#GrammysSoJewish
The Grammys last night seemed to be about two things, Broadway and social justice, so basically they were also about Judaism, at least Judaism in the way I’ve always understood it.
Kesha, perhaps most famous for a judge forcing her to remain under contract to the music manager she alleged to have raped, harassed and tormented her, brought down the house with her rendition of “Praying,” accompanied by a backdrop of female superstars–including Janelle Monae and Cindy Lauper–dressed in symbolic pansuits of suffragette white. (Not to digress, but that fact that so many women are suddenly wearing pants on the red carpet, after so many years of Lady Gaga-esque enforced pantlessness–in New York, in January–seems like a statement in and of itself; Gaga herself, perhaps in a nod to the new pseudo-Victorian Age in which we unexpectedly have found ourselves, continued her recent habit of dressing like a John Singer Sargent painting and showed up in a high necked black lace bodice with a massive black silk train.)