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[Meowster]

Metallica and Lady GaGa sure is going to be interesting..

 

[Aomber]

The Grammys already deserve all the shit they get, but if the Chainsmokers win best new artist over Chance the Rapper..

Yeah that's the one thing I'm super nervous about. I cannot stand the chainsmokers.

 

[Mau ®]

Not very excited but I'll watch.

Hoping Beyoncé takes it. Not because she should win, but because I'm afraid there will be a very, very serious backlash if she doesn't.

 

[Floridian]

Grammy Pre-show is up online now. Non-televised award wins in 30 minutes~

http://live.grammy.com/

 

[Mau ®]

The Chainsmokers are nominated for Best New Artist? But they've been around for years?

Even if the Grammy's excuse of them having a "breakout hit" last year, it still wouldn't make sense. Selfie was a huge hit years ago, "Roses" did very well too. Ugh these old white folks running the show I swear.

 

[LionPride]

The Chainsmokers are nominated for Best New Artist? But they've been around for years?

Even if the Grammy's excuse of them having a "breakout hit" last year, it still wouldn't make sense. Selfie was a huge hit years ago, "Roses" did very well too. Ugh these old white folks running the show I swear.

It's based off of mainstream success

Same reason Anderson .Paak is qualified as a new artist

 

[Mau ®]

It's based off of mainstream success

Same reason Anderson .Paak is qualified as a new artist

Like I said, "Selfie" was a very big hit. And "Roses" (their best song) did quite well. They were mainstream before "Closer".

 

[Floridian]

It's based off of mainstream success

Same reason Anderson .Paak is qualified as a new artist

Same with Chance too considering Acid Rap was in 2013. Coloring Book was his "breakout" project.

 

[LionPride]

Like I said, "Selfie" was a very big hit. And "Roses" (their best song) did quite well. They were mainstream before "Closer".

But not Grammy mainstream, whatever weird fuckin metric that is

Same with Chance too considering Acid Rap was in 2013. Coloring Book was his "breakout" project.

I ain't even wanna give myself a headache with that shit, but I guess it's because Coloring Book is able to be nominated for a Grammy while Acid Rap wasn't

 

[daffy]

whew people still willing to go to war over their favorite getting a fucking grammy win

yall aint changed

 

[Floridian]

Edit nvm.

J Hud & Justin Timberlake won something I believe.

 

[Crooked16th]

whew people still willing to go to war over their favorite getting a fucking grammy win

yall aint changed

For the rest of our lives we will have to hear how 1989 "Stole" album of the year from To Pimp A Butterfly.

 

[LionPride]

For the rest of our lives we will have to hear how 1989 "Stole" album of the year from To Pimp A Butterfly.

I mean, it didn't deserve it. Shit I would have been fine if Sound & Color won because that album was flames

But a decent to good album in 1989 won over two great albums

 

[Floridian]

Bowie won his 2nd grammy, non-televised. Thought he would have more than that tbh.

 

[Majmun]

Beyoncé won Best Video for Formation

here they come

 

[Koodo]

Formation has kinda swept every award in the past year hasn't it.

 

[Floridian]

Best Music Video:
"Formation" — Beyoncé
"River" — Leon Bridges
"Up & Up" — Coldplay
"Gosh" — Jamie XX
"Upside Down & Inside Out" — OK Go

Best Music Film:
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead — Steve Aoki
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years — (The Beatles)
Lemonade — Beyoncé
The Music Of Strangers — Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry — (Various Artists)

 

[MANUELF]

Beyonce won her grammy now she can be happy and lose all the other ones

 

[Majmun]

Formation has kinda swept every award in the past year hasn't it.

