In the last hours the name of Harry Styles It has become a trend on social networks and although the reason is related With his triumph in the last Grammy award, he does not leave the singer in a very good position because they point out that he belongs to the privileged sector of the show.
Styles became the top winner of the night by taking home two statuettes, one for Best Pop Solo Performance and the other, the most coveted, for Album of the Year; however, what caught the attention of the spectators was the speech that the British gave on stage and which has earned him strong criticism.
“On nights like this, it’s obviously very important for us to remember that there’s no such thing as ‘better’ in music,” Harry began, but What caused tremendous controversy was that, immediately after, the artist assured that things like this do not usually happen to people like him: “I am very, very grateful. This does not happen to people like me very often”he added.
These words were enough for several users lashed out at him and assured that this type of thing happens all the time to people like him, because although no one denies his effort and work, he enjoys certain privileges in society:
“Baby, your effort and your music are cool, but you’re literally white, young, good-looking, you wink at a straight and queer audience. Totally that kind of thing happens to people like you”, “Harry won’t be sorry Styles say in his speech ‘this doesn’t happen to people like me’, being a straight, white, upper-class man”, “I have mixed feelings with Harry Styles’ speech”, “I woke up thinking about what Harry said with ‘people like me’. Man? White? From a developed country? Anglophone? Pop singer?” male, white, straight and European. That was the last straw”, are just some of the comments that have rained on Twitter.
While others went much further and in addition to Styles, they criticized The Recording Academy, as they recalled that in its entire history only 11 African-American artists have managed to achieve the precious recognition that the British took: “Saying ‘this doesn’t happen to people like me very often’ when a black woman hasn’t won that award since 1999 is crazy lol” wrote Sam Sanders, a former NPR journalist.
Fans come to his defense
Although the criticism against exOne Direction has not stopped, some users have even asked to cancel it, the followers of the interpreter of “Golden” have come to his defense, explaining that his words would have been taken out of context and that what he was really referring to was his origin, because let’s remember that before being an international superstar, Harry was a baker.
Harry began his career in 2010 when he auditioned to participate in the reality show X Factor on English television, although he failed to win as a soloist, one of the show’s judges, Simon Cowell, called him to along with four other teenagers, they will form one of the most important boybands of recent times: One Direction.
According to the artist himself, he finished school at the age of 16 and then he dedicated himself to working in a bakery in his hometown due to lack of resources, something that his fans have highlighted.
So far neither the singer nor his team have spoken about it.
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