Everyone Is A Crooked Cop: Keke Palmer Demands #Metoo Movement For Music Industry

Everyone Is A Crooked Cop: Keke Palmer Demands #Metoo Movement For Music Industry

Keke Palmer has urged the music industry to focus on how it handles female entertainers and perhaps to implement a #MeToo-inspired policy.

Keke Palmer recently spoke with PEOPLE about her new album, Big Boss—her first work since her 2020 EP, Virgo Tendencies, Pt. 2—and the movie that goes along with it, which explores her life, career, and journey as a performer.

She also talks about her encounters with the industry’s pervasive sexism of women. The new mother went even farther, saying that even though the #MeToo movement has not yet made it to music, it should.

The movement, which Tarana Burke, a sexual assault survivor and activist, launched in 2006, aims to increase public awareness of abuse, harassment, and rape culture. After celebrities like Alyssa Milano talked about their experiences in the business, it went viral in 2017.

While “bad shit happens in all industries,” it is particularly common in the entertainment industry, according to Keke Palmer.

We all know that horrible things occur in both of them, but the Nope actor observed that “it’s almost like the acting world represents a union and the music industry represents non-union.”

It’s occurring in the world of actors, but it will finally come to a damn halt. Someone is going to be exposed. There will be some sort of event. We’re going to reach some sort of understanding eventually.

“With music, it seems like everyone is getting paid, and everyone is a corrupt cop,” Palmer continued. So it appears that nothing will ever fully materialize.

Over the years, Palmer claimed she had developed the ability to advocate for herself, but the “sad thing is that you learn these things from being in bad situations.” Her assessment is that “it almost feels like it’s a coming-of-age story for a woman.”

Being a woman is like, “Damn, trusting someone is the biggest mistake you can do. Damn, I really shouldn’t have put anyone in my faith. She spoke up. I wish we could do more, but it doesn’t seem realistic to even hope that people will respect our boundaries.

Keke Palmer said that after all the failures, she had thought about leaving the business, but she would “somehow find herself back again.”

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