Chappell Roan made a significant assertion to the music trade gatekeepers throughout her 2025 Grammys acceptance speech Sunday evening (Feb. 2).
Roan carried out her hit tune “Pink Pony Membership” dwell in the course of the telecast, however it wasn’t the larger-than-life pink prop pony or Roan’s hovering vocals that dropped viewers’ jaws—it was her highly effective Greatest New Artist acceptance speech.
“I advised myself if I ever received a Grammy and I acquired to face up right here in entrance of probably the most highly effective folks in music, I might demand that labels and the trade profiting hundreds of thousands of {dollars} off of artists would provide a livable wage and well being care, particularly to growing artists,” she started, whereas the gang erupted into applause, together with fellow Greatest New Artist nominees Benson Boone and Sabrina Carpenter.
Roan was first signed to Atlantic Data in 2017 earlier than being dropped and later signed to Island Data in 2023.
Roan shared that as a result of she was a minor when she was signed, and since the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, she did not have sufficient job expertise to search out work and medical health insurance.
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“It was so devastating to really feel so dedicated to my artwork, however to really feel so betrayed by the system and so dehumanized to not have medical health insurance. And if my label would have prioritized artists’ well being, I might have had care by an organization I used to be giving all the things to,” the singer continued.
Roan requested that file labels deal with their artists as “valued workers” by offering livable wages and medical health insurance.
“Labels, we acquired you, however do you bought us?” she concluded.
Watch Chappell Roan’s full Grammys acceptance speech, beneath:
See trend photographs from the 2025 Grammys purple carpet (Feb. 2).
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