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61st Grammy Awards |OT| Hosted by Alicia Keys - 8 PM EST/5 PM PST
- Thread starter Khaos Prime
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Can't judge Rap, Dance, been told by friends into rock over many years they can't judge Rock or Metal, etc. etc.
The criteria seems to be, in order, the 1) most commercially successful thing nominated that 2) is good. So reduce the Rap album nominees to Drake, Post, Cardi, and from there, the one that's the best. If I'm right on the criteria order, at least it feels like Cardi B was the right choice in that framework?
Justice for Push, justice for every nominee besides Justice, etc.
Woke up to Kacey winning and, for once, I ain't even mad at this choice. It's not my favorite Kacey album, but it is definitely her best. Well deserved!
But even under those criteria, Astroworld would have been just as valid and was the better album by far. At this point, they need to make a separate categoryry for Pop-Rap and Hip-hop/Rap since they always make the wrong decision when a semi-decent popular Pop-Album comes out.
Best Hip-Hop Album of the Year and Best Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Album of the Year. I'm okay with this.
Something else that was funny is "This Is America" wasn't nominated under the Rap Song of the Year but is clearly a rap song lol I don't get the Grammys at all.
Correct. They are up ever so slightly compared to last year. It's kinda weird since it aired in January last year (and was viewed by a total of 19.8 million viewers) to avoid competition from the Winter Olympics. But the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead was also on last night so that probably stole some viewers away.
https://tvline.com/2019/02/11/grammy-awards-ratings-2019-host-alicia-keys/
TV Line said:
Doing a cursory look, no one seems to know why Glover wasn't there... but a few others weren't either:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0b2dcab69acd
Why not accept it there and use the spotlight to ether them if he was critical of the awards?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0b2dcab69acd
Why not accept it there and use the spotlight to ether them if he was critical of the awards?
drake tried and they cut his mic off
just don't submit your music. but that might be a record labels doing
Well then the likes of Macklemore and Cardi B will continue to win these awards from more deserving artists.
It's a mainstream awards show. It's never going to be the be all end all. It's been dumb. These awards mean nothing to the people who actually know.
Sure fans will say this and it's true but to act like it doesn't have an effect on the psyche on artist's would be naive.
Grammy's shouldn't validate anyone's career but the fact of the matter is it does to an extent and it goes further than the performing artists but also all of the people behind the scenes who also put work into a project.
The large majority of rock bands and electronic acts that I listen to have and never will receive a single radio song. Fuck the Grammys and the oscars. You don't even know the judging criteria nor who is part of the panels. Who cares?
... I just told you who cares. One of my producer friends was crushed that his production didn't make it onto Cardi B's album since it's always been a dream of his to win a Grammy. These awards do matter to people regardless of what we fans think.
Jimmy Carter is trending and I was like OH NO, but then the news was just that he's now a 3-time Grammy winner for Spoken Word albums.
Well yea it probably matters to people behind the scenes I'm sure.
Honestly, this is the first Grammys in a long time were I've come away not angry at the album of the year
It still makes me laugh that President Carter, President Obama, President Clinton, and Hillary Clinton all are Grammy winners and Katy Perry still has nothing lol.
I don't agree — Dirty Computer was incredible. If anyone should have upset her, it should have been H.E.R.
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I guess getting BTS to appear didn't get all the tweens and fangirls to watch it.
Very solid show this year. I was pulling for Janelle with AOTY but, as someone who truly doesn't like country music, Golden Hour is a great album.
I do think the Grammys need to revisit how their categories are set up, how the voting works, etc. More than any other major award show. But this was a good show.
I do think the Grammys need to revisit how their categories are set up, how the voting works, etc. More than any other major award show. But this was a good show.
She'll never win a Grammy so this is the next best thing for her.