Ruby Blushing

@chappellroan full speech from the #grammys , demanding a livable wage and healthcare from record labels and the music industry. Amazing.

“ I told myself if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and healthcare, especially to developing artists. Because I got signed so young, I got signed as a minor, when I got dropped I had zero job experience under my belt. Like most people, I had a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and could not afford health insurance. It was so devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and so dehumanized to not have help. And if my label would have prioritized artists’ health I could have been provided care by a company I was giving everything to. So record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels we got you, but do you got us? Thank you.”

Pay Artists. Support Artists. Give us a Living Wage! Give us Healthcare! And Burn Down the Corrupt and Unregulated Streaming Industry!