Glastonbury Co-Founder Defends Headliner Kanye West, Calls Him "Music Legend"

The petition to stop Kanye West from his Glastonbury headline is a just short of 100,000 signatures. If you weren’t previously aware, its creators wants a rock band to headline instead, claiming that it is more aligned with Glastonbury’s tradition. The festival’s co-founder Emily Eavis disagrees, and shares that Glastonbury has had a history of headlining non-rock acts, and also gives praise to Ye for his artistry. Read her statement below:

“To say that our headliners should be ‘rock’ is, I think, a bit silly. Those acts never have been limited to rock, and they never will be. Stevie Wonder, the Prodigy, Curtis Mayfield, the Chemical Brothers, Jay Z, Gorillaz, Beyoncé and plenty of others prove that. [Kanye is] one of the world’s biggest superstars and a music legend, always interesting, never boring. He has agreed to play a festival where headliners get paid a fraction of their normal rate in support of Oxfam, Water Aid and Greenpeace as well as thousands of other worthy causes. We think that’s pretty great.”

At least somebody gets it.