Sarah Blasko, Holly Throsby and Sally Seltmann on ageing in the industry – and not giving up

The Seeker Lover Keeper songwriters hit 40 and, just for a moment, felt they were done with music

Australia might know her best as the pash-rashed netballer Sharon Strezlecki from Kath and Kim, but Magda Szubanski got to play a very different kind of role recently: an older woman, “fierce and intense, warm and slightly wacky”, for the video clip to Seeker Lover Keeper’s single Let It Out.

Staring powerfully down the camera, alone on a tiny stage, making dramatic, emphatic gestures, she lip-syncs to Holly Throsby’s paper-delicate lyrics about speaking her truth. (“Having gone through the whole journey of coming out … I’ve felt like a butterfly shaking off a carapace,” Szubanski explained of her performance).

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