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Chappell Roan Gave the Speech of the Night at the 2025 Grammys

www.vogue.com 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.”

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1w ago

Chappell Roan Gave the Speech of the Night at the 2025 Grammys

www.vogue.com /article/chappell-roan-gave-the-speech-of-the-night-at-the-2025-grammys

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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.
  
  Sending her back to the Ozarks, while cruel, is not a deportation action.

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 love her 😭

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 pony club gets stuck in my head all the time, especially since I first heard it as an AI cover in Plankton's voice.
  AI: https://youtu.be/PIE7UG12R-E
  Real: https://youtu.be/GR3Liudev18
  
  I watched the real video first and got all into it.
  Then I watched the AI video and now my brain's wondering what the hell just happened.

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.

Fuck majors, fuck every artist signed under them and fuck you for upvoting this

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.
- 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.
- She wasn't preaching at you, unless you're a music executive
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  If after earning millions you are still part of the industry you are scum in for profit simple as that.
  
  No, there is not.
- She promised to do this when she was unemployed with no career prospects during the pandemic. These are the issues and sentiments of a poor person, they may be spoken through her now very successful mouth, but the meaning is still rooted in that economic anxiety.
- 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.

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