Alicia Keys "i was MeToo'd#" by Terry Richardson :

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

She had hair on that cat

 

[jackson35]

The beautiful singer says she felt “manipulated” and “objectified” by Terry, who made her open her shirt and pull down the top of her jeans.

Alicia made the stunning allegations in her new book, “More Myself,” when the photographer convinced the teen singer's team that he needed to photograph her alone. Terry then allegedly told her, “Open up your shirt a little” and “Pull the top of your jeans down a bit in the front.”

“My spirit is screaming that something is wrong, that this feels sleazy. But my protests, lodged in the back of my throat, can’t make their way out,” Keys writes. “I swallow my misgivings, tuck my thumb between the denim and my skin, and obey.

According to Alicia, she went home and cried after the shoot.

“This isn’t about me showing some skin, which I’ll do on my own terms, for my own purposes, in the coming years,” she writes. “It’s about feeling manipulated. It’s about being objectified.”

She said her manager at the time was appalled when he saw the magazine cover a few months later and Keys says she didn’t recognize the woman in the photo and was “embarrassed” and “ashamed” of it.

“I swear that I’ll never again let someone rob me of my power,” Keys writes, adding, “It’s a promise I still work to keep.”

Spoiler: The Picture.

should have fired your manager. no real rep will allow a female client to be alone with a photographer

 

[Patrick Kane]

I almost feel like a deviant for noticing that too

Glad it wasn’t just me

I zoomed in a couple times to confirm

 

[director_of_bands]

yes yes it's black men fault that alicia exposed her breast and pubes with HER hands and yes yes us black men must support alicia because she was thirsty for fame calling all black men please join me in rallying behind this woman on fire Im setting up a gofundme now

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Curious on Rihana’s experience
Dudes been a known weirdo..
Especially on Supreme shoots..
I forget the name of a sis that felt uncomfortable about him..
This was before metoo when she said it..
Also never look at his table book
And his blog from 06-16
Demonic shyt

 

[Scottie Drippin]

I don’t understand why her team agreed to her being alone for the photo shoot. Protecting her and her brand is what they’re paid to do.

A lot of ya'll are seriously underestimating the power this dude had. He was THE photographer. Probably the most singular powerful and influential fashion magazine/fashion photographer in the world. He was doing an up and coming artist a favor if he agreed to shoot them. He controlled his set and whatever he said, goes.

This dude was doing the full campaigns for basically every fashion brand you ever heard of, as well as the magazines.

 

[Code]

so saying no and leaving wasn't an option?

nikkas supposed to feel bad for this lack of basic logic?

You dont get it bro

If she says no she doesn't get that magazine cover =(

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Young girls new to the game are food for dudes with power. Wouldn't be surprised if there is more she isn't telling

 

[Diondon]

Hollywood is a cesspool. I don't know if #MeToo is gonna clean it up
but good luck

 

[King Poetic]

so saying no and leaving wasn't an option?

nikkas supposed to feel bad for this lack of basic logic?

exactly, sounding like those broads who said R Kelly kidnap them, but for some reason they left and came back

FOH

 

[daemonova]

You dont get it bro

If she says no she doesn't get that magazine cover =(

Okay...

 

[killacal]

nikkas siding with a known deviant

Which one

 

[colicolicoli]

girls are scared of saying no in certain situations. it could have been seen as "taking advantage" she wasnt comfortable.

side note i think she has aged way more gracefully than her other RnB counterparts of the 2000s.

A lot of men won’t understand this until they have daughters.

 

[FeverPitch2]

I remember this cover
I have no doubt that she didnt want to take that picture
But like the brehs said above, she's on a major label with Clive Davis behind her, one of the most powerful mfs in the industry
There were mad label reps and her mgmt at that shoot
For a cover shot, that shyt had to go through several levels of approval.
That's the shot they wanted.
So I'm not buying this bullshyt story about her being too paralyzed with fear to say no
She wasnt too paralyzed to pull them titties out and pull them draws down

I'm sure she was embarrassed by that picture but just say that.
Dont use Me Too as the reason why you caved in and did it.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Photographer made her show more skin constitutes to being metoo’d?

He didn't MAKE her do anything...

He didn't threaten her, all he did was ASK her to do it and she willingly complied...

She didn't even object as she put it "my protests, lodged in the back of my throat, can’t make their way out" and her manager wasn't ok with this shyt either...

Sounds like she could of easily said no, called her manager and moved on with her life...

But its 2020 where women apparently don't take any responsibility for the poor choices they made in their past...#MeToo