A jury convicted R. Kelly; will his music face consequences?
ABC News
A criminal conviction may be able to do to R. Kelly’s music what years of allegations couldn’t
NEW YORK -- Will a criminal conviction do to R. Kelly's music what years of ugly allegations couldn't?
It's unlikely that Monday's moment of justice — when a federal jury in New York found the 54-year-old R&B superstar guilty of all nine counts in a sex trafficking trial — will mean much for his fans, given all the awful things they had learned already, some observers say.
“The lines have already been drawn," said Jem Aswad, deputy music editor for the trade publication Variety, who has been covering R. Kelly for 20 years. "The people that are going to listen to R. Kelly’s music are still listening to it. I don’t think a guilty verdict is going to change their minds.”
Still, advocates hope the criminal conviction brings a moral reckoning.
