My opinion on those Grammy nominations

        At this point I don’t really see a point of Grammys. You can predict to a degree what Pitchfork would place at their best of list at the end of the year. You can guess what movies will get more buzz during Oscars season. Even if some of the decisions are questionable there seems to be some reasoning behind who gets the award. With Grammys, especially this year, I can’t help but feel like they just drew a bunch of random names out of a hat.

    The absence of the Weeknd from the nominations is what most people are majorly  outraged this year. I’m not the biggest After Hours fan but including Blinding Lights in at least one of the categories seems so obvious that it makes omitting it feel purposeful. For the most part artists whining about not getting nominated is cringy as fuck but in Abel’s case it’s almost understandable. Absence of Fiona Apple from the Best Album category was a surprise as well, I kind of suspected a battle between her and Taylor on this one.

     It’s hard to care about any of it though, after seeing Yummy being nominated for Best Solo Pop Performance. It just feels like an insult to everyone else, everyone who got nominated and everyone who didn’t. It’s one thing to nominate some mediocre song no one cares about but to choose a single that was internets laughing stock after it came out just shows how completely out of touch the Academy is. And it wasn’t even a big hit that just got trashed by critics, I have never seen anyone defend that song. It would be like they nominated Timberlake for Filthy.

     There were more strange decisions in that list but after seeing Yummy there it just meant nothing. I’m glad the Best Rock Album category is looking better this year. It was nice to see Poppy in the metal category and I found it really funny that Kanye still got nominated even after throwing one of his Grammys into the toilet and pissing on it. Also it’s very Kanye that he did it and still applied so he can get a new one.

    I had some hope for the Grammys because the last year wasn’t that bad and I agreed with a lot of their picks. But each time the Academy does something right, they have to fuck it up again next year. It’s a matter of time before the Grammys share the fate of the VMAs and everyone just stops caring about them entirely.