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Consider This from NPR

Are we entering a #MeToo reckoning for the music industry?

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

When Sean "Diddy" Combs sang about being a bad boy in his 2001 hit, the lyrics were a mission statement and a boast. But today, the lyrics might sound more like a warning, as dozens of allegations of sexual abuse, sex trafficking, racketeering and rape are piling up against the music mogul.

The #MeToo movement quickly gained prominence in the film and media worlds in 2017. Why has it taken the music industry so long to follow suit?

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0:00.0

When Sean Diddy Combs said those words in the 2001 hit, they were a mission statement, a boast.

0:19.2

But today, those lyrics might sound more like a warning.

0:23.6

The disturbing new video appears to support some of the accusations of abuse against music

0:27.8

mogul Sean Did he Collins.

0:29.0

American music mogul Sean Did he Coombs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering.

0:34.7

And another woman has come forward with heinous allegations of rape and sexual assault.

0:40.3

And she said that there are dozens of allegations dating as far back as the 90s.

0:46.0

Combs, long one of the most powerful forces in popular music, has now become associated

0:52.1

with names like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.

0:55.2

Successful men accused of using their power to abuse others. Thyla Graves, one of Combs' accusers, spoke about that abuse this week.

1:05.0

It goes beyond just physical harm caused by and during the assault.

1:11.0

It's a pain that reaches into your very core of who you are and leaving emotional

1:18.2

scars that may never fool you hear. Many people are wondering what took so long. Consider this, the Me Too movement, which forced a reckoning in Hollywood and the media hasn't yet had the same impact in the music industry.

1:34.8

Could the charges against Sean Combs be the beginning?

1:38.8

From NPR, I'm Elsa Chang.

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