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Fever 333 on “performative” activism and Grammys “straight-up not acknowledging The Weeknd”
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nme.comFever 333‘s Jason Aalon Butler has said music industry efforts towards racial equality have been “performative”, noting that vital POC artists such as The Weeknd are being ignored.Butler said in an In Conversation video interview with NME that the influx of awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement including Blackout Tuesday last summer has not been sustained.
He cited The Weeknd’s Grammys snub as a particular example of backwards thinking.When he was asked if there’s been any change in the rock and metal industry since Blackout Tuesday, Butler said: “No, it’s been performative.
I haven’t seen any change.“People talk so loudly about wanting to change, how they saw the wrong that they were perpetuating for fucking decades.
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