Chappell Roan Gave the Speech of the Night at the 2025 Grammys
Chappell Roan Gave the Speech of the Night at the 2025 Grammys
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.”
Thanks for the description. I don't follow award ceremonies so just going by the title it is really unclear why is this supposed to be uplifting, and comes off as just typical celebrity news. The description tells me neatly, and lets me click on the article if I want further elaboration.
She better be ready for a fight because the music industry execs are salivating at the potential for firing all their artists and replacing them with AI
Nevermind that as an openly queer person, she's probably on some ICE list already.
Two speeches of the night because earlier she also stood up for trans women too 💖
https://bsky.app/profile/readandmake0ut.swifties.social/post/3lha6oq35jc2j
I honestly haven't even listened to any of her music (and maybe I should give it a try at least) but so far I've liked almost everything I've seen and heard about her online. The mainstream music industry needs more punks and rebels to speak out and cause a ruckus. If anything, just to kill the manufactured, conformist slop it's all become.
(and maybe I should give it a try at least)
It's often pretty explicit, but legitimately quite good. It's got an old school vibe with a modern bent.
Just listened to "Good Luck, Babe!" and "Hot to Go!". Definitely poppier than my usual tastes, which I was expecting. But old school, as you say, and it gives me feelings of nostalgia. Her voice is awesome too.
I'm definitely sometimes in the mood for this kind of jam, so this might actually become a little guilty pleasure of mine. I think it would fit well with all the '90s (and some '80s) shit on my playlist anyway.
Pink Luigi club, I'm going to keep dancing...
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.
There’s a serious issue in FULLY equating wealth with being evil.
Plenty of reasons to hate this fact, but: In our current society, wealth is power. If you demonize anyone with even slightly above average wealth, you are starving your causes of ANY possible power.
I still recognize there is a correlation. Evil, greedy people seek more wealth. But never point to the wealth itself as the evil. Drive the reason, the reprehensible acts and the lack of taxes paid, themselves. Some wealthy people even agree they should pay more taxes.
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 99% believe in “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” with the tiiiiiny asterisk for those who literally create such a cultural artistic phenomenon that they sell through to billionaire status on it alone. Unfortunately, two of the most prominent examples, Notch (Minecraft) and JK Rowling (Harry Potter, obvs) turned out to be total pieces of shit anyway.
Oh well.