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Re: Music Exec Slams Grammys in NY Times for Snubbing Eminem, Justin Biebe
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veteran music executive has lambasted the Grammy Awards as "a series of hypocrisies and contradictions," in a full-page New York Times advertisement that ran a week after last Sunday's annual ceremony.
Steve Stoute's open letter to Grammy organizers ripped the organization and its 12,000-odd voters for snubbing Eminem and Justin Bieber at this year's ceremony, as well as Eminem and Kanye West at past events.
"Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture," wrote Stoute, who is currently CEO of the marketing company Translation.
"Unfortunately, the awards show has become a series of hypocrisies and contradictions, leaving me to question why any contemporary popular artist would even participate."
Grammys 2011: Winners, Photos, Videos and More
Eminem, this year's leading contender, lost in most of the major categories for which he was nominated. Two-time nominee Bieber went home empty-handed and disappointed. Both West and Eminem have lost the coveted album of the year race multiple times.
We must acknowledge the massive cultural impact of Eminem and Kanye West and how their music is shaping, influencing and defining the voice of a generation," Stoute wrote.
As for Bieber, he wrote, "How is it that Justin Bieber, an artist that defines what it means to be a modern artist, did not win Best New Artist?" (That award went to singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding.)
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Stoute noted a connection between performers and winners, citing Arcade Fire's surprise album of the year win just after they had finished their performance.
"Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation?"
There was no immediate reaction from the Recording Academy. Last Sunday's show, despite or because of the shocks, was the highest rated in a decade.
Re: Music Exec Slams Grammys in NY Times for Snubbing Eminem, Justin Biebe
All of these award shows have become a joke.
Everybody knows Recovery should've won album of the year. Just like everyone knows that The Dark Knight should've won Best Picture at the Oscars. This year it'll probably be All The King's Men, which NO ONE watched, when it should be True Grit or Inception.
It's just become a joke.
It's like there is some war going on between these fuckin' post-age hipsters in music & movies that ONLY want to acknowledge these indie, low-budget movies/albums, even when they fuckin' suck just as an 'F U' to anything that's actually popular, has some backing... well Em is good... so what, fuck him anyways.
That's really how it comes across.
Re: Music Exec Slams Grammys in NY Times for Snubbing Eminem, Justin Biebe
sorry my reference was to the mtv awards, gnr got snubbed twice in 1989
Best Group Video
Fine Young Cannibals — "She Drives Me Crazy"
Guns N' Roses — "Sweet Child o' Mine"
Living Colour — "Cult of Personality"
Traveling Wilburys — "Handle with Care"
Best Stage Performance in a Video
Bobby Brown — "My Prerogative"
Def Leppard — "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Guns N' Roses — "Paradise City"
Living Colour — "Cult of Personality"
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Re: Music Exec Slams Grammys in NY Times for Snubbing Eminem, Justin Biebe
Cult of Personality is pretty awesome though
