Don’t Tell Pink to “Step Up”
Don’t tell women to step up when they’ve been doing so since the beginning of time. That was P!nk’s response to Recording Academy president Neil Portnow’s call for women to “step up” after men won big at Sunday’s 2018 Grammy Awards.
“Stay” crooner Alessia Cara was the only woman to win a major award at the annual awards show, while male artists like Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars collected multiple trophies. Nonetheless, Portnow defended the male-dominated accolades, saying that female musicians who have “creativity in their hearts and souls” need to “step up.”
In her passionate tweet on Monday, Pink noted that ladies have been doing that for years.
“Women in music don’t need to ‘step up’ – women have been stepping since the beginning of time,” the 38-year-old singer wrote. “Stepping up, and also stepping aside. Women owned music this year. They’ve been killing it. And every year before this.”