Chappell Roan won best new artist at the Grammys and used her speech to hold record labels accountable.

After thanking her friends, family and team, the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer said, “I told myself that if I ever won a Grammy and got to stand up here before the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and health care, especially developing artists.”

As the Los Angeles audience broke into cheers and applause, Roan added, “I got signed so young, I got signed as a minor. When I got dropped, I had zero job experience under my belt, and like most people, I had … quite a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and [could not] afford insurance.”

“It was devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and dehumanized,” Roan continued. “If my label had prioritized it, I could have been provided care for a company I was giving everything to. Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection.”

She finished her victory speech by asking, “Labels, we got you, but do you got us?”

Roan, who is 26, started her career as a teenager, uploading songs to YouTube under the name Kayleigh Rose. She was signed by Atlantic Records in 2015, but the label dropped her in 2020. In 2023, Roan signed with Dan Nigro’s independent imprint Amusement Records, and she released her debut album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” in partnership with Island Records.

Variety has reached out to the major record labels for comment.

Earlier in the night, Roan performed her song “Pink Pony Club” from atop a giant pink horse. Flanked by an army of rodeo clowns, Roan (in bedazzled cowboy boots and plenty of fringe) belted out the ode to L.A. gay clubs as the audience sang along.