It has

AICE Awards: Best Music Video - Formation
BET Awards: Centric Award - Formation
BET Awards: Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Award - Formation
BET Awards: Video Of The Year - Formation
Cannes Lions Entertainment for Music Awards - GRAND PRIX: Excellence In Music Video - Formation
Clio Awards: Innovation and Creative Excellence - Formation
Grammy Awards: Best Video - Formation
Ireland Kinsale Shark Awards: Best Direction - Formation
Ireland Kinsale Shark Awards: Best International Music Video - Formation
London International Awards: Best Direction - Formation
London International Awards: Best Music Video - Formation
MTV Video Music Awards: Best Choreography - Formation
MTV Video Music Awards: Best Cinematography - Formation
MTV Video Music Awards: Best Direction - Formation
MTV Video Music Awards: Best Editing - Formation
MTV Video Music Awards: Best Pop Video - Formation
MTV Video Music Awards: Video of the Year - Formation
NAACP Awards: Video of the Year - Formation
Soul Train Music Awards: Song of the Year - Formation
Soul Train Music Awards: Video of the Year - Formation
UK Music Video Awards: Best Styling - Formation
WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards: Best International Video - Formation

 

[botty]

Congrats to the older Ariana for winning her grammy.

 

[TheBowen]

Hope the tribe and chance performances are good. Worried about the tribe one because it's probably going to be that PAAK song that's the worded one.

 

[Mau ®]

How you not gonna give Lemonade best music film?

 

[Koodo]

Lemonade film was snubbed over best televised musical at the Emmy's too, for... James Corden.

 

[Tall4Life]

Hope the tribe and chance performances are good. Worried about the tribe one because it's probably going to be that PAAK song that's the worded one.

From the schedule leak, it looks like it's going to be all Tribe songs. Movin Backwards, We the People, and Award Tour.

 

[Floridian]

Best Dance Recording:
"Tearing Me Up" — Bob Moses
"Don't Let Me Down" — The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya
"Never Be Like You" — Flume Featuring Kai
"Rinse & Repeat" — Riton Featuring Kah-Lo
"Drinkee" — Sofi Tukker

Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Skin — Flume
Electronica 1: The Time Machine — Jean-Michel Jarre
Epoch — Tycho
Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future — Underworld
Louie Vega Starring…XXVIII — Louie Vega

 

[WaffleTaco]

People who say Views isnt good, i feel like they havent even listened to it

It's not a good album, it's average and bloated as hell. Critics didn't even like it. The only reason it got nominated was because of it being so commercially successful. Same with Bieber and Adele.

 

[Junior Asparagus]

It's not a good album, it's average and bloated as hell. Critics didn't even like it. The only reason it got nominated was because of it being so commercially successful.

It's kind of funny that the Oscars get flak because they don't nominate the most commercially successful films, while the Grammys get flak because they do.

 

[jett]

It's kind of funny that the Oscars get flak because they don't nominate the most commercially successful films, while the Grammys get flak because they do.

Oscars being like the Grammys would be the equivalent of Bayformers getting a best picture nod.

 

[Floridian]

Looks like Pop Vocal won't be televised but Urban & Rap album will be.

 

[WaffleTaco]

It's kind of funny that the Oscars get flak because they don't nominate the most commercially successful films, while the Grammys get flak because they do.

The Oscars are actually treated with respect to an extent, meanwhile the Grammy's are treated like a joke. The problem with the Grammy's is because if they went the artistic route, no one would watch.

 

[Aomber]

The Oscars are actually treated with respect to an extent, meanwhile the Grammy's are treated like a joke. The problem with the Grammy's is because if they went the artistic route, no one would watch.

Pretty much. That's why it's a really common misconception by the general public that the Grammys is "only for popular music", there's lots of awards that are absolutely not pop related at all, but understandably they have to cater to pop music for the televised section if they want people to watch.

 

[Floridian]

Best Country Album:
Big Day In A Small Town — Brandy Clark
Full Circle — Loretta Lynn
Hero — Maren Morris
A Sailor's Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Ripcord — Keith Urban

 

[Vazduh]

Lemonade film was snubbed over best televised musical at the Emmy's too, for... James Corden.

James Corden?! Mess.

 

[WaffleTaco]

Pretty much. That's why it's a really common misconception by the general public that the Grammys is "only for popular music", there's lots of awards that are absolutely not pop related at all, but understandably they have to cater to pop music for the televised section if they want people to watch.

