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Sony: "Sabotaging an artist's career is good for the artist!"
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/29/keshas_horrifying_nightmare_and_the_adele_comparison_from_sony_that_goes_way_beyond_acceptable/Put short:
The singer Kesha is suing her producer Dr Luke in court with claims that he raped her.
She wants to continue making music, just not with him.
She wants to be released from her contract with Sony.
She wants this situation settled as soon as possible, before her career suffers permanent damage.
In a recent statement, the company claimed that being stonewalled by her label is actually a good thing for Kesha. The singer filed an injunction with the court to expedite the case, worried that time off might harm her career. But Sony insists that’s hardly the case: In court documents leaked by TMZ, Sony claimed that years away from the recording studio helped D’Angelo and Justin Timberlake mount impressive comebacks. The company argued that Kesha “could be the next Adele.”
The spin is so insidious that the sleight of hand all but escaped mention in the press—because who doesn’t love Adele right now? After the Grammy-winning success of “21,” which launched three No. 1 singles, the British singer waited four years to release another EP. That album, “25,” has broken every record in the book since bowing in November. Her third album sold an unbelievable 3 million copies in its first week—at a time when people don’t buy CDs anymore.
But the reason Adele took that lengthy hiatus was to have her first child (who was born in 2012) and build a new family with her husband. In an Instagram post published before the release of “25,” the singer wrote, “Sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened.” It absolutely was not to escape her alleged rapist, and to equate the two is appalling.
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