Wednesday, March 16, 2011

More Grammy's

This has been the most contentious post-Grammy's ever.  A music exec took out a full page in the NY Times decrying the Grammy's for passing up big name Pop acts.

"A veteran music executive has criticised the Grammy Awards in a full-page advert in the New York Times.
Steve Stoute said Grammy voters had "lost touch with contemporary popular culture" by snubbing artists like Eminem and Justin Bieber."- from Huffington Post


  Read between the lines and he was basically saying that they should have given Eminem and the Justin Bieber an award over the Arcade Fire and Esperanza Spalding.
Pop acts get their just reward at every music awards show other than the Grammy's.  But the latter play it more highbrow.  That's why a Spalding and a Herbie Hancock will always win over a Kanye West.
I'm not big on some of the awards they give out every year.  Paul McCartney got one for a live version of "Helter Skelter", and I wonder wtf?
But next year is setting up for a showdown between the conservative Grammy voters and the younger ones.
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