Phoebe Bridgers did not dice words when speaking with press reporters backstage at the Grammys, calling out the previous head of the Recording Academy after he was just recently implicated of rape.
Bridgers, that showed up in the Grammys press space together with her boygenius band participants Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus following their win for finest rock efficiency, was inquired about the future of rock and females succeeding in the category.
“I have something to say about women,” Bridgers reacted.“The ex-president of the Recording Academy, Neil Portnow, said that if women want to be nominated and win Grammys that they should step up. He’s also being accused of sexual violence. And to him I’d like to say I know you’re not dead yet, but when you are, rot in piss.”
In 2018, when females won just 17 of the 86 honors at that year’s program– and just 2 honors throughout the real-time program– Portnow informed press reporters, “I think it has to begin with women who have the creativity in their hearts and their souls who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, who want to be producers, who want to be part of the industry on an executive level, to step up.”
Portnow finished his period as head of the Grammys and the Recording Academy when his agreement ran out in 2019, and in November, he was taken legal action against by a participant of the Recording Academy that declared he drugged and raped her in a New york city resort in 2018.
The claim charges Portnow of sexual offense, which the Recording Academy “aided and abetted” to “protect their reputations and silence Plaintiff and other women in the music industry.” An agent for Portnow rejected the accusations.
This year’s Grammys was a really various yield for females than the 2018 event, as 4 various ladies– Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus and Victoria Monét– won the leading 4 Grammys, matching the 2021 Grammys when Swift, Eilish, H.E.R. and Megan Thee Stallion won the large 4 honors.
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