LA Times: "Beyoncé should never attend another Grammy Awards"

[COOOK 74,088]

"Beyoncé, the all-time leading Grammy winner, should never attend another Grammy Awards"

Excerpts of the article:

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"But the story the Grammys tells about popular music — tells us today and tells future generations examining the historical record — takes place in the major categories; that’s where the Recording Academy’s taste and value system come into focus.

And that taste, unlike Beyoncé’s music, is fundamentally conservative.

Not conservative in a political sense, of course: As an institution, the Grammys is as progressive — and eager to be seen as progressive — as any university or showbiz organization, which is why this year’s telecast opened with performances by Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar who sings and raps mostly in Spanish, and the folk-rock singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who was introduced by her wife and their two (very cute) kids."

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"One irony of Beyoncé’s loss in album of the year is that “Renaissance” might be the most historically minded project of all those nominated; as much as it’s a club record, it’s a work of scholarship about the shifting contours of Black and queer identity. But with its intricate weave of samples and interpolations, it’s also structurally daring in a way that obviously triggered the academy’s suspicions about “real music” — suspicions foreshadowed in the Grammys’ pretelevised ceremony when Beyoncé’s longtime collaborator The-Dream lost the songwriter of the year award to Tobias Jesso Jr., a more conventional tunesmith known for his work with Adele and Harry Styles.

It’s worth making a point here about methodology. All 11,000 or so of the academy’s voting members are allowed to vote in the Grammys’ four general categories of album, record and song of the year and best new artist. But “to ensure music creators are voting in the categories in which they are most knowledgeable and qualified,” as the academy rules put it, members can vote on only 10 of the dozens of more specific awards (such as R&B performance), and all 10 of those must be within no more than three genres.

This explains the cognitive dissonance stemming from the fact that Beyoncé is both the most-awarded artist in Grammys history and a trendsetter who keeps getting robbed. Specialists recognize her ingenuity and reward her for it where their votes are determinative; the electorate as a whole, though, either doesn’t care or doesn’t understand and so consistently rejects her in the top categories in favor of safer choices."

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"Less perniciously, simple politics is at play too. The academy rewards artists it knows, whether through business relationships or through a willingness to perform at its charity galas and appear on its TV shows. Carlile has done just about every one of those you can think of; Styles’ manager, who sat next to him during Sunday’s ceremony, is Jeffrey Azoff, whose father Irving is one of the most well-connected people in the music industry. Beyoncé, in contrast, doesn’t play much ball."

"And what of Beyoncé herself, who’s said that “Renaissance” is the first volume in a planned trilogy? Certainly, her career — including a world stadium tour set to launch in May — is proceeding just fine without having won what she deserves. But if she doesn’t need the Grammys, the Grammys need her: Overnight ratings for Sunday’s telecast were up 30% from 2022, a jump attributable at least in part to the suspense surrounding Beyoncé’s opportunity to break the all-time record.

More significant, the show needs a superstar whose ambition and adventurousness make her a beacon to other artists. Lose the trailblazers and you risk losing those who come behind them."

Full article here.

Edited February 7 by COOOK

[River 78,319]

[Monstermilo 1,957]

its giving FORCED

 

[NATAH 24,263]

is it really that serious?  this kinda stuff is what stops me from calling myself a beyonce fan

[Charmz 1,500]

I think all fandoms have a toxic side (lol), and I really just think we’re seeing the really toxic side of the Beyhive this week.

 

[Debithius 4,707]

It's just a statue, move on.

[Staryu17 4,646]

She has like 30 Grammys already?? That's already a huge achievement, right?

 

Edited February 7 by Staryu17

[Luke78619 21,950]

27 minutes ago, COOOK said:

 

"Beyoncé, the all-time leading Grammy winner, should never attend another Grammy Awards"

 

 how can they put this and expect me to take them seriously  

[Space Cowboy 10,592]

She has an unecessary amount of awards from them its silly, and her dad was in the grammy committee at one point or still is.. That tells me all I need to know about some of her wins. She's a queen but her Grammy count is a bit much imo

[tomdsgn 1,863]

39 minutes ago, COOOK said:

the suspense surrounding Beyoncé’s opportunity to break the all-time record.

I didn’t find out until the day after that this was even a thing 

[AkariGaga 724]

Artists like Bjork, Lana and even Miley have never won a Grammy.In fact , Bjork was nominated 16 times but never won.

Edited February 7 by AkariGaga

[Levine 16,443]

I agree and she should give back the ones won because of her father. 

 

[sara57 2,425]

Oh my God, the Carters payola in magazines is working extra times these days I see 

[Meat 18,616]

Yes, she shouldn’t attend and spare us the media propaganda from now on.

[Butters Stotch 3,512]

Hmmm, I'm honestly not sure if people watched the Grammys to see if Beyoncé broke the record. Did y'all watch the Grammys for that??