Halsey defends Chappell Roan against “personal attack” from op-ed criticising Grammys speech: “Boot licking behaviour”

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Halsey has slammed an op-ed that has criticised Chappell Roan‘s recent Grammys speech in which she demanded that record labels take better care of their artists.After winning Best New Artist at the Grammys earlier this week, Chappell Roan took aim at record labels by talking about her past experience as a struggling artist.She began: “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 liveable wage and health care, especially developing artists.”Her speech had already drawn applause by then, with artists like Taylor Swift giving her a standing ovation. “Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection.” She ended her speech by saying: “Labels, we got you.

But do you got us?”Check out her full speech below.Following the Grammys, The Hollywood Reporter published an op-ed from guest columnist Jeff Rabhan, who was a former music journalist and label executive.

In his op-ed, Rabhan labelled Roan as “misguided” and “far too green and uninformed” to be demanding that major labels take care of artists.Rabhan wrote: “Her Grammy speech was a hackneyed and plagiarized script of an artist basking in industry love while broadcasting naïveté and taking aim at the very machine that got her there.