#scammys

[joesalw]

Not her coming out with an album with a long ass title. She wants to be Lana so bad. SZA was robbed for AOTY, Kelly Clarkson was robbed for best pop VOCAL album (I mean, c'mon now).

Scammys are constantly snubbing Black creators in the major categories. Only 3 black women have won AOTY in the 66 years of the Grammys existence. Two of those albums were cover albums of mainly white acts ( Unforgettable...with Love by Natalie Cole and The Bodyguard Soundtrack by Whitney Houston). The last BW that won AOTY was Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" which won 25 YEARS AGO.Even Mariah Carey hadn't won this category. What baffles me the most is the fact that the most awarded artist in the Grammys history hadn't won a single one AOTY and only has 1 (ONE!) award from the big 4 (Record of the year, Song of the Year, Album of the year and best new artist). She'd won it for Single Ladies. Out of all the hit songs she has, that was the only one that got awarded (imo one of her worst songs).

Renaissance got snubbed last year. And this year we see a tendency of streaming artists (Ariana's newest song comes to mind first) following the Renaissance's sound and house music's becoming trendy again. The Grammy voters even said 'We didn't vote for Beyonce on AOTY because she's won too many already'. Too many my ass. This woman's won only one Grammy outside of the genre category. And the genre categories they put black and brown people in are truly outrageous. No matter what they do, no matter how many new sounds and sub genres they invent, they will always be boxed into R&B and Urban categories. I mean, her country song from 'Lemonade' album 'Daddy Lessons' got snubbed in the country category and got rejected a nomination for being 'not country enough'. Bitch, please. From the first five seconds it's obvious to even non-country listener that it in fact, is a country song. And people that vote for this stuff are supposedly professional musicians and music experts. These same people box The Weeknd's music into R&B categories when he's clearly making pop music.

Jay-Z's speech was just a cherry on top for me. After Swift in her acceptance speech said that " I want to say 'thank you' to the members of the recording academy for voting this way but I know that the way that the recording academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans" while smugly polishing the Grammy, this man went on stage to get his lifetime achievement thingy and completely obliterated the same institution that Swift was ass kissing just a few minutes prior. He went on and said: " We want y'all to get it right. At least get it close to right. And obviously it's subjective because it's music and it's opinion based. [About his wife] She has more Grammys than everyone and never won AOTY so even by your own metrics that doesn't work. Think about that: the most Grammys, never won AOTY. That doesn't work. Some of you are going to go home tonight and feel like you've been robbed. Some of you may get robbed, some of you don't belong in the category. *everyone gags* No, no. When I get nervous... I tell the truth. But outside of that, we got to keep showing up. And forget the Grammys for a second, just in life, you gotta keep showing up until they give you all those accolades you feel you deserve, until they call you chairman, until they call you a genius, until they call you the greatest of all time". To me that sounds like "POC have to work twice as hard to get half as far". Not a big Jay fan but the speech was great. I'm sure he got his ass whooped on the way home for saying that.

Then the Grammys have proven him right by celebrating white mediocrity by giving Midnights AOTY. The outrageous thing is, only three Black women have won AOTY, she now has four. And many talented black people don't have a single one. The bodies of work that transcend genres, cultures and languages. The bodies of work that have much better musical components and lyrical content. The bodies of work that can stand the test of times and sound fresh and new even 10 years after their release. Artists that aren't afraid to step out of their comfort zone, experiment with genres (Whatever Swift calls 'experiments' don't go outside of the pop genre (Country-pop (Red), synth-pop (1989, Lover), electropop (rep, Lover), acoustic pop and alt-pop (Folkmore)). Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, TLC, Missy Elliott, Usher, Kanye (his artistic side), Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, Frank Ocean, and many more black music creators deserve their flowers. They are the ones that are inventing new shit and setting trends in various genres of music, they are the ones that put the most effort into their presentation and live performances. I'm sick and tired of the major showbiz institutions overlooking black, brown, asian, indigenous excellence. These people deserve to be rewarded for their hard work in the same capacity these institutions reward white (anglo) people. I'm sick of people celebrating white mediocrity and overlooking art of different cultures, ethnicities, races.

Now she's gonna be insufferable for at least another year. I've been listening and enjoying her music for the past 5-6 years (not a fan but a casual listener) for the lyrical content of her songs but she's not a poet in any way. Lana's been a staple for me in that regard. And the fact that she dragged her on stage to have that "Adele to Beyonce" moment just gave me the ick. I wouldn't be surprised if Swifties are taking Jay-Z's speech as a sub for TS's wins (haven't gone on twitter yet). I mean, if the shoe fits. Also wouldn't be surprised if she herself took it as a jab to her ego. She's also clearly drunk and possibly on some ❄️ (just my opinion). The only deserved AOTY she has is the Folklore one. And don't get me started on her EMMY win. The fact that a visual masterpieces like Lemonade and Homecoming lost to Carpool Karaoke is absolutely absurd to me. Also the fact that her visual album for her "Lion King" project wasn't even nominated when every single one of those in the category were comedy specials is especially infuriating (If anyone's interested, some of the music videos are up on Youtube). And Swift comes along and swoops up hers in a bullshit category with no actual nominees? Nah, things don't work like that. Or at least, they shouldn't.

