Rip_City
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Oh, come on. He's one of the performers of all time.
The Grammy Awards Thread
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Fleetwood-Matt
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Spending all night celebrating Beyoncé but not giving her any of the main 3 awards is just so insulting
TenderLovingKiller®
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You forgot the quotation marks around “Performer”. Khalid’s Rolodex might as well been nominated.
Aron
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It’s nothing new, but it definitely felt like they were spreading the wealth this year with the awards.
waruv
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Can’t say it was my guess but honestly really happy for him. As dumb as it is that Beyoncé and Kendrick keep getting bypassed (honestly would’ve preferred one of them) Harry’s House is quite a good album. There have been far worse winners.
TrainFan73
Frothy
Happy Cunnigham won.
TrainFan73
Frothy
The Time for Three wins in Classical are pretty cool too.
I think that’s always the issue with rap albums. The category win will always seem to voters like enough. Pop seems to never have that issue.
avecigrec
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Holy shit!
What?!
And here I spent my evening emailing lawyers, teachers and my son's mom instead of even watching them!
waruv
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Renaissance and Mr. Morale… are also much more intensive albums to digest, asking a lot of the listener. Harry is very easy to just listen and enjoy. You could say the same thing about rap vs pop as genre asks. It’s an unfair burden really.
TrainFan73
Frothy
Also happy for the Taj Mahal/Ry Cooder and Molly Tuttle wins. The Carrington and Samara Joy wins are cool too.
I'll also say that I would have been more concerned if Kendrick or Beyonce had won for (their - not necessarily in general) subpar albums.
I'll also say that I would have been more concerned if Kendrick or Beyonce had won for (their - not necessarily in general) subpar albums.
avecigrec
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TrainFan73
Frothy
And looking at the list, are we really surprised that Harry won?
TenderLovingKiller®
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Harry Styles makes music I forget about the second it ends.
avecigrec
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I'm sure I have heard his music, but I couldn't pick it out of a line-up.
mediocre album (95% of the time by a white guy but lets ignore that for now) beats out more influential and critically acclaimed albums (that also happen to be made by non white people) just by being the "safe vote"... lets face it, if it wasn't harry it would have been adele, and if it wasn't adele it would have been fucking coldplay...
honestly part of my gut kinda wanted bad bunny to win if just because it seemed to tick all the boxes (poppy, incredibly popular, critically acclaimed), but they were too scared to put a Spanish speaker at the top
honestly part of my gut kinda wanted bad bunny to win if just because it seemed to tick all the boxes (poppy, incredibly popular, critically acclaimed), but they were too scared to put a Spanish speaker at the top
TenderLovingKiller®
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waruv
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Totally your experience and fair but I don’t feel the same about either Fine Line or Harry’s House. If I’m being honest, I think if he came out of the
Indie sphere as opposed to boy band sphere folks here would be a lot kinder to his output. Not nearly as challenging or ambitious but some legit great tracks in there.
Edit: To be fair to the forum, HH was its 20th ranked album of 2022 and third among nominees, so maybe there is some love here
This I agree with almost entirely (well maybe not HH being mediocre but the rest). It’d have been an Adele or Brandi next.
If you want AotY it better be people pleasing…and if those people are old and white all the better
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TrainFan73
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I mean, I've tried to like Harry's music. It's just ... someone said something about someone's album being like staring at a beige wall for an hour... that pretty much describes it (despite the insane boredom that would cause me)... it's just okay... not gonna turn the station if it comes on, but not gonna seek it out.