Grammy Commentary: In this sexist industry, are singers just forced?

Comme Miley Cyrus, on l’a chanté, et même hululé toute l’année passée: “I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand…” Un hymne à la joie et à l’estime de soi, célébré en fanfare dans le monde entier. “I, “Flowers” ​​commençait à endre les gens heureux, et ça m’a rendue heureuse, merci à tous!” » S’emballait Miley on Instagram on Wednesday. Il faut dire qu’un after the release of chanson, former Disney princess à la voix rauque peut s’acheter bien plus qu’un bouquet: number 1 in the world, “Flowers” is the name in toutes les Grammy Award categories is an award , which is paid tribute to the mastodons of pop music and to you, who wrote the pantheon of music.

Fait inouï this year, Miley’s competitors in the most famous categories are Chanson de l’année, Enregistrement de l’année, Meilleur album et Performance de l’année – sont toutes… des concurrentes. They look to Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, SZA, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat, Janelle Monáe and the meme-rock band Boygenius, mentioned by Phoebe Bridgers. Seul un homme est parvenu à se glisser dans ces prestigieuses categories: singer and virtuoso pianist Jon Batiste, who best soul and jazz as a person. Pour le reste, ne cherchez pas: les femmes sont partout, et consurées de dominar la 66e cérémonie que se déroulera in Los Angeles le 4 February. At the Latin Grammy Awards, which was held in Seville last November, it was dedicated to female artists (Shakira, Natalia Lafourcade, Carole J…) in the categories plus smoking, a habit passed on to male artists.

Les femmes, mises de côté?

The last time I was present at the female body of Raz de Mare, in 1999, I lived for five years. Lauryn Hill avait quasi tout emporté sur son pass, et pour la première fois il n’y aucun man dans la categories Meilleur album de l’année. Celine Dion, winner of the “Best Chanson” award for the song “My Heart Will Go On,” called me a fan of the comments: “C’est merveilleux qu’il y ait tant de femmes qui s’engagent en Politique et In show business, we are not we can be honest! “During his Suivian years, female presence in some musical professions was at its rarest, when it was simply scattered. Le cru 2018, presque entièrement masculin (seul un prix dans les majeures avait été remis à une femme, Alessia Cara, best new artist), await difficult comments from Grammy patron Neil Portnow: “Les femmes n’ont qu ‘à se bouger. “(Une musicienne wind part ailleurs de déposer Plainte pour viol et soumission chimique à l’encontre de Portnow, pour des faits qui seraient déroulés il ya cinq ans.)

But what better way in a sexist industry than a late encore for a post-#MeToo conscience check? Prenoise Beyoncé, the artist with the most Grammy Awards coverage in history (32!), “most”, “or presque”, in “ore categories”. The latest, most popular album in the category “Best Album” with “Renaissance”, the final award won by Harry Styles, born with the sympathy of the son “Harry’s House”. In the inversion of cinema that fascinated women, music continues to be dominated by men, with a parfois-retrograde vision of the place of women.

Jan Wenner’s novel revealed. This is what is called the “temple garden.” Co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Australian co-founder and 2020 chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a class member of America’s musical pantheon, or 90% of the male jury (this is possible for the Grammys: 70% of voters). Another five years later, Wenner and his colleagues established standards for “good” music. In September, the 77-year-old industry influencer is publishing an anthology of his extensive interviews entitled Les Maîtres. As a journalist who demands that a woman be in a sleep apparatus, Wenner responded: “Aucune d’entre elles ne s’exprimait de manière suffisamment structurée intellectuellement. The same goes for black artists like Stevie Wonder or Otis Redding, who Wenner says “do not have the experience at the highest level” than Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger. The declarations of sexists and racists who value Wenner surprised him in the board of administration of the institution, or in the Siégeait. Et au public de comprendre pourquoi, encore in 2024, only 8% of artists will be inducted into the Women’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…

Des enjeux important things

The artists are pure bougies. Musical Revolution – Pioneer: What would rock and roll be without Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Tharpe? Gospel without Mahalia Jackson? What about rap without Sylvia Robinson, the producer of the genre’s premier version of The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”? It was definitely an essay de renverser on the table and in its place where these memes, the temple gardeners, could be judged. C’est le cas des Riot Grrrls, a female punk movement that debuted in 1990. Lassées d’etre moquées par leurs congénères punk qui neur cèdent ni la scène ni la fosse, cette poignée de jeunes femmes décident de créer leur propre espace artique. And a double leur démarche Culturelle d’un Manife Politique: “parce que nous, les filles, nous voulons de la musique et des livres et des fanzines qui NOUS parlent, dans lesquels NOUS nus sendons impliquées (…). IT SEEMES THAT our voulons que les filles voient/entendent les œuvres des autres filles pour pouvoir compare our skill and criticism/applaud chacune d’entre nous. IT SEEMES THAT nous ne voulons pas nous assimiler aux Normes (male) de ce qui doit être ou ne pas être. » Radicals, les Riot Grrrls, create their own canons in the fields of counterculture.

Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an opportunity that could change your life

Other artists are more pragmatic. Incey Courtney Love: “On the other hand, I will say that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a boomer thing, written by the Hole Foundation at the Tribune, published in The Guardian, March 2023. It is also important that it is this institution, Elle reste un rempart contre l’oubli auquel font face nombre de musiciennes, qu’elles courent derrière les rempartes ou qu’elles leur crachent dessus. Car c’est toujours le même chorus: ce sont ces ces establishments qui écrivent l’Histoire avec un grand H. Entrer au Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a un effect sur le prix de vos billets, sur le nombre de concerts que vous faites , on your albums resource. This is an opportunity that can change your life, it’s the difference between a fair and the premiere of a comedy party in the second zone at a regional casino or on the tete bill of a large festival. » Les enjeux de representation in politics and financiers.

185 albums have received awards since 1985, 32 performances of these songs by women.

And in France, alors? Our victories in music are in line with American trends: they give greater privileges to male talent at the expense of female artists. And so, since the first edition in 1985, 20% of the names were women. Au Tournant des Années 2000, c’était pire encore, seulement 16%. Another example: Song of the Year has been won by an artist 9 times out of 38, and four of those wins were awarded to a mixed duo (Celine Dion and Garou in 2002, Axel Red and Renaud in 2003, Vitaa and Slimane in 2020, Camille Lellouche and Grand Corps Malade in 2021). Idem for the best albums, long divided by musical genre: of the 185 albums awarded after 1985, 32 of them were signed des femmes.

Even after 2018, Victory of Music found a trick: to genre as many categories as possible. In fact, the Female Artist of the Year Award does not report that for a woman, all mobile phones of the female Révélation or album are the most popular among artists. Fallait-il and penser! Voilà qui gonfle les statistiques: this year, as I said, women present the presque la moitié des nominations. Quota policies to compensate for sexism behind the scenes? In any case, this is a great event that takes place on February 9, live in France 2, with Zakho de Sagazan, Clara Ise, Jain, Aya Nakamura or Véronique Sanson as an encore.