Music: The Grammy's debacle

[GlassesJacketShirt]

25 had two hits on the radio that I can recall, Hello and Send My Love.

Neither of them were in the discussion for best song on the album, but I also can't say the album was a standout. Then again, I also didn't like what I heard from Lemonade either.

And 7 Years somehow got nominated for best song. Just another year of Grammys you-know-what.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Since when do metal fans care about the Grammys? I thought that died out the year Steely Dan won best Heavy Metal album.

we gave up when jethro tull won a few years ago

also it was the pregrammys and those do not rely count

 

[Acadmus]

I looked at the nominee list and saw that a two year old Bieber album was nominated. Think that pretty much sums up the Grammy's. Catered to filthy commoners who don't know music outside of their local top 40 station.

I doubt the Grammys are even THAT connected to public opinion. The nominees are likely drawn from whomever the trades are talking about, and the winners determined by whichever record execs lobby hardest (with the most gifts) for their act just like the Oscars.

 

[Teemu]

we gave up when jethro tull won a few years ago

also it was the pregrammys and those do not rely count

Whoops, got my jazzy rock acts mixed up

 

[Voight]

Chance shouldn't of came away with that many Grammys, but it just goes to show you the voters love stories like his.

 

[Pilky01]

A generation of kids grew up knowing the Grammys were useless because of this classic scene.

I can't understand why the Grammys (and all awards shows, which not even a decade ago everyone mostly dismissed as trivial hollywood circlejerks) have been given so much more gravitas and significance than they ever deserved. Hell when I was a teenager if my favourite band won a Grammy I was ****ing mortified because that meant they weren't cool anymore.

 

[John Price]

This thread was made in 2017 and in 2020 3 years later there is STILL a debacle

The CEO was forced out and said on TV that the whole thing's rigged

Then Taylor Swift dropped out

What a disaster

 

[Teemu]

I'm shocked, shocked!

Well not that shocked

 

[kingsholygrail]

A generation of kids grew up knowing the Grammys were useless because of this classic scene.

I can't understand why the Grammys (and all awards shows, which not even a decade ago everyone mostly dismissed as trivial hollywood **********s) have been given so much more gravitas and significance than they ever deserved. Hell when I was a teenager if my favourite band won a Grammy I was ****ing mortified because that meant they weren't cool anymore.

I still don't understand why a music award show has so little music in it. They make everyone play an iTunes sample of their songs.

 

[Jumptheshark]

This thread was made in 2017 and in 2020 3 years later there is STILL a debacle

The CEO was forced out and said on TV that the whole thing's rigged

Then Taylor Swift dropped out

What a disaster

is it really sad self made drama queen Swift dropped out

 

[Hasbro]

Metallica sounds better when their mics don't work

No one is going to share a Metallica MP3 if there's no sound.

 

[SenzZen]

You beat Dexy's Midnight Runners.