Old Man, the patriarchal condemnation and recent first single from Beware of the Dogs, was a response to the online trolls and misogynists that pursue Donnelly. She didn’t want to step back from how she felt in the face of abuse – “I had to make sure I continued,” she says – but what she’s also come to value over the past 18 months is the converts her music can make.

“I had a really beautiful man call Triple J and say, ‘I’m in my harvester out in the middle of the country and when Boys Will Be Boys came on I stopped and broke down into tears and I’m going straight back to my house to play this song to my children’,” Donnelly says. “As an artist that’s all you can ask for as a response.”

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Stella Donnelly’s album Beware of the Dogs.Credit:

Donnelly grew up inspired by her mother, a nurse from Wales who came to Australia in her 20s and would make sure she talked to her daughters about what was happening in the world each day after school. “My mum’s still a punk,” Donnelly sings above the dreamy jangle of Season’s Greetings, and as a teenager she got her own musical start playing in a feminist punk band that would scream its way through every song.

“There are still moments in my music where you can yell, but I feel like creating a welcoming arrangement is a winning situation, in the same way that I want people to laugh at my follies,” Donnelly says. “Contrast is really important, in music and in the everyday. If I sat down opposite you and yelled in your face about what should be done to fix the world and matched my body language to my loud voice, I feel like I’d only get one-tenth of my message across to you. Sometimes you have to create a comfortable space for what’s uncomfortable.”




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