More About Kesha, Less about other Pop Artists
Kesha refuses to continue creating music with producer Dr. Luke during an ongoing case against him. With Kesha’s career on the line, Taylor Swift was kind enough to donate $250,000 dollars to her.
The Rolling Stone article covering Taylor Swift’s donation focused mainly on her and other celebrities voicing their support but took away the focus from Kesha.
To add even more attention away from her, Demi Lovato went to Twitter and tweeted how proud she was of her. She then wrote about women empowerment and threw a bit of shade at Taylor Swift with donating that large amount of money.
T-Swift fans ended up firing back at Demi and she commented on one of the Taylor Swift fanpages on Instagram.
Demi wrote, “At least I’m talking about it. Not everyone has 250K to just give to people…There’s no ‘rivalry’ I just give more fucks than other people and would rather start a dialogue ABOUT WOMEN COMING FORWARD ABOUT BEING RAPED than throw money at one person.”
So far Taylor Swift hasn’t commented on anything but maybe she’s busy writing a single about it.
This coverage could have been handled differently by still attributing the artist without taking the focus away from Kesha. This made it seem as if it was a publicity stunt to have people love Taylor.
The disappointing part of this was that there have been cases similar to Kesha’s happening all the time. But you don’t read about people donating money to help out those women in need because most of the time it doesn’t happen. But since it was a celebrity, this made headlines. It created conversation that in turn keeps people informed about general situations like this.
At the same time, it created competition with other artists or celebrities on who could be the most vocal or the most generous. I’m not saying that it was wrong for artists to show their support in different respects. But the focus shouldn’t be about them.
Sometimes the story sways away once another artist becomes involved. It was maybe where the competition came in and people searched for the next artist or celebrity to respond. It then lost the impact of what the actual story was about.
Since this had always been an ongoing trend of other celebrities supporting others, there was only mention of female artists outspokenly supporting Kesha. So far there hasn’t been any male artists that stated on any social platform to what is going on.
On the Noisey website, Emma Garland, the writer of this article, said that male artists have just as much impact as the women do.
If the male artists did speak out it would create a whole different perspective towards the music industry as a whole because it wouldn’t be a gender issue.
But as I said, this case wasn’t supposed to be a competition to see who can be recognized as the best supporter, this wasn’t even about men not speaking out (even though it would be great) and it wasn’t about celebrities backlashing at other celebrities for monetary assistance.
It’s about how women are essentially able to lose their careers for something that the court doesn’t believe happened or because there wasn’t enough evidence. This has been about creating conversations not competitions.
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