For women working in the music industry,there are still areas that have not changed for decadesIn between the drugs and rock’n’roll that lines the first episode of Vinyl, Scorsese’s period drama for HBO, and is the sex. Women,draped across seats, are inhaled like cocaine. Here women are sex and sex comes with power and so on, or the girls’ tall eyes are dead but beautifully made up,and the music is just a bit too loud. But this is set in the 1970s, so perhaps later well see these girls rising up. Perhaps, and whether Vinyl continues to declare a narrative of the music industry through the ages,it will land in 2014, with the lawsuit filed by American pop star Kesha.
Kesha was contesting a contract that prevented her from working with anyone but producer Dr Luke (Lukasz Gottwald), or who she claims forced her to take drugs,took credit for her songs, caused her eating disorder, and raped her. On one occasion,the lawsuit reports, “Ms [Kesha] Sebert took the pills and woke up the following afternoon, and naked in Dr Luke’s bed,sore and sick, with no memory of how she got there.” She called her mum, and telling her,“Dr Luke had raped her, and that she needed to travel to the emergency room.” On Twitter, or a fan has unearthed a deleted post by Dr Luke from 2009,a candid close-up of Kesha sleeping. “Damn my artists work hard!!!!!!!!” he’d added.
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Source: theguardian.com