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2017 Grammy Awards

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This is tonight…

Album of the Year:
Adele – 25
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Justin Bieber – Purpose
Drake – Views
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth

Song of the Year:
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Adele – “Hello
Mike Posner – “I Took A Pill In Ibiza”
Justin Bieber – “Love Yourself”
Lukas Graham – “7 Years”

Record of the Year:
Adele – “Hello”
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Lukas Graham – “7 Years”
Rihanna featuring Drake – “Work”
Twenty One Pilots – “Stressed Out”

Best New Artist:
Chance the Rapper
The Chainsmokers
Anderson .Paak
Kelsea Ballerini
Maren Morris

Best Solo Pop Performance:
Adele – “Hello”
Beyoncé – “Hold Up”
Justin Bieber – “Love Yourself”
Kelly Clarkson – “Piece By Piece” (Idol Version)
Ariana Grande – “Dangerous Woman”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey – “Closer”
Lukas Graham – “7 Years”
Rihanna featuring Drake – “Work”
Sia featuring Sean Paul – “Cheap Thrills”
Twenty One Pilots – “Stressed Out”

Best Pop Vocal Album:
Adele – 25
Justin Bieber – Purpose
Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman
Demi Lovato – Confident
Sia – This Is Acting

Best Alternative Album:
Bon Iver – 22, A Million
David Bowie – Blackstar
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

Best Rock Performance:
Alabama Shakes – “Joe” (Live From Austin City Limits)
Beyoncé featuring Jack White – “Don’t Hurt Yourself”
David Bowie – “Blackstar”
Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence” (Live on Conan)
Twenty One Pilots – “Heathens”

Best Rock Song:
David Bowie – “Blackstar”
Radiohead – “Burn the Witch”
Metallica – “Hardwired”
Twenty One Pilots – “Heathens”
Highly Suspect – “My Name Is Human”

Best Rock Album:
Blink-182 – California
Cage the Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty
Gojira – Magma
Panic! At the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
Weezer – Weezer

Best Metal Performance:
Baroness – “Shock Me”
Gojira – “Silvera”
Korn – “Rotting In Vain”
Megadeth – “Dystopia”
Periphery – “The Price Is Wrong”

Best Rap Performance:
Chance the Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz – “No Problem”
Desiigner – “Panda”
Drake featuring Jay Z and Kanye West – “Pop Style”
Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared – “All the Way Up”
ScHoolboy Q featuring Kanye West – “That Part”

Best Rap/Sung Performance:
Beyoncé featuring Kendrick Lamar – “Freedom”
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
D.R.A.M. featuring Lil Yachty – “Broccoli”
Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream – “Ultralight Beam”
Kanye West featuring Rihanna – “Famous”

Best Rap Song:
Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared – “All the Way Up”
Kanye West featuring Rihanna – “Famous”
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Chance the Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz – “No Problem”
Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream – “Ultralight Beam”

Best Rap Album:
Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody
DJ Khaled – Major Key
Drake – Views
ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo

Best R&B Performance:
BJ the Chicago Kid – “Turnin’ Me Up”
Ro James – “Permission”
Musiq Soulchild – “I Do”
Rihanna – “Needed Me”
Solange – “Cranes In the Sky”

Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Gallant – Ology
KING – We Are King
Anderson .Paak – Malibu
Rihanna – Anti

Best Folk Album:
Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent
Judy Collins & Ari Hest - Silver Skies Blue
Robbie Fulks - Upland Stories
Rhiannon Giddens - Factory Girl
Sierra Hull - Weighted Mind

Best Country Album:
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Brandy Clark – Big Day in a Small Town
Loretta Lynn – Full Circle
Maren Morris – Hero
Keith Urban – Ripcord

Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Flume – Skin
Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
Tycho – Epoch
Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
Louie Vega – Louie Vega Starring…XXVIII

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels
Andrea Bocelli – Cinema
Josh Groban – Stages Live
Willie Nelson – Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Barbara Streisand – Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway

