Tonight’s Grammys award show is a big one. It’s the first night the show is being held in New York City in 15 years. It’s the first time since 1992 that a white man wasn’t nominated for Best Album of the Year. And in the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp, it’s another opportunity for celebrities to get up on stage and continue the conversations surrounding sexual violence, pay inequity, and other barriers women face in the industry.
In solidarity with the #TimesUp movement, artists are wearing white roses on the red carpet. Meanwhile, one artist is also using her red carpet outfit to make a statement, though not for #TimesUp. You may remember Joy Villa’s “Make America Great Again” dress from last year. Well she’s back, and she’s making a weird declaration that she's, unsurprisingly, pro-life.
Villa strutted down the red carpet wearing a white dress with the painting of a fetus. Yep, a fetus sitting inside a rainbow uterus on it. Villa also carried a white handbag that says “Choose Life.” Check out the look below.
I mean... Villa has the right to free speech and self-expression as much as anyone—even if it distracts from a movement she personally could benefit from. Just a month ago, Villa came forward to accuse Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of sexual misconduct. Villa alleged that Lewandowski touched her inappropriately multiple times. On one instance he slapped the singer's ass. She neglected to come forward at the time of the harassment, because she didn’t want the publicity to take away from her support of Trump.
At the time, Villa’s name was added to a dismally long list of women and men coming forward to accuse powerful men of sexual misconduct. It seems that with this red carpet get up, though, she’s more focused protecting unborn lives.
Before she started getting political, Villa’s outfits were also not very good. In 2015 she wore an entire outfit made out of that orange, plastic construction fence material, and the year before that she wore some kind of black skeleton thing. I honestly can’t tell if she’s moving forward or backward, but this fetus dress is definitely taking statement pieces on the red carpet to a whole new level.
