Chappell Roan was one of the expected winners at the last ceremony of the Grammy Awards held last Sunday. Roan, clearly the revelation artist of 2024, won “Best New Artist.” In addition, his speech was one of the most applauded at night because and another behind when they decide to get rid of them.
Roan, exposing his particular case, recalled that he signed with a record -atlantic records – when he was a minor and that, when he fired it, he found himself on the street without work experience or money to pay for a basic medical insurance. Roan explained that he had felt “betrayed” by a company to which he had “given everything.”
Not everyone seemed correctly. Chappell Roan’s message. The Hollywood Reporter has published an opinion column signed by Jeff Rabhan, executive of the music industry, who strongly criticizes Roan’s words. According to Rabhan, Roan Erra, demanding that the seals remunerate their artists as if they were “employees with fixed salary” because the economic model of a record is “fundamentally different” from other companies. Rabhan emphasizes that “records are businesses, not NGOs, and that the agreement is simple: they put the money, run the risk and, in return, they stay with part of the benefits.” Rabhan adds that “no one forces artists to sign with record records” and that “if they don’t like terms, they can remain independent.”
The author points out that record stamps have no “moral or ethical obligation to allocate additional funds” for artists “beyond advances and royalties.”
Rabhan, who has worked with artists such as Kelly Clarkson or Michelle Branch, believes that Roan is “very green” and “too uninformed” to demand structural changes in the music industry, and believe that Ran seeks to give the image of being an “outsider attacking to the system from within »when it is not. For Rabhan, Ran only “becomes naive” while pointsing to the “machine” that “has taken it where it is.”
Rabhan not only fiercely criticizes Roan, but proposes a solution and suggests the author of ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ that she opens an association to raise funds aimed at supporting emerging artists, and that a “2 or 3 percent of the advance” that its record investment invests in it, donates it to that foundation.
Roan has answered Rabhan challenging him with her “$ 25,000 to emerging artists thrown down the stamps.”
Halsey’s response
Jeff Rabhan’s column has encountered Halsey’s response, which has answered the Executive with a letter published in its stories. For Halsey, Rabhan puts all artists in the same bag and assumes that everyone lives the same experiences in the industry. For Halsey, Rabhan’s text is a “tantrum full of accusations and generalities” and the author should “be ashamed” to have published it, especially given his experience in the industry.
Halsey adds: «Advances no longer occur as before, and serve for the artist to survive, since his commitment to art prevents him from working normal employment. The record of the record company is intended for the production of the material, and the organic material – the person – that produces the product needs access to things such as health care. Shocking, I know.
“If the seals want to benefit from the art produced by the artist, the artist should have the basic means to live and feel safe to create that art,” adds the author of ‘The Great Impersonator’.
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