Anyway, SZA and Lana were robbed. Victoria Monet's won Best New Artist, Miley got her first win, Phoebe Bridgers went home with the most wins of the night and everyone only talks about Taylor Swift. I'm patiently waiting for the tower to fall. She desperately needs a reality check. This drunkard didn't even acknowledge Celine Dion who handed her the award. I mean, she didn't even look at her. But proceeded to have a cringe and unnecessary handshake with Jack Antonoff. You're in a professional setting, behave like an adult and save those handshakes for the afterparty or do it behind the stage after giving a speech. She proceeded to drag Lana on stage to the point where she was trying not to fall. At this point I'm convinced that swifties have brainwashed her into the thinking that the nicest thing she can do for someone is grace them with her presence. Ana Clara's family serves as a great example.

Her hair was a miss, she looked like she was wearing a wedding gown and the black gloves didn't help. Her make up made her look old. Her accessories were excessive and tacky and it looked like she was also wearing hip pads, shoes were giving late 00s-early 10s. Overall, fire the whole styling team. You're a global superstar that's a billionaire and you look cheap as fuck.

TL;DR : She shouldn't have won. Lana and SZA were robbed. She once again made the night about herself and her narcissism peaked in the moments where she'd accepted her awards. Black creators are criminally overlooked. She ass kissed the grammy voters and Jay-Z shamed them just a few minutes later and was right. She needs to get rid of her stylist, hair stylist and make up artist. Another drunk award show. Beyonce should have at least one AOTY. Sick and tired of people celebrating white mediocrity in show business.

Sorry for the long ass paragraph, just felt like it was a safe space to vent 💜

you guys can vent all you want. I'm here for it🤏

[lanitadaily]

lana at the grammys 🤍

[felicityloves]

Lana after getting robbed :(

[lucky-joyous]

Snubbed.

Yet again.

[exeuphorialust]

Omfg, I can't-😭😭😭😭😭😭

Also

WHY DIDN'T SHE WIN?!?! I'M SO SAD AND I'M SO HEARTBROKEN FOR HER SHE DESERVES IT SO MUCH.

No hate or anything, but I felt so bad when Taylor dragged Lana up on stage like that. The devastation on her face really broke my heart.

[lanablvds]

Last time Lana lost a Grammy.. covid happened. Watch out-

[getaway-car-taylors-version]

now that i’m back-

NOAH KAHAN WAS ROBBED! ROBBERY OF THE CENTURY!!!!!

[pettydollie]

flowers got record of the year....???

atleast aoty didnt disappoint

[joesalw]

How the fuck Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black", Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of The Moon" (wasn't nominated), TLC's "Fan Mail", Janet Jackson's "Control", Whitney Houston's "Whitney Houston", Prince's "Purple Rain". MJ's "Bad", Mariah Carey's "Mariah Carey", "Daydream" and "The Emancipation of Mimi" all haven't won AOTY Scammy and MIDnights has? And people have the audacity to say that there's no bias in that institution. The Scammys are clearly political. The labels campaign their artists and if one label has multiple nominees in the category, they usually go for the one that's more politically grey ( usually white artists with no political messages in their music and their public persona) and are a safe bet with the gp (for example, Adele's "25" and Hary Styles's "Harry's House" won over "Lemonade" and "Renaissance" and all 3 artists are represented by Columbia Records. Both Lemonade and Renaissance have political messages in them (references to black culture and the visual album for Lemonade, celebration of the queer community and ballroom culture (also black) in Renaissance) and are more solid and cohesive albums as a whole as well as more stylistically diverse and innovative. Billie Eilish's debut album won over Lana del Rey's "Norman Fucking Rockwell!" (both are represented by Interscope). She is a Grammy Darling™ which she proved by ingratiating herself to the voters in her speech yet another time and she'll continue to do so for as long as it works despite multiple artists calling the institution out, boycotting the ceremony and refusing to submit their work.

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[lanitadaily]

did you know?

[bad-wolf-circe]

also sza winning best r&b song after talking about how she doesn't like the label r&b bc it pidgenholes black artists into a genre is kind of well. ironic

[felicityloves]

Lana before she was robbed </3

[and-loth-cat]

ok but WHAT THE FUCK??!

TAYLOR DESERVED THAT FUCKING GRAMMY

FUCK THE GRAMMYS!!

!!Taylor didn't write 10 minutes of lyrics for this bullshit!!

[trashblender]

Help! I'm being followed by bots! They found me! No way accounts with one pick of a hot model and nothing else gonna follow me and not be a scam!

[rasennoodle]

Idgaf about the Grammys bc they love to preach about how inclusive and diverse they are while still celebrating white mediocrity but I wake up to find that Harold Midward Styles wins album of the year beating the likes of Beyoncé and Bad bunny who both released fresh and creative work that makes them stand out from their peers who like to play it safe and release music of the same genre and style for their entire careers. Again the Grammys love to celebrate white mediocrity while preaching about how inclusive and revolutionary they are for not excluding artists of color in some categories. Like you’re gonna look me in the eye and tell me some Discount Bowie having 7-10 songwriters helping him write the album and still coming out with some bullshit about side boob and cocaine wins over Bad Bunny who works his ass off as a producer AND writer and discusses the modern colonization of Puerto Rico in his album??? While still having songs about having 56 different Latina gfs and how one specific Latina has a nice fatty??? And still making it sound really good??? Having the versatility and duality of man that Goodwill Jagger can never achieve and he still doesn’t win outside of the Latin urban category????

[getaway-car-taylors-version]

last post then i’ll shut up BUT THIS WAS ME WHEN NOAH DIDNT WIN BEST NEW ARTIST