Halsey slams music executive who criticised Chappell Roan's Grammy Awards speech
On Wednesday, a guest column by Jeff Rabhan titled "Chappell Groan: The Misguided Rhetoric of an Instant Industry Insider" was published in The Hollywood Reporter.
In the article, Rabhan claimed Roan's call for record label bosses to offer "liveable" wages and healthcare for performers during her acceptance speech for Best New Artist at the prizegiving on Sunday to be "noble but also wildly misinformed".
The music executive, who previously worked at Atlantic and Elektra Records, also argued Roan is "far too green and too uninformed to be the agent of change she aspires to be".
However, Halsey took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday to post a lengthy message in which she defended Chappell's speech.
"Jeff Rabhan's ranting, seething tantrum is loaded with assumptions and accusations that generalize the experience of every artist to that of the most successful," the 30-year-old, who uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, began. "Our industry is comprised of thousands of voices, the elite at the very top of the class are not the example of a monolithic experience for all artists."
Halsey went on to claim that music label bosses should be supporting artists anyway they can.
"It's a game of investment but the investment is toward producing the materials, the person *the ORGANIC MATERIAL* that is producing that product needs access to thinks like health care. Shocking I know," they continued. "If you want to profit off someone else's art; that artist should have the basic living means to feel safe enough to create that art."
Elsewhere in the rant, Halsey rejected Rabhan's notion that the Pink Pony Club singer is a "instant industry insider" but someone who has been working for over a decade to get to her position.
"To compare the payoff of her actions to those of an industry titan with the power and financial leverage like Taylor Swift, when Chappell hasn't even spun the block enough times to see the residuals of her long earned but sudden success, is irresponsible for someone with your experience in the industry. Shame on you. Boot licking behavior," the Without Me hitmaker added.
Neither Chappell nor Rabhan has publicly responded to Halsey's message as yet.
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