Noah Kahan and Charli XCX back Chappell Roan and match her $25k donation to struggling artists after op-ed controversy

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Noah Kahan and Charli XCX have backed Chappell Roan and matched her $25k donation to struggling artists after an op-ed controversy.Last Sunday (February 2), the former NME Cover star won her first Grammy at this year’s ceremony.

While collecting the award for Best New Artist, she called out the music industry and “demanded that labels in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a liveable wage and health care, especially developing artists.”Jeffrey Rabhan – a longtime music executive and former Chair of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute – responded to her words in The Hollywood Reporter, calling her Grammys speech “misguided” and “uninformed” in a guest column.Shortly afterwards, Halsey defended Roan against the “personal attack” in the op-ed, taking to her Instagram stories to write that it was “boot licking behaviour”.

The ‘Good Luck, Babe’ singer also hit out at Rabhan herself, posting a screenshot of his article in which he claimed the Missouri pop star was “no longer a struggling artist” and should “do something about” the wealth disparity “rather than talk about it”.“[Rabhan], wanna match me $25k to donate to struggling, dropped artists?” Roan asked, “My publicity is @biz3publicity.

Let’s talk.” As of the time of writing, Jeffrey Rabhan has not replied to Roan.Now, ‘Stick Season‘ hitmaker Kahan has followed suit.