Best Comedy Album:
David Cross – …America…Great…
Margaret Cho – American Myth
Tig Notaro – Boyish Girl Interrupted
Amy Schumer – Live At The Apollo
Patton Oswalt – Talking For Clapping

Best Spoken Word Album:
Amy Schumer – The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Carol Burnett – In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
Patti Smith – M Train
Under the Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Thomas Newman – Bridge of Spies
Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Revenant
John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – Stranger Things Volume 1
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – Stranger Things Volume 2

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Amy
Miles Ahead
Straight Outta Compton
Suicide Squad (Collector’s Edition)
Vinyl: The Essentials Season 1

Best Song Written For Visual Media:
Justin Timberlake – “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
Twenty One Pilots – “Heathens
P!nk – “Just Like Fire”
Skrillex and Rick Ross – “Purple Lamborgini”
Shakira – “Try Everything”

Best Music Video:
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Leon Bridges – “River”
Coldplay – “Up&Up”
Jamie xx – “Gosh”
OK Go – “Upside Down & Inside Out”

Producer of the Year:
Benny Blanco
Greg Kurstin
Max Martin
Nineteen85
Ricky Reed

Best Engineered Album:
Andrew Bird – Are You Serious
David Bowie – Blackstar
Bonnie Raitt – Dig In Deep
Prince – Hit N Run Phase Two
Sarah Jarosz – Undercurrent

Best Recording Package:
Rihanna – Anti
David Bowie – Blackstar
Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Reckless Kelly – Sunset Motel
Bon Iver – 22, A Million

#2

it would be pretty fun for the grammys to pull a 2014 and have sturgill win best album, but they’re most likely gonna be boring and predictable like usual and just give it to beyonce

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#3

Christ, even Beyoncé didn’t win.

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#4

I can mathematically prove that the Grammys are out of touch. Here are the albums that topped AOTY’s year end list aggregate since 2010 (in other words the critical consensus of the album being the best of that year), and in brackets how they performed in the Album of the Year category:

2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (-)
2011: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (-)
2012: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (Nominated)
2013: Kanye West - Yeezus (-)
2014: The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (-)
2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (Nominated)
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar (-)

Wins: 0/7
Nominations: 2/7

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#5

grammys = shit

who is really surprised though

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#6

I don’t know if I can say that the Grammys are out of touch; in order for them to be out of touch they’d have to at least have some semblance of focus on musical innovation. Honestly I don’t know a single person in real life who watches the Grammys that has a genuine interest in music—all they care about is celebrity culture. Funnily enough celebrity worship is much easier to monetize.

Most people don’t like being challenged—hell, myself included—and naturally nobody is going to tune into the Grammys to watch a bunch of goobers they aren’t familiar with; it’s all just quick easy entertainment with zero integrity. At least there’s communities and websites like this that actually celebrate music. It’s just a shame this type of appreciation doesn’t have any place with a wider audience.

…That said Adele winning over Beyoncé destroys whatever I originally thought the Grammys represented, so what the hell do I know.

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#7

I could forgive the Grammys if they were at least consistent, even consistently terrible. But take for example, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy not even being nominated for album of the year. It ticks all the boxes for both popularity and quality:

  • High sales
  • Popular, mainstream artist with hit singles on the Hot 100
  • High quality, critically acclaimed and loved by fans
  • Kanye had already received three nominations for Album of the Year before the album’s release.
  • Kanye is a high profile, famous celebrity.

Then they give Beck album of the year for Morning Phase which ticks none of the familiar Grammy boxes. I can never make sense of the Grammys.

#8

I think I read one time that the big art awards use a really strange voting process. They ask the voters to put down their top 3 favorites for each voting category, #1 being their favorite and number 3 being their third favorite. However, their first choice doesn’t actually get the most points, the third one does. They do this to create big upsets and headlines to keep it exciting every year. I think I read it in relation to the Oscars after the Lego Movie wasn’t even nominated for best animated film of the year, even though it was users’ and critics’ favorite animated film (which I was infuriated about, I love that movie). I think they only do this for select categories, not all of them, for that would be too many upsets and they would start to lose their audience and credibility.