Grammys increase GF Nominees from 5 to 8

[The Bling 12,253]

7 minutes ago, Thomas P said:

What about Random Access Memory vs Red

I have a theory that when they award an artist every time they release an album, they decide not to give them any Grammys on their next album, either to "spice things up" or because they get called out

[PlasticHo 735]

2 hours ago, The Bling said:

Oh wow, one exception from 5 years ago

Ed Sheeran didn't even make it to the final list of nominees for his last album. Arcade fire winning their year.. Babel won album of the year.

[PlasticHo 735]

17 minutes ago, The Bling said:

I have a theory that when they award an artist every time they release an album, they decide not to give them any Grammys on their next album, either to "spice things up" or because they get called out

I definitely believe this which is why I was shocked by Adele winning again for 25.

[Eddie 2,518]

1 hour ago, Bradley said:

4:44 was nominated for Album of the Year and it wasn't popular nor basic.

And did it win??? Did it f*cking win??? NO IT DID'NT F*CKING WIN!!! Don't remind me of the mess that was this years grammys

[memomemome 1,478]

To make room for more female? I guess this is to make room for Taylor Swift reputation 

But please no. Please 

Not a surprise anyway... Giving grammy history... Yah you know what will happen.

I guess what happen is older academy member complain why grammys so urban. We want more country or we want to give Taylor swift more awards or make room for commercially successful album such as frozen soundtrack

[Mr S 8,691]

2 hours ago, Arturo said:

So basically if they would have implemented this a year earlier Joanne would have been an AOTY nominee and MR a SOTY nominee. Wow we lost.

They made this rule change BECAUSE Joanne/MR didn't get nominated. Like how she caused them to change the BNA rule

[zakariah 11,722]

This means they're probably gonna nominate Reputation & Everything is Love jsdfjsds

[MeloArtDramaPop 789]

Ironic with the number of quality albums this year

but what they should really do though is to award quality, why cant they have a regulation on that.

[MeloArtDramaPop 789]

Still cant believe that they nominated Melodrama for AOTY and not nominate it for best pop vocal album, like by just being the only pop album in aoty should mean that it is the best pop album

[Mr S 8,691]

54 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

This means they're probably gonna nominate Reputation & Everything is Love jsdfjsds

Reputation was getting nominated even if they decreased the slots to 3. Its the biggest album by far and got good reviews and its by a talented big name artist.

[Anderson123 38,754]

50 minutes ago, MeloArtDramaPop said:

Still cant believe that they nominated Melodrama for AOTY and not nominate it for best pop vocal album, like by just being the only pop album in aoty should mean that it is the best pop album

Same. Melodrama deserved Album of the Year but could've easily taken Best Pop Vocal album, it was way better than Divide and I wouldn't have been mad at all had it won over Joanne because I actually loved it way more.

[Thomas P 18,479]

5 hours ago, The Bling said:

I have a theory that when they award an artist every time they release an album, they decide not to give them any Grammys on their next album, either to "spice things up" or because they get called out

Adele annoyingly disproves it

[freebit 6,240]

I feel like they're doing this as to give a chance to more women artists (keyword chance), & lowkey after Ed Sheeran not getting nominated. I'm over them. Even the Oscars have more integrity because I know the Oscars would never feel obligated to give Star Wars big nominations and wins, yet the Grammys tends to be such a big popularity contest with random nods and wins for hyped indie artists sprinkled in to give themselves the illusion of credibility. 24K Magic, 1989, and 25 winning was some BS. It's like if The National Book Awards regularly awarded James Paterson or Nicholas Sparks. All awards are a stupid game of politics & campaigning, but the Grammys are The Worst by far. 

[StrawberryBlond 14,921]

Very interesting. I don't mind if this results in more disappointment by our faves getting more nominations just to lose them (as weird as that sounds). I just want them to get recognised, get more promotion. That alone can be great for sales and just being noticed, particularly if they haven't sold much or their album has been under the radar. And if they don't win, they can even more attention for being a "wronged darling." I just don't want this to be used purely to appease those who complained about a lack of females and fill up the new 3 spaces with women because that'll be so obvious and goes against the notion of awarding the best art. I want more women to be nominated but if so, I want them to be just as good as the men. Tokenism to tick boxes is not cool.

16 hours ago, freebit said:

I feel like they're doing this as to give a chance to more women artists (keyword chance), & lowkey after Ed Sheeran not getting nominated. I'm over them. Even the Oscars have more integrity because I know the Oscars would never feel obligated to give Star Wars big nominations and wins, yet the Grammys tends to be such a big popularity contest with random nods and wins for hyped indie artists sprinkled in to give themselves the illusion of credibility. 24K Magic, 1989, and 25 winning was some BS. It's like if The National Book Awards regularly awarded James Paterson or Nicholas Sparks. All awards are a stupid game of politics & campaigning, but the Grammys are The Worst by far. 

Good point, even though I still put a bit of stock in the Grammys if only as a promotional tool and to look good to other fanbases who give your fave flak (we at GGD know how much the "at least Gaga's won Grammies" reply is used to hit back at KatyKats because it's something they can't answer other than a sheepish "as if Grammies matter anyway"). You're right, the Oscars would never feel obligated to nominate a film just because it was a smash hit and certainly not feel obligated to let it win. I can't speak for the Emmies and Tonies but I assume they'd do the same. The Grammies for some reason, really seem to fall back on the foolproof option of the albums that got the most sales. If they apparently love music, why is it mostly just the biggest albums of the year in the big categories? The only time little known albums and artists get nominated is in the "lesser" categories like reggae, classical and childrens. And that's probably only because there's an extreme lack of anyone to nominate in these categories in the first place so they need someone to make up the nominations.