2018 is the year of the woman, or so mainstream media would have you think.
Yes, women have been gaining more power over themselves and their harassers, but we still have a long way to go for equality in the media industry. Let’s use Lorde as the example. Lorde was nominated alongside Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, and Jay-Z for Album Of The Year at this year’s Grammy’s. She was also the only one out of the nominated not asked to perform. You’d think they would ask her to perform solo, seeing that Album Of The Year is one of the biggest awards you can get, and since she’s a strong female artist. Actually, as reported by Variety, Lorde was asked to perform a cover of Tom Petty’s song ‘American Girl’ but she declined that offer. It seems like a huge slap in the face, along the lines of, “Oh hey, congrats on being nominated. However, we don’t want you to perform something off of your Grammy nominated album.”
For this year to be so huge for the “Time’s Up!” movement and women empowerment, the Grammy’s directors sure had a funny way of showing it. Lorde is only the tip of the iceberg. An excerpt from The New York Times reads: “Of the 899 people nominated in the last six Grammy Awards, the report found, only 9 percent were women.” Lorde even took to Twitter to voice in a classy way how she felt.
It isn’t just the Grammys who have been screwing over female artists. Not one female director was nominated at the Golden Globes for Director Of The Year, and only just now was a female director nominated for an Oscar. In a time calling for equality, I’m sure not seeing the movement.