The Grammy Awards.
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With all of the hoopla and theatrical bombasity of the awards.. Beyonce, Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars .. by far the highlight to me was the searing rendition of the blues classic Born Under a Bad Sign by Gary Clark Jr. and William Bell.. presented simply under a single spot light, without glitz or props. It was mesmerizing and amazing.
Grammy Awards switch to online voting and changes album of year rule
Mesfin Fekadu, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 01:33 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 01:49 PM EDT
NEW YORK — The Grammy Awards are transitioning to online voting and have updated rules for its top category, album of the year.
The Recording Academy announced new changes Wednesday, including its official switch to online voting for its 13,000 members. Voting for the 2018 Grammy Awards will take place in the fall and will include songs and albums released between Oct. 1, 2016, and Sept. 30, 2017.
Bill Freimuth, the academy’s senior vice-president of awards, said the academy expects to attract younger voters and touring musicians who are away from home during voting season.
“It is something that has been long-desired, long-talked about and long-investigated,” he said of online voting, which comes a year after the Latin Grammys made the switch.
Freimuth said there were concerns about security issues, but added they have “done everything we can to make sure the integrity of the system will be preserved.”
Another major change is the addition of songwriters to the nominees for album of the year, which was previously reserved for artists, producers and engineers. However, all participants in the album, including featured artists, songwriters, producers and engineers, must now be credited with at least 33 per cent or more playing time on the album to be eligible for nomination. Prior to the new rule, all participants on an album would earn a nomination for album of the year even if they worked on one song.
The album of the year rule change would mainly affect pop, rap and contemporary R&B albums where producers typically vary throughout the project, as opposed to country and rock albums, where fewer producers are present.
Beyonce’s “Lemonade,” Drake’s “Views” and Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” — all nominees this year for album of the year — each had at least 20 producers credited. Adele’s “25,” which won the top prize in February, had 11 producers. The fifth nominee was country singer Sturgill Simpson, who produced his album by himself.
“Does participation on a single track on a 12- or 15-track album really signify that they really worked on the album? When it was put that way most people were saying, ‘No, not really,”’ Freimuth said.
If the new rule had been implemented at this year’s show, Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder wouldn’t have earned Grammys for their production work on Adele’s album, for example. Freimuth added that songwriters and producers who work on a big hit on an album could earn a nomination for record or song of the year for their song.
The new changes were approved last month by the Recording Academy’s board of trustees. Other changes include nomination review committees added to the rap, contemporary instrumental and New Age genres. The committees serve as an additional layer of checks and balances, and for rap, could prevent wins like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in 2014 over Kendrick Lamar, which were highly criticized. It could also allow rising acts to earn nominations over veteran performers like Eminem and Kanye West, who consistently earn nominations.
“We form these committees only when we hear from ... those genre communities (when) they feel like something’s wrong, or that our nominations could be better,” said Freimuth. “For rap, what they were finding was that ‘legacy’ artists, almost no matter what they released, they would get a nomination because of their name recognition and fan base.”
The rock, R&B and country genres are other genres that have nomination review committees.
The Grammy Awards have 83 categories. Nominees will be announced Nov. 28, and the 60th awards show will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York on Jan. 28, 2018.
Grammy Awards switch to online voting and changes album of year rule | Music | E
Mesfin Fekadu, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 01:33 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 01:49 PM EDT
NEW YORK — The Grammy Awards are transitioning to online voting and have updated rules for its top category, album of the year.
The Recording Academy announced new changes Wednesday, including its official switch to online voting for its 13,000 members. Voting for the 2018 Grammy Awards will take place in the fall and will include songs and albums released between Oct. 1, 2016, and Sept. 30, 2017.
Bill Freimuth, the academy’s senior vice-president of awards, said the academy expects to attract younger voters and touring musicians who are away from home during voting season.
“It is something that has been long-desired, long-talked about and long-investigated,” he said of online voting, which comes a year after the Latin Grammys made the switch.
Freimuth said there were concerns about security issues, but added they have “done everything we can to make sure the integrity of the system will be preserved.”
Another major change is the addition of songwriters to the nominees for album of the year, which was previously reserved for artists, producers and engineers. However, all participants in the album, including featured artists, songwriters, producers and engineers, must now be credited with at least 33 per cent or more playing time on the album to be eligible for nomination. Prior to the new rule, all participants on an album would earn a nomination for album of the year even if they worked on one song.
The album of the year rule change would mainly affect pop, rap and contemporary R&B albums where producers typically vary throughout the project, as opposed to country and rock albums, where fewer producers are present.
Beyonce’s “Lemonade,” Drake’s “Views” and Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” — all nominees this year for album of the year — each had at least 20 producers credited. Adele’s “25,” which won the top prize in February, had 11 producers. The fifth nominee was country singer Sturgill Simpson, who produced his album by himself.
“Does participation on a single track on a 12- or 15-track album really signify that they really worked on the album? When it was put that way most people were saying, ‘No, not really,”’ Freimuth said.
If the new rule had been implemented at this year’s show, Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder wouldn’t have earned Grammys for their production work on Adele’s album, for example. Freimuth added that songwriters and producers who work on a big hit on an album could earn a nomination for record or song of the year for their song.
