Roan spoke out against unfair labor practices within the music industry during her acceptance speech, saying:
“I told myself that if I ever won a Grammy and got to stand up here before the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and health care, especially to developing artists. I got signed so young—I got signed as a minor. When I got dropped, I had zero job experience under my belt, and like most people, I had… quite a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and [could not] afford insurance. It was devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and dehumanized. If my label had prioritized it, I could have been provided care for a company I was giving everything to. Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection.”
Stuff like this is why I don’t really watch rewards shows anymore. She’s not wrong, but I hate being preached at by people who are obscenely rich, just on general principle. The last person I’d listen to preach to me is someone who is famous, obscenely rich, and whining about it every time she opens her Instagram.
Thankfully the performances I want to see are on YT, so I don’t have to.
She wasn’t preaching at you, unless you’re a music executive
How dare she address the audience in front of her when she should have been thinking about you, who wasn’t in the audience, and in fact not even watching.
You are very special. This industry awards show and its members should have really considered your feelings.
Ok, snark off. Don’t watch awards shows. They’re not about you, or for you. They’re for industry circle jerking.
Eh. There’s a difference between those that became rich exploiting other people’s labor (see: most of the owning class), and those that used their own labor (see: prolific artists and performers). On occasion, rich people are just normal, good people that came into money. Chappell Roan is one such occasion.
I wouldnt even be so sure that she is insanely rich. Literally had one very successful album so far, and we dont know the contracts for that, i.e. how nuch she actually got from the money it made.