Pink Responds To Grammy President Saying Women Need To "Step Up"
Posted on Tue Jan 30th, 2018 10:00am PDT By X17 Staff
She couldn't have put it more perfectly.
Pink took to social media yesterday to respond to Grammys president Neil Portnow's recent comments about how women in music need to "step up" if they want more recognition, and the singer isn't going to let him get away with playing the blame game.
"Women in music don’t need to ‘step up’ — women have been stepping since the beginning of time. Stepping up, and also stepping aside women OWNED music this year. They’ve been KILLING IT. And every year before this. When we celebrate and honor that talent and accomplishments of women, and how much women STEP UP every year, against all odds, we show the next generation of women and girls and boys and men what it means to be equal, and what it looks like to be fair," she wrote on Twitter.
Portnow now probably really regrets his choice of words.
"I think it has to begin with women who have the creativity in their hearts and souls — who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, who want to be producers, who want to be part of the industry on the executive level — to step up,†Portnow told Variety, shortly after the award show, which saw only one female win in a major category.
“Because I think they would be welcome. I don’t have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you face, but I think it’s really a combination,†he continued. “Us as an industry making the welcome mat very obvious, creating mentorships, creating opportunities not only for women but all people who want to be creative and really paying it forward and creating that next generation of artists who feel like they can do anything, they can say anything," he added.
We wouldn't be at all surprised if the ladies boycott next year!