The new changes were approved last month by the Recording Academy’s board of trustees. Other changes include nomination review committees added to the rap, contemporary instrumental and New Age genres. The committees serve as an additional layer of checks and balances, and for rap, could prevent wins like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in 2014 over Kendrick Lamar, which were highly criticized. It could also allow rising acts to earn nominations over veteran performers like Eminem and Kanye West, who consistently earn nominations.
“We form these committees only when we hear from ... those genre communities (when) they feel like something’s wrong, or that our nominations could be better,” said Freimuth. “For rap, what they were finding was that ‘legacy’ artists, almost no matter what they released, they would get a nomination because of their name recognition and fan base.”
The rock, R&B and country genres are other genres that have nomination review committees.
The Grammy Awards have 83 categories. Nominees will be announced Nov. 28, and the 60th awards show will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York on Jan. 28, 2018.
Grammy Awards switch to online voting and changes album of year rule | Music | E
Lowest ratings ever for the Grammys.
Ratings: Grammys Down Hard From 2017 To All-Time Low | Deadline
Ratings: Grammys Down Hard From 2017 To All-Time Low | Deadline
Alessia Cara responds to backlash over best new artist Grammy win: 'Not going to be upset about something I've wanted since I was kid'
Canadian Press
Published:
January 29, 2018
Updated:
January 29, 2018 2:41 PM EST
Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara, winner of the Best New Artist award, poses in the press room during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018, in New York.DON EMMERT / AFP/Getty Images
TORONTO — Canadian singer Alessia Cara is defending herself against negative comments over her Grammy Award win.
Cara won best new artist at Sunday’s show, which some social media users said wasn’t fair since she’s already well-established in the music scene.
Some wrote that the award should have gone to R&B singer SZA, who was also nominated in the category alongside Julia Michaels, Khalid, and Lil Uzi Vert.
Cara responded to the backlash on her Instagram account, writing that she didn’t ask to be submitted in the category and had “no control over” the outcome.
The Brampton, Ont., native said she’s “worked really hard” and was “not going to be upset about something I’ve wanted since I was kid.”
The 21-year-old added “there is a big issue in the industry that perpetuates the idea that an artist’s talent and hard work should take a back seat to popularity and numbers.”
“I will not let everything I’ve worked for be diminished by people taking offence to my accomplishments and feeling the need to tell me how much I suck,” Cara wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of herself in a room filled with balloons.
“Here’s something fun! I’ve been thinking I suck since I was old enough to know what sucking meant. I’ve beat you to it. And that’s why this means a lot to me.”
The singer behind the hits “Scars to Your Beautiful” and “Stay” added that despite her many insecurities, she’s been shown that her work is “worth something.”
“All of the years feeling like I wasn’t good at anything or that I was naive for dreaming about something improbable have paid off in a way that I have yet to process,” reads the post.
“I know it sounds cheesy and dumb but it’s the honest truth. Thanks to everyone who’s shown me kindness and support along the way. I’ll stop talking now.”
Alessia Cara responds to backlash over best new artist Grammy win: ‘Not going to be upset about something I’ve wanted since I was kid’ | Toronto Sun
Canadian Press
Published:
January 29, 2018
Updated:
January 29, 2018 2:41 PM EST
Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara, winner of the Best New Artist award, poses in the press room during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018, in New York.DON EMMERT / AFP/Getty Images
TORONTO — Canadian singer Alessia Cara is defending herself against negative comments over her Grammy Award win.
Cara won best new artist at Sunday’s show, which some social media users said wasn’t fair since she’s already well-established in the music scene.
Some wrote that the award should have gone to R&B singer SZA, who was also nominated in the category alongside Julia Michaels, Khalid, and Lil Uzi Vert.
Cara responded to the backlash on her Instagram account, writing that she didn’t ask to be submitted in the category and had “no control over” the outcome.
The Brampton, Ont., native said she’s “worked really hard” and was “not going to be upset about something I’ve wanted since I was kid.”
The 21-year-old added “there is a big issue in the industry that perpetuates the idea that an artist’s talent and hard work should take a back seat to popularity and numbers.”
“I will not let everything I’ve worked for be diminished by people taking offence to my accomplishments and feeling the need to tell me how much I suck,” Cara wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of herself in a room filled with balloons.
“Here’s something fun! I’ve been thinking I suck since I was old enough to know what sucking meant. I’ve beat you to it. And that’s why this means a lot to me.”
The singer behind the hits “Scars to Your Beautiful” and “Stay” added that despite her many insecurities, she’s been shown that her work is “worth something.”
“All of the years feeling like I wasn’t good at anything or that I was naive for dreaming about something improbable have paid off in a way that I have yet to process,” reads the post.
“I know it sounds cheesy and dumb but it’s the honest truth. Thanks to everyone who’s shown me kindness and support along the way. I’ll stop talking now.”
Alessia Cara responds to backlash over best new artist Grammy win: ‘Not going to be upset about something I’ve wanted since I was kid’ | Toronto Sun
I refuse to tune in the Grammys, Oscars, Eurovision Song Contest, lest they rot the transistors in the TV set.