Alicia Keys Says Music Industry Is Still a Boys’ Club, And Women Are Paying the Price
*Alicia Keys has opened up about ownership, opportunity, and why the numbers behind the music industry tell a troubling story about how women are treated in professional spaces most fans never see. The 17-time Grammy winner pointed to production and engineering as areas where women face the steepest climb. “The music world becomes a good […] The post Alicia Keys Says Music Industry Is Still a Boys’ Club, And Women Are Paying the Price appeared first on EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More.
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*Alicia Keys has opened up about ownership, opportunity, and why the numbers behind the music industry tell a troubling story about how women are treated in professional spaces most fans never see.
The 17-time Grammy winner pointed to production and engineering as areas where women face the steepest climb. “The music world becomes a good old boy network and all the incredible women working as engineers and producers are not given an open door,” she said in a new interview with The Times London. That imbalance, she noted, has held women to just 2% representation across the broader music business.
Rather than channel that frustration into anger alone, Keys said she has chosen action. “Women make up 2 per cent of the entire business. I’m a producer and here we are, doing a bunch of work, killing it, so it’s shocking that the number is so small. Rather than just being pissed off about that, it was time to create opportunities.”
When the conversation turned to her catalog, Keys pushed back on any notion that her empowerment-driven songs were the product of a deliberate agenda. The truth, she said, was far more personal.
“I didn’t aim to come up with feminist message songs, and most of them were written because I wasn’t feeling that strong so I had to give myself a pep talk to keep going, but it is a thread through my work,” she explained.
Keys was equally direct when addressing the industry’s habit of leaving artists financially vulnerable. Executives and lawyers, she said, tend to prioritize their cut over an artist’s sustainability.
“No one tells you these things,” she said. “You deal with all these executives and lawyers who love to take their percentages and overcharge you, but they never say, ‘How can we ensure you’re here to stay?'”
Her advice to emerging artists was clear — ownership is everything. Keys said she would tell anyone starting out “to think about how to become the owners of their own creations.”
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