Grammys embrace/avoid #MeToo/Time's Up
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2018
4 minutes
For two full hours, it was as if 2017 never happened. The first half of the 60th Grammy awards was filled with the usual fare of booty-shaking performances, sleepy ballads and sleepier acceptance speeches.
And then singer Kesha stepped on stage to remind everyone that the past year had been anything but business as usual.
The pop singer turned social warrior was nearly destroyed, professionally and personally, when she leveled sexual assault accusations against her powerful producer in 2014. But when she performed her redemptive hit "Prayin'" during Sunday's live telecast from Madison Square Garden, it sent a clear
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