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She Is The Music (SITM) will honor Gracie Abrams and her all-female team at its inaugural Women Sharing the Spotlight celebration. The Women’s History Month event is being held on March 27 at The Peppermint Club in Los Angeles. In keeping with its ongoing advocacy for more inclusion, She Is The Music will also honor 50 other impactful women from various sectors of the music industry. And in further support of the organization’s mission, each of the 50 women will share their spotlight with another woman in the business.
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“Being surrounded by such an incredible team of women has changed the way I see everything,” said Abrams of her team in a statement. “They’re not only insanely talented in their individual capacities, but also intentional about supporting each other. I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn from each of them. I’m deeply honored to be recognized by She Is The Music, an organization that has done so much to acknowledge and uplift women in this industry. I hope our team is a small example of what’s possible when women support each other and build together.”
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Global star and She Is The Music co-founder Alicia Keys stated, “Gracie Abrams and her incredible team are living proof of what happens when women uplift each other — when we step into our power, we change the game. In an industry where female-led teams are still the exception, their success is a reminder that we belong in every room, at every table, leading every conversation. She Is The Music is about breaking barriers, opening doors and making sure the next generation of women in music don’t just have a seat at the table —they build the table.”
As part of the Women Sharing the Spotlight celebration, each honoree will receive one of Barbie’s newly unveiled Career of the Year: Women In Music dolls, a musical artist and tour manager duo created to illuminate women in the music industry.
Universal Music Publishing Group Chairman/CEO and She Is The Music co-founder Jody Gerson also noted, “Women supporting women is at the very core of She Is The Music’s mission. Creating a sisterhood of accomplished women and the next generations of working women across all facets of the music industry is our collective path forward to success. We are delighted to host our inaugural Women Sharing the Spotlight and to celebrate so many wonderful women in our business. We are also making a powerful statement by honoring Gracie Abrams and her team for embodying the spirit of sisterhood. This recognition is not only well deserved but also a testament to the fact that women in our industry can reach the highest levels of success on their own terms — especially when they uplift and support one another in meaningful ways.”
The evening will also spotlight key takeaways from the newly released “Inclusion in the Music Business” report, conducted by USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative in partnership with Believe and TuneCore. Chief among the findings: 84.2% of the most senior executives at major music companies are white men; only 13.2% of CEO/president roles are held by women and only 5.3% of top executives are women of color —an unchanged statistic since 2021. The full report can be viewed HERE.
Both TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative founder Dr. Stacy L. Smith will present the aforementioned and other findings at Women Sharing the Spotlight. “In recent years, our work has shown that women and people of color are increasing their presence on the popular charts as artists,” commented Smith in the press announcement. “But this progress is not matched by the executive ranks that are responsible for the business of music. It’s clear that there are still real discrepancies in who gets to lead.”
Added Gleeson, “We can’t afford to sit back and wait for this issue to fix itself. Artists are pushing boundaries and redefining music every day. It’s time for the executive ranks to reflect that same diversity and innovation.”
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Laura Jane Grace set out to make a point with a recent performance of a new song. It turns out, the song went right over the heads of the people she was hoping would hear it most.
On Friday (March 7), Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted a town hall as part of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour across the country in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and invited Grace to perform on stage. One of the songs she performed — her February released “Your God (God’s D–k)” — caused immediate outrage online over its profane lyrics and religious themes.
In the song, Grace makes a point that while religious conservatives have a problem using the proper pronouns for trans people, they seem to have no problem imposing gender on an omnipresent, non-physical deity. “Does your god have a big fat d–k? ‘Cause it feels like he’s f—ing me,” Grace sings on the track. “Are his b–ls filled with lightning?/ Do they dangle like heaven’s keys?”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Grace said that the purpose of the song was to open people’s eyes to the double standard of gender constructs today. “I’m not being profane to be profane, I’m not just saying ‘d–k’ to say ‘d–k.’ I’m asking a genuine question,” she said. “If you refer to your God as he and him, but you will not refer to a transgender person with the pronouns that are theirs … that’s just insane.”
Grace continued, adding that the outrage itself was representative of the larger problem around the right’s attack on trans people. “It’s such blatant hypocrisy. You can’t prove God exists with biology or chromosomes,” she said. “So if you’re gonna throw science continually in my face, let’s stick to that: Your god doesn’t exist.”
Sanders’ event was aimed at protesting president Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers’ proposed plans to cut federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid that low-income families rely on. “4,000 people came out to say: NO tax breaks for billionaires,” he wrote on Instagram following his Kenosha event. “NO cuts to Medicaid. NO oligarchy. NO authoritarianism. NO MORE billionaires buying elections.”
The White House has since stated that Trump “will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,” but has alleged that there is “waste and fraud in entitlement spending” without providing concrete evidence of where that waste and fraud exists in programs like Medicare or Medicaid.