Wish people would realize this.

Best Country Album:
Big Day In A Small Town — Brandy Clark
Full Circle — Loretta Lynn
Hero — Maren Morris
A Sailor's Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Ripcord — Keith Urban

I kind of feel like it's disingenuous to put an AOTY nominee with the other counterparts of it's genre. Either it wins it's genre due to obviousness or it shouldn't have been nominated either.

 

[DarkWish]

My favorite music group Pentatonix just won their third Grammy! They are now 3 for 3, which is amazing to me.

 

[MANUELF]

Looks like Pop Vocal won't be televised but Urban, Country & Rap album will be.

They did the same last year when Taylor won it and she won AOTY too, this seems real good for Adele chances

 

[royalan]

Somebody just walked the red carpet in a Make America Great Again dress.

 

[Floridian]

Actually nvm about my Country album statement since that just happened too. Only Rap and Urban will be televised.

Somebody just walked the red carpet in a Make America Great Again dress.

Yikes.

 

[Koodo]

Well.

 

[LionPride]

Its a look

 

[SilentSoldier]

What's the deal with some of these? Why do you need a dozen people to write a song?

If I'm not mistaken, if the song contains a sample of another song, they put the songwriters of the original song in as well

 

[royalan]

But like,

Who is it though?

 

[llehuty]

Well.

Unless she wants to get those 5 minutes of fame for the wrong reasons? Ugh in any case.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Well.

 

[Floridian]

Best R&B Performance:
"Turnin' Me Up" — BJ The Chicago Kid
"Permission" — Ro James
"I Do" — Musiq Soulchild
"Needed Me" — Rihanna
"Cranes in the Sky" — Solange

Best R&B Song:
"Come and See Me" — J. Brathwaite, Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib, songwriters (PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake)
"Exchange" — Michael Hernandez & Bryson Tiller, songwriters (Bryson Tiller)
"Kiss It Better" — Jeff Bhasker, Robyn Fenty, John-Nathan Glass & Natalia Noemi, songwriters (Rihanna)
"Lake By the Ocean" — Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
"Luv" — Magnus August Høiberg, Benjamin Levin & Daystar Peterson, songwriters (Tory Lanez)

Best Rap Performance:
"No Problem" — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
"Panda" —Desiigner
"Pop Style" — Drake Featuring The Throne
"All The Way Up" — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared
"That Part" — ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West

 

[Biff]

Is there a schedule posted for when in the evening each performance is happening?

I just want to see Daft Punk lol.

 

[LionPride]

No Problem ain't even the most hype song off the album god damn

 

[Floridian]

Best Rap/Sung Performance:
"Freedom" — Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar
"Hotline Bling" — Drake
"Broccoli" — D.R.A.M. Featuring Lil Yachty
"Ultralight Beam" — Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream
"Famous" — Kanye West Featuring Rihanna

Best Rap Song:

"All The Way Up" — Joseph Cartagena, Edward Davadi, Shandel Green, Karim Kharbouch, Andre Christopher Lyon, Reminisce Mackie & Marcello Valenzano, songwriters (Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared)
"Famous" — Chancelor Bennett, Ross Birchard, Ernest Brown, Andrew Dawson, Kasseem Dean, Mike Dean, Noah Goldstein, Kejuan Muchita, Patrick Reynolds, Kanye West & Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Rihanna)
"Hotline Bling" — Aubrey Graham & Paul Jefferies, songwriters (Drake)
"No Problem" — Chancelor Bennett, Dwayne Carter & Tauheed Epps, songwriters (Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz)
"Ultralight Beam" — Chancelor Bennett, Kasseem Dean, Mike Dean, Kirk Franklin, Noah Goldstein, Samuel Griesemer, Terius Nash, Jerome Potter, Kelly Price, Nico "Donnie Trumpet" Segal, Derek Watkins, Kanye West & Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream)

 

[Bronx-Man]

I can't think of anyone that was bumping Chance's album a week after it dropped.

 

[Meowster]

Solange won an award? Awesome!