Last night, at the 2024 Grammys Phoebe Bridgers called out previous Recording Academy chairman and CEO Neil Portnow, informing him to “rot in piss” over his notorious 2018 remarks about females in music, in addition to the sexual attack accusations he is presently dealing with. Bridgers and her Boygenius bandmates, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacuswere backstage in the Grammys press space taking concerns about their 3 triumphes at the awards reveal, when a Wanderer press reporter asked the trio about ladies’s roll in the future of rock music.
“I have something to state about ladies,” Bridgers reacted. “The ex-president of the Recording Academy, Neil Portnow, stated that if ladies wish to be chosen and win Grammys that they must ‘step up.’ He’s likewise being implicated of sexual violence. To him I ‘d like to state: ‘I understand you’re not dead yet, however when you are, rot in piss.'”
Baker included, “That’s quite rock ‘n’ roll.”
Bridgers described a 2018 remark that Portnow made to Range following the 61st Annual Grammy Awards when all however among the event’s telecasted awards went to males. “It needs to start with … females who have the imagination in their body and souls, who wish to be artists, who wish to be engineers, manufacturers, and wish to belong to the market on the executive level,” Portnow stated, including that females”[need] to step up” due to the fact that he believed “they would be welcome.”
Portnow’s remarks were met a rise of reaction from the music market– consisting of a Vanessa Carlton-led petition requiring him to step down from his post– and, eventually, caused his resignation as the head of the Recording Academy. In the occurring years, Portnow has actually been implicated of rape and demanded sexual attackPortnow has actually rejected the claims outright.
Ahead of the Grammys event, Bridgers described Portnow in an interview with The Associated Pressstating that “it was just a number of years earlier now that (curse) who is now being implicated of sexual violence stated ladies require to step it up if they wish to be chosen.”
Boygenius took home 3 Grammy awards last night, winning Finest Alternative Music Album for their launching LP, The Recordin addition to Finest Rock Song and Finest Rock Performance for”Not Strong Enough” In addition, Bridgers won Finest Pop Duo/Group Performance for her SZA cooperation “Ghost in the Machine.”