The 2018 Grammy's
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I am not an avid fan of award
shows but I am a huge fan of music as a whole. I think I have a good gage of
the general scene as well as my personal favourite artists. I’m sure I don’t
lack bias however I am backed up by thousands of angry twitter users.
The Grammys this year where a
sham.
SZA is a new artist on the
scene this past year, making huge headlines for huge sales and huge praise. She
was the most nominated female artist this year at the Grammy’s with up to 5
nominations and was expected to take a few home. However, my girl was robbed.
She won NO Grammys, not even 1. Not even the best New Artist, instead it was
given to a girl who had been on the scene for at least 2/3 years.
I am not upset, I’m just
disappointed.
In addition, Childish
Gambino’s album was critically acclaimed, nominated for 5 Grammy's, praised for being daring and
different form many of the R&B albums out there. It was soulful, it was
moving and honestly it was brilliant. Especially the main single that caught
traction, Redbone. My man Childish went home with only 1 award. When songs that
lack meaning such as Bruno Mars, That’s What I Like, winning. Yes, it is a tune
but still.
The third victim of the
Grammys was Lorde. Inarguably, the girl knows how to write a hit. It’s
personal, it’s deep and its performed amazingly over a catchy beat. She was up
for best album this year, an album that she spent years working on. It had a
huge hit, Green Light, and was such a great album. “How did she do?” You ask.
No where near as well as she should have.
What made it all worse? When
the chief organiser made the statement that ‘females need to step up’ because
males took the majority of awards.
Firstly, how dare he think that the Grammys are actually an objective
measure of musical excellence? I don’t know who died and made him king but I’m
not having that. So many artists out there are too small to get recognised in
the first place, it doesn’t mean they are any worse than those who have made it
in the charts.
Secondly, we all know that
female musicians are always pulling their weight. If we look at the charts we
always see the big female talent up there, but for some reason this guy must
have been blind or something.
I think everyone should keep
in mind that music awards really, at the end of it all, do mean nothing. Being
recognised as talented is a compliment but should not be the sole basis in
which talent is judged. It is simply the judgement of, what I imagine to be, a
few old men who think their opinions matter.
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Thank you so much