Adele made it clear that she’s team Kesha at the Brit Awards on Wednesday night.
The singer, 27, accepted the first award of the night for British Female Solo Artist, and used her speech to let it be known she’s standing behind her music industry peer.
“I’d like to take a quick second to thank my manager and my record label for embracing the fact that I’m a woman and being encouraged by it,” she said, holding her award.
Adele continued, sounding emotional: “And I would also want to take this moment to publicly support Kesha.”
Watch the speech here… Post continues after video.
Last week, a court ruled that Kesha will not be released from her contract with producer Dr Luke’s Kemosabe Records (a Sony company), despite her allegations of sexual assault at his hands.
Pictures of Kesha sobbing in court as she learned she must continue to work with her abuser were published extensively, and many big-name pop stars Tweeted their support for her.
Taylor Swift donated $250,000 to Kesha’s legal fund, while Demi Lovato, Lady Gaga, and Lorde all tweeted their frustration at the outcome of Kesha’s case.
Adele’s speech was by far the most public denunciation of the court’s decision, and it will be interesting to see what effect the public support of Kesha and ipso facto the condemnation of Sony by the world’s highest selling singer will have.
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Good on her. I'm glad to see people standing up for Kesha and letting her know she has support: When you've been through sexual abuse, when you've had to bring it up all over again, and again, hear disbelief and dismissal, and again find yourself accused of lying and manipulating, it makes a hell of a difference to know someone stands by your side.
To be heard, believed and acknowledged, helps your own process of dealing with it all. It's the psychological equivalent of receiving First Aid. And just like the situation where every sign and symptom indicates a heart attack, or a broken arm, you respond as if it is. You don't wait until it's absolutely confirmed beyond the slightest doubt. Four hours later. You do something useful right now. You take their word that it hurts, and you help them. Now.
The guy in this situation isn't the main focus. Showing support for Kesha isn't actually the same as loudly proclaiming his guilt. And yeah, it is possible to compartmentalise. We've probably all been similarly un-judge-ly- supportive when our friends who were a couple, broke up. Support for one doesn't equate automatically to a judgement about another. Because, we're not the jury in a court case, we're just people. Your personal thoughts of him won't exonerate or imprison him.
I think it's great that people are standing up for her, but the flipside of this is that this man could actually be innocent and it is still an "alleged" incident. He hasn't been convicted of anything. I think it is dangerous to assume at this stage
Not only has he not been convicted of anything, he has not even been charged with anything. Zip, zilch, nada.
It worries me that an allegation in certain circumstances is now enough in some peoples minds to immediately find guilt which is against every principle we have been working towards in our legal system.