Why Did Stars Wear The White Rose to the Grammy Awards?

Stars including Lady Gaga, Halsey, Camila Cabello, Kesha and Kelly Clarkson wore the white roses, although the styles worn varied from Lady Gaga who wore hers pinned to her Armani Privé gown, Clarkson carried hers and Janelle Monae found an enamel pin in the motif, the question is: what do these white roses symbolize?

Stars wearing white Roses

Given that 2017 was a year that saw Taylor Swift win a lawsuit against a DJ who she claimed groped her, Kesha’s ongoing harassment lawsuit against Dr. Luke, and further abuse allegations against R. Kelly surface, white roses were a solidarity show towards a movement against sexual harassment and assault.

Miley with a White Rose

It was gathered that a letter was earlier sent by a group called Voices in Entertainment — formed by Meg Harkins, SVP of Marketing at Roc Nation and Karen Rait, Rhythmic Promotion, Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records and including 15 women in the industry encouraging their colleagues to participate in the awareness campaign of a movemenet called "Times up"; a campaign started by more than 300 powerful figures in entertainment that works to combat sexual assault and harassment in the entertainment industry. The movement has started a legal defense fund to provide assistance to women in other industries). The movement was also fully Addressed during Kesha's performance of “Praying”.

Performing "prayer"

Some stars spoke on why they wore the white rose, including Rita Ora who said “I thought that it was just a very graceful way of showing support to, I guess, everything that’s going on in Hollywood and I really do believe that the more visibility it gets, the more I think we can help, so that’s why I wanted to do it.”