AND AWAY WE GO!! YES PEOPLE ARE CRYING FOUL THAT IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR (WHITE) ADELE) TO HAVE BEAT (BLACK) BEYONCE FOR WHATEVER AWARD BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE GET TOO MANY DAMN AWARDS.
Sorry didn’t watch your silly awards program, I don’t watch any of them because I dislike the Political soapboxes and yeah I’m still bitter that Jethro Tull beat Metallica so many damn years ago – PB/TK
Grammys, Don’t Hurt Yourself – By Carl Wilson
The morning after, here is my public entreaty to the voters of the Grammys: Please, please, please, stop doing this to Adele.
That is: If you really won’t be motivated by a deeper awareness, fairness, and responsibility for, in particular, black lives and culture, the motherlode of American popular music, arguably the major reason most of you have careers … Well, maybe you bunch of graying palefaces (from which I don’t exempt my middle-aging white self) might at least have pity on Adele and the other white artists you sometimes-justifiably love. When you over-reward them, they end up wearing the shame of your collective racial blinders. And by extension, America’s. Just as poor Adele did Sunday night, by winning.
Without that imbalance, it might not seem so obligatory for you all to be so directly political right now. Music manifestly doesn’t have to be dissident to be great music. But with that cultural skew, almost every second that it was less outspoken, the Grammys broadcast seemed like an effort to subdue and distract. Even when it was trying to do the opposite.
Consider Sunday afternoon, during the pre-show part of the Grammys that most people never see (but when the lion’s share of the awards are given). Comedian Margaret Cho, hosting, reacted to a powerful performance from the Alberta-based First Nation group Northern Cree together with Mexican singer Carla Morrison by praising the diversity of the music-industry awards: Casting side-eye on the Oscars, Cho predicted that no one ever would see the Twitter hashtag #GrammySoWhite.
Continue to slate.com article: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2017/02/the_2017_grammys_weren_t_fair_to_beyonc_or_adele.html
